Over 4,000 were baptized and publicly declared their faith in Jesus Christ at Pirate’s Cove in Newport Beach, the same historic baptism site during the Jesus People Movement in the 1970s Baptize ...

Except for one key location, Pirates Cove in Newport Beach, the site of countless baptisms by the beach for the real-life Jesus People. To Courtney, who as Laurie is baptized by Frisbee ...

But that’s not the case at tiny Pirates Cove, so there’s no obvious answer as to how the beach got its name. Get SFGATE's top stories sent to your inbox by signing up for The Daily newsletter ...