I used to spearfish in the Zuma Beach kelp beds next to Malibu Beach and remember the crappy attitude of the residents there toward the "peasants" who dared to use "their" beaches. 90% liberals and they had the attitude of King Louis XIV: "The peasants are revolting? You bet! They stink on ice."
I hope a lot of folks use this app to access their sacred beaches.
The Seascape Beach in Aptos can only be reached by a walk down a long path behind and through the Seascape Resort. So few people know it is open to the public. It’s never crowded and has a spectacular view of the Monterey Bay.
This is not limited to California. Where I go, along Lake Michigan, there is no shortage of people who spend a couple million to buy their house, and then try to restrict access to “their” beach.
Our cousin just married a rich guy (owns 130 fast food restaurants, his own jet, the whole deal) and they recently finished building a 9,000 sq ft weekend house in Malibu. It must be nice!
Weird, if they want to keep people out so bad they should try to buy the beach.
I can’t imagine being so passionate about such a trivial issue.
How cool!!
LA Freepers (if there are any) should see to it that “the underprivileged” have access. Yellow buses sound like a great idea.
Around here we have Government wharves, but few locals use them because every weekend they are filled with Hispanics and Blacks who get really nasty if you invade their space.
Billionaires can easily afford directional cell phone and wifi blockers. This should be fun.
and beach erosion
Gotta be careful if you go onto these beaches. Local skinhead surfers consider these their beaches regardless of what the laws and regulations say, and they will hurt you if you violate what they consider their beach.
On the Great Lakes, the rules are different. For example, in Michigan the beach is owned by the state “up to the ordinary high water mark. This is the point at which the action of waves on shore is apparent.”
“In Ohio, court cases related to beach ownership have been moving up the judicial ladder. A few years ago, the state began charging beachfront land owners a fee for installation of docks that extend into the lake. This fee was charged with the view that the bottomlands on which the docks were constructed was state land. A lower Ohio court disagreed with this interpretation, however, and declared that the actual edge of Lake Erie was the property boundary.”
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I hope an app like this is ported to other platforms, and can grow to accept other locations around the country.
For California, if I saw a phony sign, I'd make up a professional vinyl stick-on of the same size and style, and plaster it over the original. It would say the same thing, but I'd add, in smaller letters, "Use of deadly force is authorized".
See how long before somebody notices, and hope it doesn't hit the media. :)
a really nice large and sort of secluded beach is north of Malibu at Leo Correo State Beach Park, about 15 miles north of Malibu - it even has a small campground on the east side of the Pacific Coast Highway, from which you can walk to the beech
one year we went to Leo Correo with a large group
we covered one section of the beach along the cliff
using an old Parachute
the tide was a little high at the time
and you had to pass through a tunnel in the rock
to get from the main part of the beach
to the little camp we made for our party
we secured the parachute to the rock of the cliff with
some old railroad ties
we did not keep that section to ourselves
we were a large group but we let anybody
join our area and our partying too
the parachute caught the attention of someone
they sent a helicopter to look at our site
and then a Park Ranger
who thought our canopy was ingenuous
and said he’d let his duty to make us take it down slide
until it got dark
and we told him we’d leave by then
and he parted saying just keep the beach clean
everyone remembers it as one of the
best beach parties we had in the 1960s
P.S. It was our Methodist Church college age youth group plus invited friends and our long time MYF leader.
There are ranchers in the mountain states who close off access roads to the National Forest. It has been a problem for years.
Recall that Jim Rockford lived on the beach in Malibu in his tenement on wheels.
One back story in the series was that he drew the ire of the local residents, ostensibly because of the nature of his business, but it was a not-so-subtle dig at the real-life Hollyweird elitists who inhabited (inhabit) Malibu.
The beach is owned by the citizens of California, no matter what the rich & famous like to believe. elitism vs. egalitarianism.