The sun is shining. I walk up through the green and flowery dunes to see the oceans waves are big, clean and peeling perfectly right off the pier.
The beach is uncrowded except for a couple other surfers. Tucked away behind mansions in a little shore town that nobody really knows about besides the rich inhabitants of these estates from that are never even at these palatial homes with the exception of a few summers out of the summer. The ocean a clear greenish color. A secluded paradise in New Jersey, all to myself and my friends behind the vacant summer homes of rich Syrian Jewish doctors, accountants and investment bankers from new york. I park my car and get changed in front of a huge house that must cost millions of dollars. There are no cars in the drive way. You see more Mexicans mowing lawns in the neighborhood than people actually living in it. I grab my surfboard run onto the beach, passing a sign that reads "cation unprotected beach, no lifeguards, no swimming" and I go and enjoy the peace of an empty beach and vast ocean all to myself as the sun is rising and the waves are breaking, I wonder what that same sunrise looks like from an office building in the city.
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you don't care now, but it'd be nice to have a safety net
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ReplyDeleteInteresting. My mom's an accountant and we have a shorefront home. And our neighbors are Jewish doctors...
after having a couple of seating's with Stephen, it is clear to me that he loves to surf. lives life on the edge, and pretty much optimistic about anything daring. He loves to surf, and based on this description, he went to an abandoned beach that no one but his friends know about, enjoying the water and it waves. great description
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