Greetings!My husband and I not had the financial ability to enjoy a vacation every year during our thirty years of marriage. Our first “beach” vacation was to a lovely bed and breakfast on Lake Erie. We than began visiting Gulf Shores, staying at The Big Beach House B & B on Fort Morgan. After the B & B closed, we decided we would explore Pensacola Beach, which we visited a number of times; it was wonderful, especially the Margaritaville Beach Hotel. Then, someone suggested we visit 30A; we’ve never looked back. We have stayed from Inlet Beach to Miramar. (Seagrove is our favorite.) Now that my husband and I are both retired, we are visiting the first week of October. We’ve never been in the fall, so we are really looking forward to it.
We are homeowners in St. Louis and just this morning my husband was ranting about a neighbor walking his dog across our front lawn. While we can appreciate the frustration of the beach-front property owners, we also feel that there should be some reasonable compromise. Limiting beach-goers to only the wet sand area is incredibly restrictive, especially depending on the tide and other conditions. Since the dunes are protected areas, no one is in the beach-front owners’ backyards. My husband and I are very careful to leave no trace when we visit the beach for the day. Most always we pick up after others as well. We do feel that the number of canopies on the beach has become obtrusive, so restrictions and rules need to be put in place and enforced. We also agree that the beach vendors need restrictions as well so that they do not take over the beach.
Hopefully, the beach issues will be resolved in a fair and equitable manner so that those of us who must travel to visit the gorgeous Gulf Coast will be welcomed without fear of being fined or possibly arrested. Thanks for listening!
Cheers!
