California may have a right to passage for the public on most beach areas, but honestly most of these areas are secluded, gated with guards and no public parking nearby. In order for someone to excersize their “rights” they’d have to go through a lot of trouble which brings their motivation into question.Not true at all. The private stretches of Malibu are interspersed with public stretches. Broad Beach, one of the prime conflict areas (and where Redford lived--he sold it a while back), is immediately adjacent to Zuma Beach, a massive county park that runs a couple of miles.
Here's a picture of Broad Beach and Zuma Beach to Point Dume. The Broad Beach neighborhood, by the way, is not gated and guarded.
As I say, one needs to go through considerable trouble to excersize their "rights".
I used to live down there and am somewhat familiar with how it works. If you look at your picture of Broad Beach, there's not any easy access between those houses. There is public access though. The top pic shows that access at Broad Beach. The second shows where it ends at high tide, which is important because public access in those areas is 25' above high tide. And the third shows how absurd that is in some areas. As you point out there are huge open areas all along the coast, Zuma to Dockweiler which have both ample parking and plenty of open beach.
