I was arrested in 2007 at that beach. A while back I put together a Web site that tells my story. If you're interested, you can read about it here: My Day At the Beach.
The campaign of intimidation continues and it really makes that stretch of beach a very uncomfortable place to be. You can be drifting off or relaxing and all of a sudden a guard appears and tells you you have to leave. It really is a shame that all the beauty and peacefulness of the beach continues to be disrupted by this ongoing campaign.
More than anything, I feel sad for those living in the condo and in the Retreat who keep pursuing this because they obviously aren't at peace with themselves so they reflect it back to the rest of us. We can't reflect it back but we can resist their efforts. The campaign, if it is successful, will amount to theft because the land seaward of the mean high water line (MHWL) is public land and preventing the public from using it is a kind of theft.
Those who believe that the area seaward of the MHWL is always under water are wrong. It is only under water some of the time and some of the time it is high and dry. Also, the MHWL is not necessarily where the high tide occurred the day before. It can be seaward of that, exactly that, or landward of that. This is because the line is the average of high tides taken over a long period of time (19 years).
Anyway, it sure is a shame that the public cannot enjoy public lands without constantly being harassed. I was hoping that this would stop and we could all partake of this beautiful natural resource in peace and harmony with it.
The campaign of intimidation continues and it really makes that stretch of beach a very uncomfortable place to be. You can be drifting off or relaxing and all of a sudden a guard appears and tells you you have to leave. It really is a shame that all the beauty and peacefulness of the beach continues to be disrupted by this ongoing campaign.
More than anything, I feel sad for those living in the condo and in the Retreat who keep pursuing this because they obviously aren't at peace with themselves so they reflect it back to the rest of us. We can't reflect it back but we can resist their efforts. The campaign, if it is successful, will amount to theft because the land seaward of the mean high water line (MHWL) is public land and preventing the public from using it is a kind of theft.
Those who believe that the area seaward of the MHWL is always under water are wrong. It is only under water some of the time and some of the time it is high and dry. Also, the MHWL is not necessarily where the high tide occurred the day before. It can be seaward of that, exactly that, or landward of that. This is because the line is the average of high tides taken over a long period of time (19 years).
Anyway, it sure is a shame that the public cannot enjoy public lands without constantly being harassed. I was hoping that this would stop and we could all partake of this beautiful natural resource in peace and harmony with it.
