NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — On a sunny warm day, surfers left their wheelchairs for a surfboard and rode the North Myrtle Beach waves.
Wheels to Surf, with Luke Sharp and the non-profit Adaptive Surf Project, hosted a dozen individuals with physical disabilities for a day in the ocean as a part of the “Shepherd Center Day of Surfing” on Saturday, June 13. The Shepherd Center in Atlanta is a treatment center for traumatic spinal cord injury.
“It fills my heart with joy to be here,” said Dawn Bertelsen, a Wheels to Surf volunteer. “There’s so much positive energy. It lifts me up for a week after I come out to be around these surfers.”
The Adaptive Surf Project is so popular, surfers come from all over the country — Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Atlanta, Johns Island, and many other locales…