Guberboober

Oh never mind i just had to defeat a kid at the beach.

The guys says "id rather go south Fuchsia city, there is no reasont to go to safari zone".

yes the problem is to get surf i need to get to safari zone and when i get near the safari entrence my characher says that i should go to the boat.

So to progress i need to go to Fuchsia beach and take a boat ride but to take a boat ride i need to do Saffron manager quest (i think) but to do that i need to go to route 16 with a bike (as far as i know bikes are 75k, id rather quit the game thain grind that money). Is that the only way to progress or am i doing something wrong ? P.S last gym i defeated was in saffron.