FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11,2009
December 11, 2009 Reserve your personal Gondola Christmas Lights Cruise. Huntington Harbour lights up with themed decorations, part of a contest and fund-raiser each year to raise money. Now is the time to take a magical gondola ride at night. Gondolas depart from Peter's Landing on Pacific Coast Highway at Anderson, Huntington Beach, CA.
December 11, 2009 Upstream, band - at Mahe. Time: 8 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: 1400 Pacific Coast Highway, Seal Beach. Call: (562) 431-3022.
December 11, 2009 Have Another Monkey - at Tumbleweeds Bar & Grill (where food is served till midnight). 21094 S. Beach Blvd. Huntington Beach, CA. Call: (714) 960-2776
December 11, 2009 Nativity Pageant. Drive Through Nativity. Huntington Beach Drive-Thru Nativity Pageant only lasts for three days but the turn out is great for this popular annual religious event that celebrates Christmas in the parking lots and campus of First Christian Church in Huntington Beach, California. First Christian Church, 1207 Main St., Huntington Beach, CA. (714) 536-2589 6-9:30pm; 6-10 pm. Cost: Free.
December 11, 2009 Pianist Dean Rod - at Red Chair Lounge. Time: 9-11:30 p.m. Cost: $. Location: Hyatt, 21500 Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach, CA.
December 11, 2009 Snowflakes light up the Huntington Beach Pier and Main Street through New Year's Day. Approximately 84 artificial snowflakes strewn with twinkling lights adorn light downtown Huntington Beach. They are a delight to see. There are 48 on the pier and 36 stretching along Main Street from Pacific Coast Highway to Orange Avenue. Traditionally placed along Main Street and the Huntington Beach Pier, they are truly beautiful displays of holiday spirit in Huntington Beach. Watch the twinkling lights reflect on the Pacific Ocean waters below.
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BIRDS AT SHORELINE
Huntington Beach doesn't simply attract 11 to 15 million tourists each year. It also is an inviting place for large sums of birds.
Seagulls, terns, pelicans, snowy plovers and all sorts of local and migrating populations of feathered fowl visit the beaches and wetlands to feed, rest, and even make nests.
When visiting, just wander along the shoreline of Huntington Beach's near nine mile stretch to watch the birds dash back and forth along the sand, feeding as the ocean recedes.