Seeing the growth and participation in Laguna Beach’s KelpFest each year is like being a proud parent watching a toddler learn how to walk. It’s amazing that this entire festival – sprawling now from Main Beach across PCH to the street behind the library – began with one woman’s determination to reinstate kelp to Orange County’s waters.
It was a perfectly sunny day on Saturday with hundreds of milling fans and great education all around with KelpFest booths, professional painters, community murals in the making, and Nick I and the ADD band and World Anthem lending their local vocals to a great afternoon of song and dance. Congrats, KelpFest founders, for creating larger awareness every year.
The “Kelp Forest” at the Laguna Beach KelpFest
Painting projects at the KelpFest in Laguna Beach
Nick I and ADD perform to a packed crowd at KelpFest in Laguna Beach
The crowd dances to Nick I and ADD at KelpFest
Billy Fried, Founder of Laguna La Vida, chimes in with harmonica during the Nick I concert