“I don't care what you think, it was deeded to me!”
Nothing unites the entirely disparate surf world like rich bastards buying beachfront mansions and blocking access to The People™ or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe only my blood boils when I hear tales of the ultra-wealthy buying homes in Malibu or Montauk or Montecito, throwing up gates and having security guards wag ugly fingers into crestfallen faces.
Oh how it riles. How it infuriates. I’ve got the nasty sort of temper when it comes to these things that doesn’t lead to resolution but feels good and that’s why I’m always so impressed by salt-of-the-earth folk who make access for all their mission. Who go to town hall meetings, petition citizens, start signature drives and try to do things the right way i.e. not waiting until darkness falls and throwing rocks through windows.
Salt-of-the-earth folk like surf shop owner Bob Hovey from the town of Duck, which is on North Carolina’s outer banks.
Now, Duck doesn’t sound like a fancy pants town name but apparently rich blow-ins have scooped up the best property and disallowed access to locals and let’s learn about the situation first. Let’s get all caught up in the Virginian-Pilot:
Surfer and businessman Bob Hovey pointed to a small sign at the end of Plover Drive next to a boardwalk leading to the beach.
“No trespassing,” it said.
Hovey hates that sign.
“This spot right here is so prime to be a public beach access,” said the 48-year-old owner of Duck Village Outfitters. “I’m going to keep fighting for public beach access in Duck. It’s doable.”
Hovey has created a Facebook page to promote his passion. Several people post comments supporting his cause. He has appeared at numerous town hall meetings to plead his case. He filed suit last year against the town, but a judge ruled against him in May. He started an online fundraising effort that garnered $1,000.
After all of that, he has made little headway.
He owns a home in Duck’s Osprey Ridge, but it sits on the soundside of N.C. 12. Businesses and homeowners who are in one of the ocean-to-sound neighborhoods do not have access, he said. Construction workers and shop owners and employees who do not live there cannot easily get to the surf, he said.
The Town of Duck incorporated in 2002 after private neighborhoods had already enveloped the oceanfront, said Town Manager Chris Layton. Its seven miles of beach are open to the public, but without public access points, people have to cross private property to reach them.
In Duck, the federal government owns about 150 acres around the Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility, the long pier set up for ocean studies. Decades ago, people could drive to the pier parking lot and use a path to the ocean for surfing, said Jon Britt, a Duck town councilman.
“Then, unfortunately, times changed,” he said.
The officials, planners, etc. used every excuse in the book, nothing changed and today Bob Hovey was allegedly arrested while standing near the path and let’s dip into his Instagram.
I got arrested and taken away in a cop car thanks to Donna Krieger and Allan Dald pictured in this video. I was using the Sea Breeze Dr. beach access in Duck, NC. that was deeded to the public in 1981. Sorry to anyone I offended but I felt adamant about sticking up for beach access rights. The beach is for everyone and something needed to be done to protect beach access rights in Dare County. The town of Duck has received millions of Dare County taxpayer money for beach nourishment and other beach services. Anyone that can help with my cause please contact me at 2526796575. I have been told by Police Chief Cuito that I would not be arrested for using the state road beach accesses in Duck so it was a bit of a surprise to me. My court date is July 5th. I am hoping this will get thrown out of court based on the fact it was deeded to the public and we will have our beach access rights reinstated. I bailed myself out and am heading to work now so I am ok.
Oh the bastards. Oh the rich bastards or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this is just the way things are and we should all thank the rich for succeeding where we failed.
Should we be satisfied eating our cake?
If you don’t like cake, call Bob! 252-679-6575
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Allan Dald is an asshole. “My beach.” What a dick.
Give me the blow, I’ll put out a nice ricin pudding mix in their kitchen and then the streets. Terror!!!
In early 70’s, the cave was huge, (cove south of osprey) 20-30 ft ceiling, 50 -75 ft across, maybe bigger? It was looking right out at the surf, really cool. (like the ulu cave?) In the way back was a set of carved steps leading to a steep 45 degree sloped path that went up under the street, you could climb up them, but it was closed at the top, and the air was hot and stale, like no oxygen stale. Like leave soon stale. I heard it went to the pink house too. Did your friend actually go into the house? wow, that would be quite the tunnel!!! I felt like I got somewhere up close to being under the road, but not quite I believe the smuggling was from the 1920’s or whenever Prohibition was, and booze was the item in demand. I cant imagine it lasting too long, either from being shut down, or from the power of the ocean just causing it to collapse. It was right under the parking lot there!!
As far as the homies cave, that local sandstone is so soft, you could carve it with your crackpipe…when it wasnt being used. That rock is SO unstable though, some sections OK, but other areas it just comes off in HUGE sheets. Used to be a big free standing pillar of stone right there, next to the
left lineup…”birdshit rock”….but it tumbled away.
The city was doing everyone a favor closing that homeless cave down, save the dudes and save themselves a lawsuit… haha attractive nuisance, “you should have known my deceased tweaker client would want to bury into the cliffs and build a nest.”
This shit has been going on for DECADES. Here is a poster and a Letter to the Editors I sent to Surfer Mag
back in 1984. They printed the letter and sent me back the poster. The photo is from 1982 when native
Outer Banker Mark Dough (RIP Breddah) and I had the pier to ourselves while 2 foot overhead tubes
pumped in through all tides. Same assholes, different tax bracket… https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
too bad Mr. Dald didn’t get physical and get the thumping he deserves. and that loud mouth hag needs to take her emotional support animal and get bent. lol, if you’re in public you’re free game for pics or video you old wench!
Scott is the smugglers cave near osprey closed by now? thats a pretty cool cave.Little steps and a path going way up towards the road.
Heres a link to the article Section SB: http://sdnews.com/view/full…
thanx man….(website sucking right now tho) check my reply to Scott down below.
Get Delbert Melton to camp out in that area for a few days.
The entire neighborhood will have For Sale signs in a week……….
Trump lies, cheats and steals… completely amoral, no interest in governance, just wants to control/influence business. Always a tilted playing board as his only tool and a deep cache of attorney’s willing to wait out the opposition. He can’t release his tax forms, he’s talking to Putin about Mueller but refuses to talk to Mueller about Putin… super deplorable fuck and so many more examples it’s exhausting (his court strategy)
Those are FOX talking points, pure propaganda. It’s the Republican party that wants to control women’s health, wants to tell you what normal sex is and wants mostly to control business.
You still don’t get the basic premise…. Money V Humanity.
Socialism is nothing to fear, the wealthy love socialized risk…. many can’t survive without it. Pharma, Oil, Ag, you name it. You’re also playing with definitions again, confused as you should be with so much distraction dizzying your view.
How has the tax breaks effected you Lemoore? Not only is it adding to the deficit, which conservatives don’t care about, but it is challenging the working folk. You can’t vote for big business and vote for yourself. I mean you can, but you’re working against your own best interest unless you are of the .5% or less….
And the same fucks that tout capitalism hide behind religion, pious and on their soapbox. Because Jesus would be a Republican capitalist? Or was he a socialist? I guess you can interpret fairy tales any way you like because both versions are false.
thought for sure this my New Jersey when I saw the headline and photo alone… our state just doesn’t get it on this topic… quite shocked it was the Outer Banks… the 1 percent has infiltrated the OB…had no idea…
Yup. That’s them. Ministry Of Defence. Their budget has been slashed since the Falklands war, so now all they do is ride around on weeny tuk-tuks.
You’ve done a great job of being wrong Lemoore. It must take skill to spin that heavy and always land on an opinion that affirms what you already believe. Very talented at being unaware. Allow Money to distract you from the real oppression and you point the fingers at other sheep while the wolves laugh and thank you.
This shit would never fly in California. People talk a lotta shit on CA but we stand up against shit like this…
Yeah we do!…
…except at the Ranch, Malibu, parts of Orange County, and wherever that rich Indian dude bought a whole city.
Republican’s only care about their money…. all issues reflect that selfishness as they hide behind “god”. Democrats are Republican light.
The reality is, there is no left. Capitalism demonizes the term “Socialism” because if the people knew how fucked they were, it would become ugly.
Conservatives have done a job redefining terms to their advantage, but scratch the surface and nothing they stand for is conservative. It’s all an illusion Scott.
Ya gotta pay the Troll Toll to get into the boys soul.
You see that homeless/drug cave the city finally collapsed at sunset cliffs last week? The trolls literally dug into the cliff.
wow….there used to be some cool smugglers caves down that a way. big and roomy.
It WAS big and roomy! They had 3 beds in there, paintings on the walls, and lots and lots of pi https://uploads.disquscdn.c… ss jugs.
A friend in Hawaii started taking me to this spot called Kaikos on Oahu. The waves were kinda blown alot but the current and rocks kept the crowds way down. They had a nice beach access path between two houses. I guess all the richies in the houses down there didn’t like it. They left the beach access alright. They just had the parking zones changed and all the curbs are now red so no parking anywhere close enough to surf there.
It’s insanity. Someone can basically break the law with a cheap sign and a fence and it costs big money to beat them down in court. So fucked.
Someone should fire a frozen shit through her window with an orange cannon
Coated with plutonium …..
You a Russian agent/prankster, Bicko?
Nah , just silly .
Same story in Washington state…archaic laws and oligarch land owners.
I went salmon fishing once on Whidbey island. I got way more bad vibes from the locals than I ever have surfing in Hawaii.
I was surprised at all the white trash and trailers on that little island.