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Wrightsville Beach named top 20 surf town in the world

Submitted by Paul Blackmore on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 1:56pm.READ MORE:
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WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) -- Wrightsville Beach is celebrating an international distinction. National Geographic has named it one of the 20 best surf towns in the world.

It's joined on the list by towns in better known surf Meccas like Hawaii, Brazil and Australia.

Wrightsville Beach was noted for the surf during hurricane season and for being a stand-up paddleboarding hotbed.

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lol

Submitted by Guesticles on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 11:50am.

wat?

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Top 20? For knee high slop 9

Submitted by wrv90 (not verified) on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 10:32am.

Top 20? For knee high slop 9 months a year?

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WB may be a good "surf town"...

Submitted by taxpayer on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 7:46pm.

but the good surfing is at Carolina Beach.

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What? With commonly knee to waist high surf?

Submitted by Guest461 (not verified) on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 7:34pm.

Yep. We have surfshops, surfboards, roof racks with surfboards, surfboards all over the beach. We have surfer boys and wahinis. We have surf music and we have surf bands....we just have no surf. That NatGeo reporter must've just graduated from the Fairbanks Alaska School of Ice Cube Sales because he doesn't know DIDDLY about surfing!!!

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Wrightsville Beach

Submitted by Don Ward (not verified) on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 4:46pm.

Better bring a lot of change for parking, and always be on time to add quarters/time because the parking ticket brigade is quite dedicated in Wrightsville Beach.

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