Sanctuary at Redfish

[SHELLY]

So it sounds like the parking may be filled up in August and we shouldn't count on getting a spot.

Maybe you can load all your beach stuff in the car in the morning (including a bike), drive down and park, then bike back to the condo and everyone walk or bike down to the beach later in the day.


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[Matt J]

Maybe you can load all your beach stuff in the car in the morning (including a bike), drive down and park, then bike back to the condo and everyone walk or bike down to the beach later in the day.


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Sounds like an old trick to me.

 

[SHELLY]

Sounds like an old trick to me.

And no one knows an old trick like GB does. ;-)


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[Matt J]

And no one knows an old trick like GB does. ;-)


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Touchee, where did we meet?

 

[Matt J]

SJ, I have attached a survey of the area you mentioned earlier, are these home owners seriously trying to claim the land in front of the Public Beach Access?

 

[Smiling JOe]

So it sounds like the parking may be filled up in August and we shouldn't count on getting a spot.

Correct, hence my earlier comment about renting or bringing a bicycle or two, or three. Big Daddy's Bike Shop, located just over the hill, to the west, rents and delivers bicycles, and they are good people, too.

 

[Smiling JOe]

SJ, I have attached a survey of the area you mentioned earlier, are these home owners seriously trying to claim the land in front of the Public Beach Access?

I have not heard that, nor have I intended to state that in this thread. The properties which I was talking about in this particular thread are the Gulf front properties extending westward, from Big Redfish Lake, up to the Public Access at Hwy 83. The stretch of properties does include three public accesses to beaches which are being claimed as privately owned. The survey you posted is for the four properties to the immediate west of the 83 public access. My guess is that they will claim the beach in front of their properties, just as everyone to the west has done, up through The Retreat, except for the Redfish Village, which in a public County Meeting stated that they would dedicate the beach portion of their deeded property to the public, in order to get approval for building the restrooms and making it a private access for the owners in Redfish Village. (how crazy is this? Private Access to public beach vs public access to private beach. No wonder everyone is confused as to who owns what.)

 

[Matt J]

I have not heard that, nor have I intended to state that in this thread. The properties which I was talking about in this particular thread are the Gulf front properties extending westward, from Big Redfish Lake, up to the Public Access at Hwy 83. The stretch of properties does include three public accesses to beaches which are being claimed as privately owned. The survey you posted is for the four properties to the immediate west of the 83 public access. My guess is that they will claim the beach in front of their properties, just as everyone to the west has done, up through The Retreat, except for the Redfish Village, which in a public County Meeting stated that they would dedicate the beach portion of their deeded property to the public, in order to get approval for building the restrooms and making it a private access for the owners in Redfish Village. (how crazy is this? Private Access to public beach vs public access to private beach. No wonder everyone is confused as to who owns what.)

Okay, I just misread your previous post.

Is Redfish perhaps meaning that they won't enforce the wetsand/drysand boundary? In other words you can use it if you can get thru the barbed wire and dobermans on either side?

 

[kimbug]

My family has also decided to vacation at Sanctuary @ Redfish this summer. I hope we haven't made a bad decision to do so. We have stayed at Adagio for the past 3 summers and the beach there is getting so crowded. We were hoping for more privacy (and a larger condo) and have been told we should have that. I just hope the boat ride across the lake isn't too much of a hassle. We don't have small children, just a few teenagers who enjoy spending their time between the pool and beach. When I decided to take the place, I remembered reading the beginning of this thread when SJ gave it some nice reviews. Do you still think it's a decent place to vacation, SJ, or would you opt for something different? Our problem is that we need a place that sleeps at least 7 in beds (not sleeper sofa) as my 15 year old son has requested an actual bed this year. He's not spoiled; he's just 6 ft. tall and growing! We prefer southside of 30A with some sort of view of the beach so that cuts out many beautiful homes (which we'd have a walk to the beach anyway right).

 

[Smiling JOe]

gayboi, If Redfish Village did indeed dedicate the lower elevation of the beach to the public as they said they would, the public can use the beach. The public can walk across any beach, as I understand, without trespassing, so you could go down the 83 public access and walk west to that beach. However, don't try to go through the Private Access with restrooms. It is gated.

kimbug, I cannot answer your question. In the past, no one has tried to claim the beach to the east of the 83 access as private, but I saw the deed filed in Sept 2007, staking claim to the beach, so there may or may not be trouble. We'll see. Yes, the condos at Sanctuary at Redfish are nice, but there is no dedicated beach access for them, and they are not beach front. My guess is the boat shuttle is a fairly easy way to access the beach. I'm not sure if you tell the boat driver to pick you up in an hour, or what. They haven't had enough users to have a regular schedule. The only potential problem of walking to the beach at the hwy 83 access is that the property owners on both sides may try to kick you onto the wet sand. Not all of the owners to the west of that access have defended the beach as their own property, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them following suit. I'd guess the public access at 83 is maybe 75 ft wide, so if the property owners kick everyone onto that narrow stretch of beach, you could be thinking twice. Time will tell.