re: Beach rules in Walton County, Florida

The “wet sand line” leaves a few hundred yards of beach at low tide at many beaches, especially where I live making this effectively useless. This law is just an update of a similar law that has been in effect for a very long time. This law doesn’t change much in reality.

That said, the panhandle was built for tourism and beach access is made intentionally difficult. On most of the east coast it’s the exact opposite Wirt public access points every 50-100 yards for miles on end.

And like others mentioned, rarely does the propert owner actually own that sliver of sand between the high tide line and their house. Almost never.