2008 GSN Hatteras Island Surf Film
Festival
EVENT SCHEDULE
GSN
thanks everyone that attended and helped. OBPA was the main act of the day.
Call Your Favorite Surf Company & Let
Them Know About OBPA
LEGAL FUNDS NEEDED - Let's help OBPA - FOR BEACH ACCESS
Wholesalers / Retailers / Manufacturers / Sales
Reps / Individuals
Casey Williams Lewis an excellent Bodyboarder who loved the Hatteras
Ocean .
YOUR PIER SHOT - Says It All - THANK YOU
Another Fallen Surfer Who Will Always Be Remembered
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MEMORIES Photo by Casey Lewis AVON, N.C |
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www.HatterasIslandSurfFilmFestival.comFree beach access is vitally important to all beach lovers, whether they just stroll
on them in the midnight breeze or if they are trying to catch the big one that just barely got away.
As for surfers,
they are always willing to share their special stories of how hollow it was or as fishermen do, how big it was, but the special
stories are always those shared with friends when they catch it just right, uncrowded, with their friends.
As a surfer
since 1962, I discovered Cape Hatteras long before it was popular. I was lucky. My Dad was a hardcore, good – no, a
great – fisherman who loved Cape Hatteras and the uncrowded areas that others seemed to know nothing about.
Throughout
the ‘60s was the best of times because it felt like our very own paradise.
Yes, time does change many things,
and we know that it is often times called progress.
Once again, as fishermen, surfers, and just ordinary beach lovers,
we know that if any beach in the world closes off access, then we have all lost.
Crowding people into “commercial
zones” is never a viable alternative.
In the case of the Outer Banks and, especially Cape Hatteras, we all know
that it isn't the buildings, it isn't the glitter, nor is it hype that attracts the masses.
It is an attraction that few areas are blessed with at all.
God did this area well. Most people don't realize how
really perfect it is.
It is simply the ocean, the beaches, the friendliness of locals, and the sense of peace that
the area naturally offers.
I have no answers, nor do I have a viable solution, but I know for sure that, yes, the environment
is important, but certainly not the most important. Beach access, free beach access is the attraction and the freedom is worth
protecting.
If this right is denied to those who love this area the most, then what we have really lost is our rights
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Aren't we as Americans guaranteed those rights?
Shame on those
who are blinded by either greed or by some misguided environmental political power move that blinds their perspective.
Human
rights should be held in the highest regard and those who have never set foot on the sands of Cape Hatteras to fish, surf,
or even walk, will never understand nature’s freedom and how it enriches one's soul.
Collectively we all are
caretakers of the coast and have been long before this controversial issue.
I pray that the decision-makers rule in
favor of exactly what the locals desire and that blind ignorance doesn't prevail.
Just look north to Virginia or south
to Myrtle Beach and then breathe in the salt air slowly in Hatteras.
What you're breathing in is freedom, and that
is definitely worth protecting and educating others of its value.
Those opposing freedom should leave well enough alone
and go home.
I predict maybe a long battle, and at times it may even feel like a losing battle, but the Hatteras I
have grown to know always seems to win.
Why, you may ask, and I'll say simply just this -- because it's Hatteras.
If
your community wins, we all win.
Rob Beedie
Global Surf Network
http://www.GlobalSurfNetwork.com
Professional Sound Services For This Festival Donated
By
Sound Engineer - Travis Fox
Musical Expression Session
LOCAL BAND PROUDLY OPENS OUR SHOW
Chicamacomico @ 12:00 Noon
1:00 pm Community Expression
Session
Underground District @ 2:00
pm
Fujiwara @ 3:00 pm
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