People poo-pooing on the Beach

[Paula]

My favorite umbrellas are those little one-person ones that are easy to carry to the beach and attach to a beach chair. You can get the umbrellas for about $5.00 and lightweight beach chairs for about $10.00. I found the chairs at Walmart and the umbrellas at a place up north but Walmart may have those as well.

 

[Kurt]

Hey Folks, As my wife, a teacher of 24 years says, if you consider the average IQ is 100, why be stressed over the obvious. The lower half of the intelligence scale usually ruins things for everyone whether it be talking at the theatre, driving slowly in the passing lane, leaving items on the beach. Income probably has less to do with it although one could argue a correlation with smarts and personal wealth. I think more visitors equals greater trash issues. I try to pick up what flotsam I can when I visit.

Bob I always figured you for a young guy. Either you married someone much older or you're young at heart?

 

[Kurt]

Problem is, many of us rednecks can't even spell "concentousness" - let alone know what it means...

By the way, this redneck leaves nothin' but footprints on the beach and takes a bag along to pick up others' trash when on my daily walk.

:clap_1:

 

[Smiling JOe]

I guess all of the "poor" people, who store there poo-poo under the walkovers at Seaside, will leave their mark all over the beaches when TS Arlene comes to visit.

 

[Bob]

Kurt, I'm 49. Married ,two teenage daughters and a dog. Do not pass this on. Was at the beach this past week. Left before Arlene. Picked up my Sowal stickers at Seagrove Market. There's now a Nissan pickup driving around Orlando w/ "SoWal" in the back window. Met Ollie this past week having lunch at the Red Bar w/ a certain Realtor "everyone knows". If you want to see drastic change, take a look at the excavation between Little/Big Redfish Lake. Not good. Am sure the Bannerman family is "well" financially. We noticed more trash on the beach this year and used our plastic Publix shopping bags to store beach flotsam. The good news is that I saw a few others doing the same.

 

[Kurt]

Kurt, I'm 49. Married ,two teenage daughters and a dog. Do not pass this on. Was at the beach this past week. Left before Arlene. Picked up my Sowal stickers at Seagrove Market. There's now a Nissan pickup driving around Orlando w/ "SoWal" in the back window. Met Ollie this past week having lunch at the Red Bar w/ a certain Realtor "everyone knows". If you want to see drastic change, take a look at the excavation between Little/Big Redfish Lake. Not good. Am sure the Bannerman family is "well" financially. We noticed more trash on the beach this year and used our plastic Publix shopping bags to store beach flotsam. The good news is that I saw a few others doing the same.

:wink:

Yeah I recycle those bags the same way. Thanks to you and everyone else for helping to promote the site. :clap_1:

 

[phdphay]

Only 3 days into the season, and already people are leaving crap all over the Beach. I've seen cigarette butts, dog poop, perma tents, beer cans, beer bottles, plastic bottles, plastic shovels and buckets, orange army men, inflatable swimming pools, etc. If I had a dump truck and a loader, I would have cleaned up much more than I did.

Please help keep our beaches clean. If you cannot haul your poop off the Beach at the end of the day, perhaps you should reconsider how much crap you should bring. If people keep this up, I will take action. Consider yourself warned.

Okay, so let me get my beach etiquette straight. We're owners, not renters. I'd really like the leave our tent out during our next two-week stay because my husband and I have both had some skin cancer. My husband had open-heart surgery last summer, so setting up a tent every day would be out of the question for him. I'm not strong enough to do it. We can put away the chairs. So, would our plan be a breach of beach etiquette? We called a beach chair rental person, but they wanted $25 a day times 2 weeks - outrageous!

 

[BeachDreamer]

Is there a difference between the etiquette rules for owners, and renters? From what I can tell, a tent left overnight could obstruct turtles whether the tent belongs to one or the other. I haven't figured out why it's okay for beach chair rental services to leave their stuff out though...

I like the beach chair with umbrella idea. Or failing that, a bigger umbrella or maybe a dome shade tent that could be picked up and moved easily without breaking it down.

 

[Smiling JOe]

So, would our plan be a breach of beach etiquette?

Not a question of beach etiquette, but beach law in Walton County.

 

[phdphay]

Is there a difference between the etiquette rules for owners, and renters? From what I can tell, a tent left overnight could obstruct turtles whether the tent belongs to one or the other. I haven't figured out why it's okay for beach chair rental services to leave their stuff out though...

I like the beach chair with umbrella idea. Or failing that, a bigger umbrella or maybe a dome shade tent that could be picked up and moved easily without breaking it down.

Well, since I pay about $100,000 a year for mortgage, taxes, and insurance to be there, and a renter doesn't, I should get a few privileges, don't ya think? It's not a matter of etiquette. Even an Easy-Up Tent is difficult to set up and break down when you have health problems. You'll understand when you're over 50. I'd like to be in my 20's, but physically I'm not there.