Cooler temps make for quiet Memorial Day weekend

Mathis Winkler

With mostly cloudy skies and low temperatures over Memorial Day

weekend, things stayed fairly quiet down by the beaches Saturday and

Sunday.

But the crowds began to arrive Monday afternoon, as the sun broke

through.

“There are a lot of people on the beach for a Monday,” said Josh van

Egmond, a Newport Beach lifeguard.

He and his colleagues found a few missing children and returned them

to their parents and rescued a couple of people from the ocean.

“Nothing major,” van Egmond said.

Earlier during the day, small waves kept surfers away and only a few

beach goers had braved chilly water temperatures of 61 degrees.

“They’re not going very deep and don’t stay very long [in the water,]”

van Egmond said.

At Crystal Cove State Park, none of the parking lots filled up over

the weekend.

“I won’t say it was quiet,” said John Kalko, a park ranger, adding

that no problems occurred over the weekend. “But it was just a mellow

day.”

Police officers in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach, Orange County deputy

sheriffs and California Highway Patrol officers also experienced a quiet

Memorial Day weekend in the area, said officials for the departments.