The Real Civil War's Gonna Start on 30A!...

This has been brewing for years. My grandfather has a place in Dune Allen and the micro public beaches and giant houses they’ve been building back in the neighborhoods are making it a significant issue.

Got into an altercation last year with people reserving beach spots that had no right to. It’s usually the dude decked out in LSU gear, LSU tents, LSU labeled everything that never stepped foot in a classroom.

I’ve been to 30A a handful of times. We knew each time what our access to the beach would be like. We arent big on the beach so it’s not a big deal to us.

I really don’t have a strong opinion one way or the other. I could never go back to 30A and I would be just fine. I will say that the restaurant owner needs to be careful about what he wishes for.

This guy and the entire narrative is dishonest. It's not beach front property owners that only have access, it's a private beach that is owned by the community ie Rosemary, Seacrest, Alys, Seaside, etc. Those communities spend millions maintaining the dunes and beach. Most folks going to that area on vacation are staying in one of those communities and have beach access. If you stay off 98, you are driving to a beach anyway. Just drive to one of the many state park beaches. They are never crowded.

The primary reason most of these communities added gates on their beach walkovers and became more restrictive with the beach access is because of theft and poor behaving, unsupervised teens.

The guy claiming he is worried about tourism all the while spreading lies about beach access online which hurts tourism. Makes sense.

A simple solution to this problem. The local government and county should take the position that it's a civil matter regarding public using "private" beach space. Let the private owners serve a lawsuit against each individual beach goer that is "trespassing". This would be one such a burden on the owners claiming private beach that they would have to accept it is what it is.

Also, do the private beach owners have to abide by the beach patrol enforcements. When the county beach patrol closes the water due to rip currents, does that enforcement apply to private beach as well?? If yes, then it would appear the private beach does not have authority over the water.