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Several generations of the same family can be found in the water at once. Many of the devout surfers on the Outer Banks are funloving high school and college kids, but others are lawyers, engineers, parents, artists, restaurateurs, contractors, business owners, and more professionals who consider surfing a necessary spiritual experience. Several of the locals have become professional surfers.

The Outer Banks is renowned as the best East Coast surfing location, and the best Outer http://www.moncleroutletvip.com/ Banks surfing, no doubt, is on Hatteras Island within Cape Hatteras National Seashore. It wasn't until the 1960s that surfing really took off on the Outer Banks, though locals had been establishing the sport here before that. In the '60s, the word got out about Outer Banks waves, and surfers from all along the East Coast began making road trips to the area's deserted beaches. Many of those early surfers ended up staying for good. In the 1970s the hottest surfing action was focused around Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, which was known as the "Wave Magnet." In the '70s the Eastern Surfing Championships began here, which attracted more attention to the local surfing scene. When professional surfers visit, and they often do, cameras and media attention follow, and now there probably isn't a surfer alive who hasn't heard of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Oldschool surfers had a definite image: young, bleachedblonde kids driving surf wagons and VW buses, skipping school, and living for the next big break. Today, it's harder to stereotype surfers; one reason is that there are many more people doing it here than ever before. The teenagers who started the sport here are all grown up and working regular jobs, but they still like to surf and now their kids are surfing the Outer Banks breaks. Several generations of the same family can be found in the water at once. Many of the devout surfers on the Outer Banks are funloving high school and college kids, but others are lawyers, engineers, parents, artists, restaurateurs, contractors, business owners, and more professionals who consider surfing a necessary spiritual experience. Several of the locals have become professional surfers.