First time Surfers

My friend, Shawn Tracht, who is an English teacher at a local continuation High School, excellent surfer, also the editor of the online magazine; surfwanderer, challenged his students to keep a 3.0 average and really good attendance, and he would give them all a surf lesson and lunch. He was amazed, about 80 students met his challenge, and about 15 of these young inquiring minds showed up at the Pier for a frolic in the ocean, a first for some of them! I saw so much joy and excitement in their eyes, it was truly inspiring. Some of the kids stood up and rode waves the first time out. Here are a couple of happy faces from the adventure.