Surfing in Seaside with POAC & Sharks

Alex & his boogie board

Alex loves the ocean and looks forward each summer to the various surfing events that take place hosted by organizations like POAC, Best Day Foundation, Brick Recreation, and Surfers Healing.   His favorite one year after year is the POAC surf in Seaside Park.  There's been sharks lately in Seaside (and all over the Jersey Shore beaches) but we went anyways.

The kids were excited so off we went to the beach. This was a milestone in and of itself since I went with just me and the kids and no second adult.  I couldn't have done that in previous years but this year I've actually braved the beach many a time with just me, myself, and I.

So we loaded up the Wonder Wheeler Beach Cart, packed his BZ BodyBoard, and off we went to Seaside.  The kids had a blast playing in the water and Alex even let me uses his boogie board - wow, now I know why he loves it so much. He had a late surf time of 4pm and by that point the waves were pretty intense. Alex was ready to go catch some waves and he got matched up with his Surfer - I think his name was Sean.

I hoped to get some good pictures but after taking 2 pictures of him with his bodyboard my camera battery died, which meant I could only use my android phone to take pictures.  I was able to capture a few moments but the picture quality isn't that great.  Regardless of pictures, he had a blast and caught some pretty big waves!  He kept getting flipped off of the board and swallowed more salt water than he could care to. I am so glad I had him in swimming lessons this summer, because his swiming skills were certainly put to the test.

Read about more of our Surfing Adventures with Autism here