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Idiots who leave tents pitched after sunset-0
Skunkape-2
Booyah!
Skunky, I need a few beach chairs for my renters. Can you get some for me?
Items on the beach overnight
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Skunky, I need a few beach chairs for my renters. Can you get some for me?
Skunky, I need a few beach chairs for my renters. Can you get some for me?
Like shooting fish in a barrel. Might they also need kites, skim boards, hats, tents, snorkels, masks, shovels, capri-sun, buckets, bottled water or balls as well? I can't bring them deep holes, but I can steer them toward a few if they can't enjoy the beach without having a crater in close proximity:angry:
Tonights final score-
Idiots who leave tents pitched after sunset-0
Skunkape-2
Booyah!
I love it! Hmmmmmmm.....I could use another big cooler with wheels on it! Why won't they leave one of those motorized rolling coolers? 
Seriously, why cant the TDC get the word out better? Can we not post signs at the beach access'? I have thought about printing out flyers about the turtles and the reasons NOT to leave your crap on the beach and each evening strolling my part of the beach and attaching them to peoples junk. Could this help?
TNJed is right, chair dudes work theirs off 7 days. Tough way to make a living. It looks good at a casual glance, but it is hard work.
We have used several different chair dudes depending on the location and all are grayt!!
Couple this problem with the traffic issue and maybe it makes sense to add a negative incentive for folks to come down. I know this is bordering on anarchy, but maybe a beach occupancy tax, beach access fee or something like that to limit the number of people there. At the rate things are going, this place will be over run in 5 to 10 years.
Might be something to think about...I heard the official TDC "heads in beds" count for the 4th of July holiday was 200,000 people
You go, boy!Tonights final score-
Idiots who leave tents pitched after sunset-0
Skunkape-2
Booyah!
I'm driving down on 8/26. There won't be any renters in our neighborhood the weekend before Labor Day weekend (never are). So anything left at our private beach walkover (paid for by the 7 owners in our neighborhood)is definitely abandoned by renters. I'm gonna clean up the beach, toss the broken stuff, and confiscate the rest for next summer's renters.
A tax or fee is not the way to limit the ever increasing numbers of people. Lobbying your county commissioners to stop approving dense projects - some more than the highest allowed density anywhere in the county - is!
A fee or tag on Joe Renter is spitting on a forest fire compared to things like the recently approved beach club megacomplex replacing the seagrove villas.
A fee or tag on Joe Renter is spitting on a forest fire compared to things like the recently approved beach club megacomplex replacing the seagrove villas.
Very well said.
On the subject of items left on the beach overnight, here is a photo of the tracks of a LoggerHead Turtle which came onto the beach to lay her eggs, and apparently ran into the chair and umbrella:
(photo from SW Turtle Watch)
From Turtle Watch's website: "This loggerhead female had to go between chairs and hit an umbrella just to nest way to low and also in the Lake outfall, so this nest was moved. It
had 85 eggs and the poor sea turtle was confused by the chairs and then the glow from the west. She traveled over 300 feet westward going almost to the water twice and then going back up and finally to the water. Poor turtle. To many things on our beaches as you know and also to much bad lights."
Items are not allowed on the beach at night - no exceptions.
Every home visible from the water is supposed to go through the DEP to get its light fixtures and lamp wattage approved.
WHY CAN'T WE ENFORCE ANY OF THIS?
I would think the $$ from fines would offset any additional staffing costs.
Every home visible from the water is supposed to go through the DEP to get its light fixtures and lamp wattage approved.
WHY CAN'T WE ENFORCE ANY OF THIS?
I would think the $$ from fines would offset any additional staffing costs.
May i add, those chairs and umbrella are NOT rentals. I can tell from the PVC pole and table attached to the umbrella. No company I know uses these and no self-respecting chair dude would use a PVC pipe to dig a hole in the sand.
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Hey, if you find a couch or lamp, I need that! My daughter just moved into her own apartment. Anything will be greatly appreciated!