$11,000 per day fine incoming.
California. A communist utopia where wealth is shared via exorbitant taxation, gender constructs are near complete erasure and 840 of coastline is open to all regardless of creed. Any person, from anywhere, is free to traipse upon any beach, even poor ones (persons).
The California Coastal Commission breaks it down thusly:
In California, the state owns the beach waterward of the mean high tide line for your benefit, to access, use, and enjoy. The state and other public entities like counties and cities might also own dry sandy beaches landward of the mean high tide line for public use. While there is private property ownership along some beaches and bluffs, the state owns most tidelands, submerged lands, and waters in trust for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the public.
Well, as happens occasionally, hardened capitalists attempt to usurp beaches for exclusive use by the wealthy. The latest bit of corpo greed happening in tony Laguna Beach, once home to Gotcha and Victoria Skimboards. Hotel Laguna, which claims to be the first hotel in Laguna, recently got super busted for building a berm of sand around its beach side and planted beach chairs with signage in order to give the appearance of private property. Brave class warriors have even captured hotel employees telling them to leave the area using many and varied threats like “jail.”
The breech has, thus, been reported to the state and the state is giving the hotel until May 23 to prove that it has removed any impediment. If it fails so to do, a daily $11,250 fine will be levied.
But where do you stand on the issue of beach access for all? Are you a poor person or not?
More as the story develops.
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The State of Hawai’i also has laws that (supposedly) guarantee “beach access for all” –
SAVE THE WHALES
Don’t need a private beach, just a private beach access.
Crap stretch of sand, in front of a crap hotel, on a crap beach (Main Beach). If you know anything, you’re not wanting to post up there.
Certainly not rich but I am in the SW of France. Been here a week and three more to go. I will never understand why Americans and other Australians don’t surf holiday here but I am fucken happy about it.
Xox
What’s The Dogsnuts report?
Beautiful people and excellent banks currently. Been having ice creams with the most desirable woman in existence. Pray for Dognuts!
Xox
Just got back. Was only there for a few days and had good enough waves.
Definitely a surf trip where you could take your wife and she wouldn’t complain. Food and wine was magnifique as they say.
I gorge on waves for two or three days, then food through the storm. Then surf and look at the beautiful people.
It’s amazing.
Xox
Two words – ‘cold water’
I detest the tropics !
Xox
What’s the accommodation cost per night ?
Fiddy bucks!
Xox
enjoy.
such a great place, great food & some really fun surf
Thanks ! And some fucking mental surf at times!
Xox
Whereas I’ll never understand why you say “I will never understand why Americans and other Australians don’t surf holiday here”, or perhaps you’ve gone blind from your fecal tainted finger habit.
Most likely you’re just between seasons and they’re all hidden away or working, or that fecal tainted finger habit of yours has caused mind numbingness to kick in.
When I visited there from 1989 to 1991 the place was chocka block (that means ‘full to the brim’, for anyone from California and the many other American states where children can marry with parental consent) of them ‘surf holidaying’ there, to point that Hossegor was already known as Aussiegor back then.
Heck where else do ya think Australian Brutus accidentally put the vee in the wrong end of American Currens board while high on hash and wine, and made him surf faster.
And from what I’ve heard the numbers are still strong and climbing.
P.S.
While at the same time there were only a few frogs and other west euro’s (and not a single South African or Israeli due to apartheid etc) surfing in Bali, let alone the rest of Indonesia, thank goodness, and NO east euro’s and ruskies etc ANYWHERE in the world outside their scabby homelands…
Been here a week, haven’t heard a single Australian. Let alone a surfer.
Xox
You just got there at a crappy time of year when it’s both cold and often flat. It’s a zoo from July-September when the water is warm enough to make it worth putting up with the French.
Mate it’s been on the pump luckily. Also after a hellish time and no holidays in 18 months I took a chance.
But also most likely coming back in October.
Xox
Supposedly Otto is building a berm around Tower 9 and has Scorn sniping at people from the bird’s nest they built on top of the Tower. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Look into my mind
Tell me what you think
Of the mange and madness
Of a missing link
You stiffen and turn sour
Descending from my tower
You fall and turn away
You are mine! -DRI
So what are the rules in that place ?
If ya going for a shirtless pre-breakfast stroll on Laguna beach can ya just bowl up, plonk yaself down on a reclining lounger and order a beer (or quadruple rum cocktail etc), drink it at your leisure, pay the bill, and then continue on with your stroll ?
Or do you have to be staying at the hotel (or at least enter through the front door, adhere to their dress code, and stay for a full lunch), to sip your favourite adult beverage with your toes in the sand, and not run the risk of arrest for beach boozing ?
I’ve got the pockets to buy private experiences, but it’s bullshit to illegally privatize a public good.
Good for this guy, if you don’t flex your rights the Gollums of the world ain’t gonna do it for you.
Obviously, that guy is getting all the pussy. He’s just protecting his little gold mine,….looks like the kind of guy that would have urine in a bottle.*
“California. A communist utopia where wealth is shared with red states whose poor but patriotic and strong but lazy people refuse to work in the fields requiring the importation of migrant labor while they cash their big government subsidized checks, get their fentanyl fix and keep the Mexican cartels in business.”
I would have gotten my payback the old fashion way. Go in at night and dig a deep hole in the restricted area. Cover it with a towel and light covering of sand. Hotel patron falls in next day. Gets injured. Sues hotel. Hotel goes under. Problem solved.
Like this
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJhdjiENvm_/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Exactly!
Used to spend time in a little seaside fishing-cum-tourism town in Central America where the gringos were actively trying to get the authorities to take issue with the every Increasing consumption of the beachside restaurants, owned by locals and euros alike. They weren’t wrong, but it was an interesting dynamic to see. Those vocal gringos who take on a cause and don’t back off until they’re ruined or (in one case) kill themselves.
The lazy and corrupt police and Town officials never signed up for that; only for free pussy and a steady salary.
Tamarindo is a sad little telenovela
…to be avoided when possible.
sue poor man
What does Poorman have to do with it?
Nothing but a rather unique running style
Yes he does