Amazon Prime’s hit sequence, “The Summer season I Turned Fairly,” relies on the bestselling novel trilogy of the identical identify by Jenny Han. The present follows teenager Isabel “Stomach” Conklin as she experiences the highs and lows of adolescence throughout her summers at Cousins Seashore along with her mother and really shut boy pals.

In each the novel and the sequence, the imagery of the sunny, sandy, and picturesque Cousins Seashore is sufficient to make any individual yearn to relocate to a quaint seaside city for the summer time. Whereas the principle setting of the e book just isn’t an actual place, it’s impressed by just a few notable seashores.

Seasons one and two of the onscreen adaptation of Han’s e book have been filmed in Wilmington, NC, throughout many places within the state’s Cape Concern space, in addition to its surrounding seashores, together with Carolina Seashore, Kure Seashore, and Wrightsville Seashore, per Folks. In accordance with The Kansas Metropolis Star, most of the actors within the sequence hung out within the space earlier than filming to not solely familiarize themselves with each other but additionally take within the location. “We acquired used to being in Wilmington, we acquired used to being collectively and have been capable of kind this bond that was much like the bond together with your childhood pals and that we would have liked to have for the present,” Lola Tung, who performs Stomach within the sequence, advised the publication.

Take a look at some images of Cape Concern and Wrightsville Seashore within the Wilmington, NC, space beneath.

Whereas the vast majority of Stomach’s story takes place at Cousins Seashore and thus was filmed in Wilmington, Han has massive concepts to increase her world. The Amazon Prime sequence formally returns for season two on June 17, and it seems that the characters could have a change of surroundings come the brand new season. “All you see is summertime proper now. And I feel there’s much more street to hoe. We’ll get to see [Belly’s] world a bit greater,” Han defined to Right this moment.