We asked our photographers to pick their favorite images from August 2023, and here are some they selected.
Besides a rare tropical storm, August weather was almost great. Cool mornings and warm days were the norm for most of the month.
In Costa Mesa, the OC Fair ended its annual run, while around the county kids headed back to school.
The Register’s own beach reporter, Laylan Connelly, who has written about surfing over the past two decades, earned a place in the 2023 Surfers’ Hall of Fame, placing her hands in cement on the corner of PCH and Main Street in Huntington Beach.
Connelly wasn’t the only excitement in Huntington Beach – the US Open of Surfing drew big crowds for the week-long competition.
Water is always welcome in Orange County, and while Tropical Storm Hilary didn’t do much damage, it did deliver a lot of water. Coastal cities prepared with berms and the canyons and burn areas prepped with sandbags.
Over in Anaheim, Disneyland employees took to the Rivers of America before sunrise to compete in the annual Disneyland Resort Canoe Races. Team “DC Gorilla Oarfare” won the Fastest on the River award.
A few miles fro Disneyland, bull riders from across the country came to the Honda Center to compete during a stop on the Professional Bull Riders tour. The PBR is the largest bull riding league in the world, sanctioning hundreds of events every year in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Australia.
At the end of the month, tragedy struck in Trabuco Canyon when three people were killed and six more injured in a mass shooting at the family friendly biker bar Cook’s Corner.
Longtime patrons of Cook’s Corner held a prayer service for the victims of the shooting at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest a few days later.
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