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Spirituality and healthy communities grow in the gardens around Manteo The Peace Garden Project brings food, connectivity, yoga and wellness to youth and adults.

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Yoga instructor Maria Williamson leads yoga classes the first Sunday of every month at Beechland Farms. MAGGIE MILES

Growing mind, body and soul in the Peace Garden

By Maggie Miles

Correspondent

Peace Garden Project, a nonprofit based in Manteo, is on a mission to create a healthy community here on the Outer Banks. Organization founder Michelle Lewis believes that the key to a healthy community is accessibility. She wants to bring education and resources to help people better understand their neighbors, build bridges and strengthen their sense of social justice.

But in order to get there, she believes we also need to take care of ourselves physically.

“There’s a mind-body-spirit connection there,” Lewis says.

Through the Peace Garden Project’s many programs, the organization connects spirituality, environmental justice, food justice and cultural competence. One of their principal projects focuses on teaching these issues to high school and middle school interns. In doing this, they simultaneously show the students how to grow food and maintain gardens in backyards throughout Manteo, where families and individuals have volunteered their land to the program.

Peace Garden Project’s slogan is, “Growing food and healthy community.”

By “healthy community,” Lewis means recognizing people’s different religious and

spiritual beliefs and understanding that across these differences, we all share the same basic needs.

They started, naturally, with our most basic human need: food. Last year they gave away more than 150,000 lbs. of food to anyone in Dare County, no questions asked. No paperwork, no proof of income, just drive up and get your box of food. Like I said, Lewis believes in accessibility.

The next basic need the project addressed was physical activity. What better way to achieve that mind-bodyspirit connection than through yoga? And where better to do it than in their Manteo gardens. Starting this past May, they began offering free yoga sessions on Beechland Farm the first Sunday of every month and free meditation on the third Sunday of every month. Lewis believes yoga is a necessary resource that needs to be more accessible to everyone.

Yoga classes are taught by Maria Williamson, who donates her time to teach the classes so that they can keep them free of charge. She believes in what the Peace Garden Project is doing in the community in teaching people how to grow their own food.

How does yoga fit into that?

“Yoga is the garden,” she says. It’s a metaphor. “There’s the seed that’s within you, and you need to nurture it, water it, give

it sun and care for it, and then not only is there the growing in the actual literal physical garden, but also the growing out into the community, so that outreach is really beautiful.”

Lewis herself teaches the meditation class. In her former life, Michelle was a trained reverend from Yale Divinity School. In fact, Lewis was the first person of color to graduate from Yale University with Joint Master’s degrees from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Yale Divinity School (Master of Environmental Science/Master of Divinity).

She also holds a certificate in liturgy from Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the Arts and holds a Doctorate from Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

Her meditation certification came from a hospital she served as a chaplain.

Did we mention she holds a Certificate in Leadership, Organizing, and Action from the Harvard Kennedy School for Executive Leadership? It’s like she’s been made to start an organization like the Peace Garden Project.

There have only been a couple of classes so far at the organization’s gardens at Beechland Farm in Manteo, but so far it has been met with much excitement. Participants especially love the location.

“I love communing in nature,” Laura

Allendorf says, 61, of Manteo. “I’ve been taking classes with Maria in other locations, and I wanted to continue, especially on a Sunday, a beautiful day. I absolutely loved it. It’s so nice being outside.”

Lewis has lots of ideas for projects and expansions. In the meantime, to help with that, the organization is always open to volunteers lending a hand out in their gardens or accepting a donation. Even better, you can volunteer your empty backyard or a plot of land for them to turn into a Peace Garden! Their Facebook page posts updates of when free food boxes are available and information about yoga, meditation and other projects planned for the future.

“It’s great to be back here and doing this work in my community,” Lewis says. “I know that if I can contribute in a meaningful way and give young people the opportunity to have unique experiences that help to prepare them for college and their future life, maybe they’ll go to school and come back one day. They’ll be able to make the community and the world a better place. Because that’s my thing. It’s possible to change the world but we can change our communities too. We can change our households. We can change our neighborhoods.”

With people like Lewis in the world, yes we can.

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SUNKEN HISTORY YOU CAN EXPLORE FROM THE SHORE

s lovely as the ocean waters are with their ever-changing colors, waves, textures and moods, the real intrigue lies in what’s beneath the surface.

More than 3,000 shipwrecks litter the ocean floor off of the Outer Banks coast — everything from pirate-era sloops to 16th-century Spanish galleons, Civil War ironclads, World War II German U-boats and modern fishing vessels.

This collection of underwater relics make up what’s known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Some went down in storms, others by war, running afoul on shoals, navigational mishaps and, occasionally, mysterious circumstances.

The wreck of the steamer Huron is at milepost 11.5 at the Bladen Street access in Nags Head.

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Prolific local diver Marc Corbett says the Mountaineer, a sunken British steamer, is one of his favorite wrecks to dive in the Outer Banks. MARC CORBETT PHOTOS

The shipwrecks provide portals into history and, even better, structures for world-class diving. When the conditions are right, diving the Outer Banks wrecks is a scuba diver’s dream and chance to see these pieces of history transformed into marine habitats.

You can experience a few local wrecks without a scuba certification — in fact, you don’t even need a boat! Equipped with a snorkel, mask and fins on the right day, you can swim, kayak or paddleboard about a hundred yards offshore to find wrecks covered with fish and sea life.

Pam Landrum, owner of Roanoke Island Outfitters and Dive Shop, offers guided snorkeling trips to the beach wrecks in Nags Head and Kill Devil Hills. Her shop also rents the necessary gear and offers advice for those going out on their own.

At the local wrecks, might see spadefish, triggerfish, sheepshead, sea turtles, sharks, rays, crabs and smaller fish. The Triangle Wrecks, two ships off of 2nd Street in Kill Devil Hills, is one of Landrum’s favorites.

“There’s a lot of sea life, and it changes

almost every day. It’s a good dive,” she says.

Swimming the 100-200 yards to the wrecks can be physically demanding.

Landrum advises that swimmers be comfortable going that far offshore.

“Sometimes people swim out, then look back to shore and get freaked out about how far off they are,” she says.

The ideal condition for swimming to a wreck, she says, is calm water, no more than 2-foot waves and light east winds for best visibility.

Prolific local diver Marc Corbett says there’s a beach wreck for every skill level, and the best days to explore them are when there’s an east wind and the Gulf Stream comes in closer to shore, bringing crystal clear water.

His favorite wreck is the Winks Wreck off the beach in Kitty Hawk. “I’m partial to that one because it’s the first wreck I identified,” he says. “It’s the wreck of the British steamer Mountaineer, which wrecked on Christmas Day of 1952.”

The SS Carl Gerhard is in about 15 feet of water 100 to 200 yards offshore.

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Where to find beach wrecks Winks Wreck

The British steamer Mountaineer or the “Winks Wreck” is at milepost 2 off Luke Street in Kitty Hawk. It’s about 100 yards offshore in about 15 to 20 feet of water, though the top of the wreck can be as close as 5 feet from the surface. It’s close to the original Winks convenience store (now ice cream shop), hence the name.

Triangle Wrecks

These wrecks can be found around milepost 7 in Kill Devil Hills. It’s two ships, the freighter Carl Gerhard and the tanker Kyzickes, which was split in two. Park at 2nd Street and walk about 80 yards south to get the site. The wrecks are in about 15 feet of water 100 to 200 yards offshore.

This is a popular dive so just look for the people.

Huron

The wreck of the steamer Huron, perhaps one of the area’s most famous wrecks, is at milepost 11.5 at the Bladen Street access in Nags Head. It’s about 200 yards offshore in about 20 feet of water. It’s marked with a buoy.

Oriental

The Oriental, also known as “The Boiler Wreck,” can be seen from the surf right across from the Pea Island Visitors Center.

The wreck is about 200 yards out and sits in 15 to 20 feet of water. Be warned that it can be a long swim and might be best visited with a kayak or paddleboard.

The Oriental, also known as“The Boiler Wreck,” can be seen from the surf right across from the Pea Island Visitors Center. MARC CORBETT PHOTOS

Pocahontas

The wooden paddlewheel steamer Pocahontas is at the end of Sand Street in Salvo.

Its paddlewheel shaft sticks up out of the water, making the site fairly easy to locate.

The wreck is in 10 to 15 feet of water about 75 yards out. The best way to get there is to drive on the beach at Ramp 23 and head north.

The above information is from DiveHatteras.com, a wealth of information about diving Outer Banks shipwrecks.

Want a guide?

Dave Sybert of Vicarious Charters offers freediving and spearfishing boat charters to several wrecks off the northern beaches and Hatteras Island. Ideally, he says, the divers have had a class on basic freediving safety and technique, but he can offer basic instruction as part of the charter if needed. Some of the species Sybert can help you target are sheepshead, triggerfish and spadefish, and his charters have also speared cobia, mahi, African pompano, snappers and grouper.

To charter a beach dive, free dive or spearfishing trip, visit roanokeislandoutfittersanddivecenter.com or vicariouscharters.com.

The bow of The Kyzickes from the Triangle Wreck.

Safety tips

Beach dives are for strong swimmers only.

Educate yourself about breath holds and how to equalize to prevent shallow-water blackout (Roanoke Island Outfitters and

The Triangle Wrecks can be found around milepost 7 in Kill Devil Hills.

Its two ships, the freighter Carl Gerhard and the tanker Kyzickes, were split in two.

Dive Shop offers a class).

Always swim with a buddy and always let someone on shore know your plans.

Be honest about your physical limitations; currents and wind can add challenges to an easy-looking beach swim.

Only swim to wrecks during ideal conditions — light east winds, waves no more than 2 feet.

If possible, bring a flotation device like a boogie board, kayak or paddleboard, especially for children.

By Jessica Taylor

Correspondent

Although dolphins can be seen on the Outer Banks year round, they are mainly sighted in the Roanoke Sound from May through October. The Outer Banks Center for Dolphin Research (OBXCDR) monitors the dolphins in the Roanoke Sound through a research technique known as photo identification.

Aboard boat-based surveys, we photograph the distinctive markings on dolphins’ dorsal fins, catalog these photos and identify and track individuals over time.

Over the years, we learn more about the individuals’ behavior and gain a glimpse into their lives. We become aware of the dolphin “gossip” in the sound, such as which are currently interacting with each other and which appear together consistently, best friend style.

We can distinguish males and females from watching their behaviors.

Females raise their calves for approximately three to five years in the Roanoke Sound; if we see an adult dolphin at least three times with a calf, we can assume that dolphin is a female.

However, dolphins don’t maintain typical family units like people do. Males and females are monogamous for about 5 seconds, so we can’t assume that two seen together are male and female. In fact, two adult dolphins spending time together are more likely to be males.

Male dolphins typically form pairs as they enter adulthood, and these pairs may last for life. In pairs, they can help each other find food and evade predators. Most importantly, males get better access to females when they’re paired up. Studies across the country suggest that there’s typically one “stud” and one “dud” for every male pair, with one guy getting more girls than the other, but both males benefit from having a wingman.

Sprite and Cola paired together until about five years ago. JESSICA TAYLOR PHOTOS

Onion and Shallot together in the Roanoke Sound.

When male pairs are spotted together, they’re seen coordinating their behaviors, swimming synchronously and pairing together with other males.

For dolphin researchers, these pairs help us track the individuals’ stories.

Most famously, Onion and Pinchers were documented by OBXCDR, Nags Head Dolphin Watch and the NC Maritime Museum

research group in Beaufort, NC, for nearly 20 years — always seen side by side.

After Pinchers passed away in 2012 (he was found on the beach in Kill Devil Hills and reported to the OBX Mammal Marine Stranding Network), Onion formed a new pair with another older male, Moe, who had also recently lost his pair, Bud. Moe eventually passed in 2015 (the pier-

house at Jennette’s Pier has an exhibit of his skeleton where visitors can learn more about his life!). Onion then paired with another male named Shallot, and the two have since been spotted together regularly.

Not all pairs last as long as Onion and his friends.

In 2008, we began to piece together the other male pairs of the Roanoke Sound: Bud and Moe, 708

and Sequoia, Rake and 92 and Sprite and Cola. The pairs were consistently seen at each other’s sides.

Then, about five years ago, the things began to change.

Rake was seen without 92, instead spending more time with Cola. Sprite stopped surfacing with Cola and began to surface with another male, Skylar.

708 and Sequoia split up, and Sequoia showed up with Jetson.

Maybe there were disagreements about feeding spots. Maybe fights over female dolphins led to these splits. Whatever the cause, their behaviors raised questions: Why don’t all males stay together?

How do they pick their pairs? And how do they know when it’s time to switch?

As we continue to monitor the dolphins, we will learn more about their motivations for the friends

they choose, the choices they make, and the importance of Roanoke Sound and the Outer Banks to their “summer memories.”

Biologist Jessica Taylor is Executive Director of the Outer Banks Center for Dolphin Research. She has a Bachelors of Science in marine sciences from Rutgers University and a Master’s in coastal environmental management from Duke University. She has participated in field research studies of bottlenose dolphins, humpback whales, Steller sea lions, and predatory fish in Florida, South Carolina, New Jersey, Alaska, and Australia. In 2008, she incorporated the nonprofit, Outer Banks Center for Dolphin Research, which is dedicated to the conservation of bottlenose dolphins in the Outer banks.

For more info, visit obxdolphins.org.

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Sometimes my thoughts take me to a place that is so serene in its silence and beauty. It’s a place I don’t know and have never been. I can visualize my surroundings and have touched within a few thousand miles of it often. I have even tasted it.

It’s the last escape without a geotag or some 10,000 Instagram pictures of girls in bikinis left here on earth. The middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The last frontier. The seas of vastness. The depths of doldrums. The only place to be completely alone without a cold beer from the corner shop, worthless junk mail delivered daily, birds chirping, power lines buzzing, two-day Amazon delivery, smells .… of flowers, candle stores in the mall, paper factories, barbecues.

I’m not talking about the edge of the Gulf Stream or a few hundred miles offshore with a good radio connection. Cut yourself off entirely from the nonsense and bask in your mind, hopefully a sane mind, and rock steadily in the horse latitudes of introspection.

Maybe I am romanticizing something stale, but right now in the madness of summer, it sounds downright dreamy. The chaos of modern civilization has sent many a man to explore the top waters of our oceans, and I am starting to make sense of their voyage. It’s wild and unreliable, but as long as there’s a steady flow of ice, lots of citrus to ward off the scurvy, a decent supply of soggy peanut butter and jellys and an endless supply of booze, I am ready for the ocean to meet the sea.

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Anne Jacobson and her husband in Iceland. Jacobson’s father, aunts and uncles had the memorial built to honor their grandmother. ANNE JACOBSON

TIMELESS NETWORK Local church helping individuals trace their genealogy

By Maggie Miles

Correspondent

When you think of religion, you normally don’t think of genealogy. But in the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, the study of our ancestors and their stories are just as important as the relationships we have with our living relatives.

Since 1984, with help from government records, churches and libraries, the church has created the largest collection of family records in the world through a nonprofit

they sponsor called FamilySearch. It hosts a database with records from over three billion (deceased) people from over 100 countries. It’s like a giant online family tree that everyone can contribute information to, and they are partnered with other databases, like Ancestry.com.

“It’s like a Wikipedia for history,” says Elder Boyce, 20, a missionary from Boston, Mass., who teaches people how to use FamilySearch.org at the church’s Nags Head Ward.

The records are available through the

website, the world-renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and through a network of 4,600 local family history centers. At these centers, members of the church, like Boyce, volunteer their time by offering free genealogy consulting to anyone, church member or not. You can go in for a consultation, and they sign you up with a free account, help you start to connect the dots and, most significantly, teach you how to do the research yourself.

“We don’t give them the fish, we teach them to fish,” Carol Hoffman says, a long-

time student and consultant for the local Family History Center.

Hoffman, of Nags Head, had always wanted to learn genealogy. She tried FamilySearch when she retired but couldn’t figure it out. In order to hone her skills, she signed up to volunteer at the church’s Family History Center for about 20 hours a week.

Since, she’s helped many people discover their own families’ histories as well as had Turn to Genealogy, Page 18

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The Family History Center at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints Nags Head Ward. ELDER CALVIN BOYCE

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her own revelations, including discovering her late grandfather and finding his old journals on the site.

“He wrote really well, and he talked about the ancestors he knew about, and it just lets you know about the challenges they went through, and yet they persevered, and it gives you that feeling of hope,” says Hoffman.

Hoffman, Boyce and the other members of the church are interested in this for many reasons.

“I think it gives us a sense of identity to learn more about who we are. As we learn more about the history of our ancestors and the things that made them what they were, it helps us to learn more about who we are, and who we can become,” Boyce says.

This was certainly the case for Brenda

Hachtman, 70, of Southern Shores. She found records of her family in this country that dated back until the 1590s, before the founding of Jamestown. She also found out that she was a descendant of two people from the Mayflower and, wait for it, Cleopatra.

With records from around the world, Hatchman traced her family history back centuries.

“It solidifies more of who I am,” she says. “And when you reach out and touch backwards and see the people that you are descended from, it makes me humble. To think of some of these people and what they’ve lived through, the wars and all of that stuff, for me to be able to be here today and discover those people in relation. I look forward to meeting everyone when I leave this earth.”

Anne Jacobson of Kitty Hawk, on the other hand, used the Family History Center to connect to people on this plane.

When her daughter planned a destina-

tion wedding in Iceland, Jacobson used the church’s resources to discover a vast family history there, one intertwined with historic places, people and farms.

For example, the family wanted to have their wedding in a Viking stave church.

The one they chose, a Google search later revealed, was the first place that Mormon missionaries taught people in Iceland.

Additionally, the church had a large monument onsite that was sponsored by — who?

— Jacobson’s father, aunts and uncles, built in honor of their grandmother!

The Jacobsons took time to re-letter the monument during their trip as well as dive deeper into their family history. Along the way, they discovered they were cousins with Hatchman’s daughter-in-law.

The serendipitous revelations all came from Jacobson’s daughter’s random decision to get married in Iceland and spending a little time with FamilySearch.

“There were so many things that we were able to find out through the FamilySearch program,” she says. “From piecing things together, we were able to go there and have a real depth of history that we wouldn’t be able to have without these resources. It’s amazing.”

For Hoffman, the most heartwarming thing about family history is realizing that our ancestors are near us. Outlining a family tree, contributing knowledge to your ancestors’ stories and, in turn, learning more about them, you feel their spirits.

According to her, discovering stories of your ancestor’s life is priceless.

“There are stories that people have uploaded [about my relatives] that I didn’t know, and it’s just so heartwarming to know, even if it’s just, ‘He was a good man and he lived on the side of a mountain and he was always kind to people,’ ” she says.

“It’s really rewarding. It really is.”

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CURRITUCK COUNTY Small Business Spotlight

Enjoy a Taste of the Sweet Life in Corolla

La Dolce Vita find success in mixing family, food and fine wine Barbara’s family bought property and has been vacationing here since the mid-70s. She and her husband brought their children to Corolla every summer to vacation. When the kids were old enough, Barb spent the summers here with the kids so they could work and enjoy the beach. It made sense to start our business in a location that we all loved, and always came back to... Corolla.

Advice for someone starting a business in Currituck County?

Be prepared for change - whether it’s the weather, the number of customers or the seasonality of life on a sandbar!

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What are the biggest challenges?

Anne-Marie Marzetti (center) is the president, chef, general manager and owner of La Dolce Vita. Tom Chamberlain (left) is the front of house manager, and Dan Keiger (right) is the pizza chef. Barbara Marzetti (not pictured) is the restaurant’s vice-president, business manager and owner.

Can you describe the business?

La Dolce Vita is a full-service Italian restaurant with dine-in, carry out and catering, serving house-made sauces, dressings, desserts, and hand-tossed gourmet pizzas fired in stone ovens.

We have a full bar with cocktails, craft and draft beers, and a Wine Spectator award-winning wine list (2019, 2020 & 2021). We are the only Wine Spectator Award Winner in Corolla & Currituck County, and one of only three on the Outer Banks.

Anne-Marie is the chef, manages the restaurant and is the social media guru, while her mother, Barbara, manages the business side of things, as well as the marketing and design.

Talk about why you made the decision to start your own business.

After working and managing several different types of seasonal businesses here in Corolla and the US Virgin Islands, Anne-Marie knew she wanted

to open her own restaurant. Barbara always wanted to run her own business but never considered a restaurant. After some coaxing and long discussions, they looked for space and/ or restaurants to buy. They decided it was best to buy an existing operation and then tweak it to their standards, which they did in early 2010.

“As the saying goes, ‘Food is love made edible’ and we enjoy sharing our family’s love of good food and wine...”

Why do you do what you do?

As the saying goes, ‘Food is love made edible’ and we enjoy sharing our family’s love of good food and wine in the company of our friends, neighbors, and visitors to Corolla, in what we think is a very friendly beach environment with global roots.

Why did you choose Currituck?

The seasonality of business here customers and workers; the high cost of doing business in a seasonal resort area - everything costs more - rent, utilities, supplies and employees.

Lack of employees is compounded by the lack of affordable housing and transportation at the end of the paved road. It takes experience and discipline to plan and save money to carry the business through the winter as the bills come due whether the door is open or not. We’ve worked hard to build our brand, and deliver a consistent, high quality product for a fair price, with great, friendly service in a relaxing atmosphere.

What are the biggest rewards?

Returning customers year after year, asking for their favorite menu items and servers, and referring their friends and family to our family! We now have some of our best customers’ children working for us, and celebrating their birthdays, anniversaries, receptions and weddings with us.

What sets you apart?

Consistent high-quality food made in-house from scratch, served with a smile - from our family to yours!

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Find surf, sun and fun at Jennette’s Pier

By Daryl Law Correspondent

Do a sun salutation, see a surfer ripping a wave or get sandy running a 5K this summer at Jennette’s Pier!

The iconic Nags Head fishing pier hosts numerous community events on its south beach.

Things are heating up this July along with the summer sun. Throughout the month, Jennette’s will host free Beach Yoga sessions on Thursdays at 8 a.m. Sponsored by our partner, Outer Banks Hospital, you can come out and enjoy this special opportunity with a seasoned, local instructor.

Mid-month, the OBX Skim Jam brings talent and activity to the beach surrounding Jennette’s for a weekend-long event. On July 17-18, athletes show

off their agility as they skim over the surf before banking off a wave, only to repeat this fast-paced, swishing motion again.

Skimboardng has developed significantly over the years, and the Skim Jam is the place to see riders showcasing some of the newest and most radical tricks.

Another set of elite athletes rolls into town in time for Labor Day weekend. Mark your calendars for the WRV OBX Pro surf contest, Sept. 1-6.

Presented by Pacifico, the WRV OBX Pro surf contest features the WRV Model Team and product demos on the beach. Come see some of the world’s top surfers shred the waves.

Killer surf skills, plenty of beach activities, including product demos from Catch Surf, and even a

Spectators look on at the WRV OBX Pro.

WRV pop-up shop make this event one not to miss.

Shop for commemorative t-shirts, tank tops, hoodies, trucker hats, straw hats,

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L.G. Shaw says everyone’s ready “to have some fun!” as Pacifico plans to provide samples for of-age attendees and work is underway

to ready a live broadcast feed for event week.

Another exciting contest unfolds just weeks later when the best amateurs from Eastern Surfing Association take to the local beaches to try their luck wave riding.

The Eastern championships take place Sept. 19-25.

From surfing’s “Menehunes” to the Legends and everyone in between, these dedicated surfers compete in local district contests for one year to qualify for this championship.

So come on down, hit the beach and watch these athletes go head-to-head for bragging rights and trophies.

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