Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 07, 2025

Those were simpler times

David Geffen and the Malibu “mansion people” thought they OWNED the ocean?? This should be interested.

BTW, how many of those mansions were later lost in wildfires?

Didn’t the rich people find out they didn’t own access to the beaches, unlike Britian where the King owns the ocean floors for 12 miles out and all resources beneath the ocean floors

the “CROWN ESTATE” own the beaches and the seafloor – the “CROWN ESTATE” is in effect land owned by the country (public land) but being a constitutional monarchy its historic and complicated

basically technically owned by monarch but they don’t have any control or management of it, all income from it goes to the state and control rests with parliament not the king

So in fact in the UK there is 0% private ownership of beaches below the tideline

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Now those coast lines will be preserved from oil exploration and development.

Took awhile but don’t all good things. >

Google: Carbon Beach – Zonker Harris Access

All the little towns on t he North Jersey shore make you pay for beach access

Two things I admire about Minneapolis, situated in the Land of 10,000 Lakes (typical Midwestern modesty; the North Star State actually has over 30,000):

1) Every linear centimetre of lakefront shoreline in the city is publicly accessible.

2) Every middle school and most of the high schools are built immediately adjacent to a city park.

Legacy, local surfers not wanting to share “their” beaches is still a problem in SoCal.

Geffen lost, and is a whole lot less relevant now than he was then. Wonder if he ever figured out whose side he was on (in anything !) ??? ;-)

Nothing about “the more things change, the more things stay the same”?

Beach up to highest tide mark is public but the rich will do everything in their power to make you walk a mile to get to that beach.

Effen Geffen

Awful lot of people think this is something only the rich do.

I’ve seen far too many average homeowners who take pride in their underhanded ways of denying street parking in front of their houses, to the public it belongs to.

Rich or poor, some people are just freakin’ greedy.

They keep denying access even though the courts over rule them. They are selfish jerks

Meanwhile, back home, Sam is learning the value of self-sufficiency.

“WERK??!!”

And Maynard G. Krebs fai ts dead away.

Oregon opened the beaches to the public last century. (boy it sounds odd to say that) California is catching up.