by Tex » Tue Aug 13, 2019 4:06 pm
We were up in the SOJD last winter. We had local access to a beach that required surfers to not walk on the beach. This guy comes prancing down the beach and gets chewed out by one of the old hags that always patrols. The dude paddles out to the line up and is talking shite about her. He is talking about how lame she is....while he is breaking the rules, (we had to kayak out to the point) and I absolutely went off on him for not respecting the rules of the place. I just snapped. Its not easy getting there and we had to anchor off the beach and my buddy lives just two houses down from that old enforcer, she has actually yelled at his daughters for walking her property. Long story short, I am rarely in a place to claim local status, in fact there is really just that one spot up in WA. But I felt like shite afterwards, I certainly did not surf any better. Still, minimum expectation is that surfers just follow posted rules about property access.