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Yep, I noticed the second appearance down the beach!

[ATTACH] I found this to be an interesting development: Mr. Uhlfelder has posted pics of new ropes up on the east and west boundaries of Seaside...

So the 65’ of public beach in Watersound dedicated to the public goes 65’ from east to west? I was under the impression that it was 65’ depth...

Where is beach renourishment needed in 30A? The beaches I’ve used seem to recover from tropical storms and hurricanes pretty well on their own....

Thank you for the thorough response, @Dave Rauschkolb. I appreciate you taking the time to address the angles and questions I brought up. I hope I...

What is the sand quality like there? I don’t think I’ve been on the beach in that area since 1994!

As a non-property owner but frequent visitor to SoWal and occasional visitor to other beaches from Cape San Blas, FL to Orange Beach, FL, I’m...

I asked Dave Rauschkolb (and the SoWal readership as a whole) a similar question back in late June or early July, and I think I included all of...

What beach/community?

I’ve been visiting the area frequently since around 1986, but I don’t live there, nor do I own property there, but my wife and kids and other...

Invest it in acquiring additional public beachfront width and parking instead of expanding into additional geographic TV ad markets. Quit trying...

I run through that area as there are some trails and sandy timber roads that connect Pt Washington State Forest and Deer Lake State Park including...

Board of County Commissioners

Something tells me the study will advise them to expand the geographic reach of their TV ad campaigns into more “departure to ECP” market$! Cause...

I was thinking the same thing! I think my daughter has a toy shovel bigger than that!

Unfortunately, that’s pretty much what the BCC allows the chair vendors to do on 50% of the beach access sand.

Nothing at all, but if someone wants to take a chair and sit in it, and an umbrella, that’s fine too, as long as they take it all when they leave...

No, and I didn’t meant to imply that y’all are part of the problem, because if you’re renting them and sitting in them, then you're putting the...

Fortunately one of the culprits of that relationship just got voted out!

You can be respectful visitors and be respected as tourists. I completely understand your needs for renting chairs that a vendor sets up for you....

I understand, and to each their own, but for our family of 4, we’re able to haul our backpack chairs, a cooler and umbrella, and whatever boards...

The customary use/beach issue IS the umbrella issue that is the subject of Beachma’s experience in this post because the beach chair vendors are...

So Mike Huckabee, the klan, and Russia are all involved in the customary use battle; what about MS-13, or #BLM?

That’s what I thought: they basically just pass the torch and keep a slight majority, with Anderson being in their camp too, and that coalition...

Wow, so the klan is involved too? What about Russia?

Why would anyone have voted for Scott Brannon? To ease development restrictions even more? Wasn’t that part of his platform, or at least the...

[ATTACH] Surviving for the time being...

It seems that current BCC legislation enables chair vendor control of much of the limited resource of the public beach accesses, but it also seems...

Who do you believe to be Mr. Huckabee among us?

Is he behind the editorial?

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But I think the issue is starting to surface as being “paying customers” or GHOST “paying customers.” THAT is what is cutting into the scarce...

I’m sure the founding fathers of our republic never fathomed cabana boys in polo shirts being the constitutional arbiters of life, liberty, and...

So, can people also or alternately bring their own chairs/umbrellas to set up and sit on the beaches at Sandestin, Tops’l, Watercolor, Seaside,...

The problem is that some of the #BuildBuildBuild and #TourismTourismTourism people keep overmarketing the area and annually expanding the...

Speaking of mass transit on 30A, PLEASE don’t bring these to 30A; tourism WILL survive even if the area lacks this cheesy trash...

And I now understand that Seaside opens up its “central” beach area as “public,” but if “public beach” is the claim of customary use advocates...

Heck, I think the Customary Use advocates AND the beachfront property owners have a common grievance against the beach chair rental mafia! I know...

But isn’t the beach in front of the “private accesses” actually PUBLIC property according to the customary use concept? Isn’t that what the...

Ok, that’s great to know that we can all now use what equates to a large regional public beach access at your restaurant. So that I’m clear, I...

So perhaps I should ask Dave: Could my family and I come and park our vehicle in a public parking space near the beachfront restaurant and then...

Is it possible that the area is being over-marketed and over-developed? When county commissioners, tourism officials and local business owners...

The trails have always been accessible from the roadside right there if you know where to look, so they’re not really “giving” the public anything...

I hate to hear this. I'll miss their wood-fire grilled steaks and my wife will miss the prime rib. I'd rather places like AJ's stay in places...

You can access those trails (the Eastern Lake Trail from 395 and to the East) from the Cassine Trail in Seagrove and an unmarked trailhead across...

My experience over 2 trips this summer June 10-21 and then June 29-July 7 was that most days, my Weather and AccuWeather iPhone apps showed the...

Yep; looking at the aerial map, I see that the water tank is between the 2 industrial buildings with settlement ponds, and Mack Bayou isn't far...

Is that next to a water tank? If there's a reservoir or retention pond nearby, that's where the gator's hanging out!

Yes, they're all over Mobile Bay and the brackish estuaries off of it.