HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—As the operation to clean up the Huntington Beach oil spill proceeds, county residents and visitors reflected upon the accident. The shore of Huntington Beach remains closed to the public with yellow caution tape, prohibiting beachgoers from crossing. Despite the tape, bystanders were observed walking through the water and sitting near the shoreline as if the oil contamination hadn’t occurred. Taylor Griffith, a photographer from Alhambra, California, spent three days on the coast of Huntington Beach and on the border of the Newport Beach River Jetties, where the beach reopened, capturing the progression of the oil spillage. “Sunday I was here and I went home and my feet were completely covered with black tar,” Griffith told The Epoch Times. “It was really bad, especially right here. The ride had gone out and there was a group of fish that were stuck in one of these puddles here.” Griffith …