paying for beach access?

pay for beach access?! that's ridiculous! no wait, I've payed for beach area parking which is pretty much the same haha.. pretty soon we'll have theme-park-style toll booths for people on foot

 

I've been surfing in LA at malibu and Sunset Blvd. PCH has free parking so I never had to pay. Never had to pay to park in Santa Cruz either. On the East Coast, though, you pay for parking.

 

Cali is just rad all around. Except for West Hollywood. Too many damn range rovers and ferraris in west hollywood

 

Narragansett Town Beach in RI charges if you aint there before 9am. If you paddle in from the tower, its free, but you technically aren't allowed on the sand. It costs like $6.

 

What about american Indian surfers ?

 

Go to Seaside Heights, NJ. That's pretty much how it works there. Went there once for a surf contest and never went back.

 

in the 50's nj corrupt gov't allowed wasp homeowners to form 'beach associations,' 'buy the beach,' declare it a 'private beach' and sell 'beach badges.'
they wouldn't sell my dad a house in 1960 because they thought he was Italian.
how ironic is that?

this is why you pay.
you could not go on a 'private beach' until the case against bay head was won, then Mantoloking and point, so now 'private' beaches have to allow anyone on, but they still charge a fee.

it's unconstitutional, illegal and un-American.
that is corrupt nj government. always has been.
since there has been a nj, in the colonial times.

they now use the reason of paying for lifeguards, cleaning, maintenance, but this has nothing to do with it.

municipalities want nothing to do with these 'associations' for the fact is that they only exist if you recognize them, which I don't.
if the children who inherit these homes refused to join they would no longer exist and the beaches would be once again rightfully free to all.
I don't own my home, but I simply apply civil disobedience with this unjust 'law,' and choose not to pay. it freaks them out totally, but once you choose this route you see the kind of freaks they truly are, the lifeguards, beach badge checkers, trustees, all proudly claiming to own that which our country declares to be for every American.
they wear a badge.
riparian rights and federal land use laws are what I have. that is what everyone can claim, but instead they just blindly, ignorantly get harassed and complain.
at my beach it's like 6 hours a day for 10 weeks, vs. the other 18 hours and 42 weeks of the year. I choose not to fry my skin on a hot, fly-infested, ugly overcrowded beach between 10-3 in july/august anyway. if there's waves I can go. it's only if you want to cook yourself in the hot sand that they can try to charge you.

they all deserve each other. the herd of opiated masses convincing themselves that this is nirvana, living the dream, another day in paradise with corona, moscato, Prosecco, surfing lessons, nsp, jimmy buffett and jack Johnson, dude. life's a flipflop. they can have it.

 

I've never had to pay for beach parking in California. Amazing, isn't it? But if you want to park at most Washington state beaches, you have to pay for access to all Washington State Parks. It's probably just a matter of time before California starts doing the same thing, but I would imagine the residents there would put up a huge howl about it.

Face it folks, it's just another source of revenue for your states. That money goes towards maintenance and improvements. I don't like it, but I accept it and pay it. The alternative is to have a really crappy beach.

 

they pay through the nose here. and trust me, it is a really crappy beach

 

Right on dude! The rich d-bags are currently working on a plan here at the IOP in SC to make it difficult for us commoners to visit <their> beach. The irony is most people who now live there are from up north. Their soooo concerned for our safety, lol If they are successful I'm sure other beaches will implement similar barriers to the general public. Land of the free?

 

ever try splaining that concept to farners? foreigners?

 

refuse to pay / get cited / possibly popped. / go to court w/lawyer who says to judge (HUH?!!)....now the
jersey part...if you or your lawyer is dialed in u walk....if not you pay.

 

Not positive, but i think that would have to go through re-writing of state by-laws, etc as i believe it is in the states policies (adopted many, many years ago) that all the coastline in cali & 'gon is state park and therefore they do not charge for them (this might also include parking...there is a reason all the homeless sleep on the beaches in diego, bro)...

from my experience, after living in wny, sva, & me now, you get it in the arse one way or another. in wny a gallon a milk n some lettuce is way cheaper than sva, but taxes are higher in wny...in me the subterranean arachnid crustacean and other fishes are cheaper than sva & wny, but milk is more expensive than wny, cheaper than sva, but taxes in me are higher than sva and wny...also, i believe h2o is way cheaper, easier to come by and not regulated in wny, sva, or me as it is in cali - and btw, northern calis hate southern calis mostly for this reason (n because the over populated south drives the cost of everything else north & east in the state)

the point is, find somewhere you can tolerate, get a decent paying job and try to ignore the frivolous junk 'cause they fugg you anyway you can wherever you go...if that ain't enough, get on your town/city council, or local gov'ment and make some changes to your local/state ordinances