Thanks to tropical storm Bertha, the surf was huge. Still, lifeguards were allowing people to swim. It was high tide and we kept having to move our stuff farther back, out of the waters way. Two fearless boys, eight and nine years old, dove into the scary-looking waves. Their mother stood at the waters edge and watched them, a look of horror on her face.













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