For the past two years, 11-year-old Carter Doorley has put on his wetsuit and hit the waves every day. The fifth-grader from Brigantine, New Jersey, uses his surfing to raise money for charity —often surfing a wave for every dollar donated to his fundraisers.
“I’ve been trying to help a lot of people,” Carter tells PEOPLE. “It‘s a lot of fun.”
Carter taught himself to surf at five and put the hobby to work during the pandemic lockdown when local playgrounds, hockey courts, and skate parks were closed — but the beach was open.
Carter told his mom he wanted to try to surf every day for 100 days in a row. Then he kept going — on May 24, he will have surfed 730 days in a row.
“It blows my mind,” says his mom, Dawn Doorley, 43, who documents Carter’s surfs on Instagram (@CarterCatchesWaves).
On November 5, 2020, when Carter learned …