Terrible law, much better is Texas law that property ownership stops at the vegetation line. You do not own the sand in Texas, the public does. However if there is no access to the beach for all practical purposes it’s your beach. Texas does allow driving on the beach, which IMHO is not such a good thing.
“Texas does allow driving on the beach, which IMHO is not such a good thing.”
Many years ago I’d go and do the beach bum thing, camping out, fishing, drinking, and beach combing on the southern portion of Padre Island. This was before the Nature Concervancy bought a bunch of it (so I’ve been told). I loved being able to drive north in the wet sand until I found myself suficciently far enough away from civilization, and would stay sometimes a few months at a time. I don’t see any harm that the vehicles do to the sand, and unless one knows the secret, ya can’t drive into the dry sand without getting immediately stuck.
Crowded beaches are the only valid reason to restrict beach driving below the dune line.
Texas does allow driving on the beach, which IMHO is not such a good thing.
When I was small and we lived in Corpus Christy there was Padre Island, a pretty deserted place where you could drive down on the beach and camp. We all had campers. We did that with many Navy families and the kids had a blast. The parents ate sand and put up with all the mess for us to have fun. We would hunt for sand crabs at night with bb guns. No walking on the dunes which messed up our hunting grounds. Wiffle ball! Playing on rafts! Big kids took care of little kids. Sand castles! S’mores! Sunburn : (