Anastasia Island

Travel Pro: Taking to the waves with Lauren L. Hill - SilverKris

"A barrier island off the Florida coast where she grew up and spent much of her childhood at the beach; a small, close-knit community with few pastimes, it became the setting where she discovered surfing at 13. Family influence — a father who had surfed in Hawaii — and constant access to the ocean made the spot formative, turning surfing from a pastime into a life-defining practice that launched a competitive stint and later a career as a free surfer and storyteller." - Nick Measures