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PHOTOS: Kings Tides in Newport Beach

The highest tide of the year surfaced in Newport Beach on Sunday.

Sunday's Kings Tides --the highest tides that occur during the winter--raised docks, flooded beaches and filled the Upper Newport Bay to the edge of Back Bay Drive.

Sunday's tide also pushed surf to a sand berm at the Newport Pier Lifeguard Station and came close to several parked rescue vehicles. Sandy beaches along South Bayfront on Balboa Island looked more like a channel than a beach during the peek of the 6.5 high tide.

Paul Gallent, a boogie boarder from Newport Beach, put on flippers before stepping off the sidewalk at high tide into ankle deep water washing across the sand near the fish market.

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