Newport
Beach--Aerial Photo of Newport Beach,
California with Lido Island, McFadden Wharf - Newport Pier
and Balboa Bay Club Resort...The
recently renovated Balboa Bay Club Resort shown in the photo above
as the square complex with little white boats neatly lined up (smack
dab center & bottom of photo - notice the blue swimming pool in the
center of the complex surrounded by a square of buildings) features hotel rooms
and suites on the Newport Beach Bay adjacent to Pacific Coast
Highway. Balboa Bay Club is a fantastic place to get away and
relax. Vacations, celebrations and meetings are all fantastic
reasons to visit
Balboa Bay Club.
Seen in the photograph at is the McFadden Wharf which
popularly known as the Newport Pier. It includes a restaurant, beach
shops, surfing, bicycling, sunbathing and is home to the local Dory
Fishermen open air market where fresh catch-of-the-day is sold.
Newport Beach is a vacation paradise popularized in television shows
such as The OC. It embodies the lifestyle also made popular by
celebrities and athletes such as Dennis Rodman who left Newport and
moved next door to Huntington Beach, but is now back in the trendy
city with beautiful Fashion Island Shopping Center overlooking the
ocean, a large marina, many upscale restaurants and pleasure cruises
around the bay and to Catalina Island.
The
city is situated a short 10 minutes to John Wayne/Orange County
Airport, named for the Western film actor who lived in Newport
Beach. He is immortalized with a larger-than-life statue in the
center entry to the airport. Newport Beach and its villages and
towns that are operated within its bounds such as Balboa Island and
Corona del Mar, enjoys a Monet-style Impressionistic setting with
sailboats and yachts bobbing along the Newport Bay, framed by sites
such as the historic Balboa Pavilion. This is where Glenn
Miller and Big Band Era performers enjoyed their season in Southern
California's enchanted land, once the final destination for the
Pacific Electric Red Car that brought people from Los Angeles to
vacations and pleasure at the beach a one-hour ride away.
