Our favorite season, but far too short

What is it that makes everyone long for summer?

For kids, the answer’s all too easy: no school. But even once

you’ve entered the adult world, you still count down to those

precious three months when the days are longest, the sun is hottest

and a vacation is just around the corner.

Along the Orange Coast, these months are especially ripe for fun

and frolicking. This place was made for summer, for walks on the

beach, for leisurely meals on a restaurant patio or for a nap under

the shade of a favorite tree. Summer in Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa,

Newport Beach and Laguna Beach is brimming with things to do.

Some choices are obvious. Many more are known to just a few

devotees. All are core reasons why summer is our favorite season.

If only it were, as the classic surf movie portrayed it, endless.