Frances Dyer (R) enjoys a boogie boarding session with a women s seniors group she helps run as they enjoy the ocean waves on International Women s Day. Photos: REUTERS/Mike Blake
Californian grannies and retired mothers are living it up on boogie boards, riding the waves like kids away from the sunset.
For these besties, there was no better way to celebrate International Women s Day on Monday than to surf away their blues together at Solana Beach, California. It s exhilarating. There is nothing like being in the water, getting wet, getting cold and loving it, said 75-year-old Patti Fitchen. Look at these great women, chimed in Christa Stahl, 85, a boogie boarder for almost 20 years. Nobody s worried about their hair and makeup or how much weight they ve gained or lost, they re just real, you know, it s really been special.
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Do not let the women, in their 60s to mid 90s, of Fletcher Cove's boogie board group fool you. They have a lot of what you could call "beach cred" in their books.