It used to be that way in Australia as well. Don't know how it is these days, but from my last trip to Queensland I seem to recall Japanese resort developments that had closed off public access to sections of beach, so perhaps the laws have changed. Or my recollection may be faulty. Maybe someone in Oz could bring us up to date. Ira On 7/8/00 8:23 PM Donald R. Reid (dreid_at_andetur.com) wrote: [snip] > >I have lived in Brazil off and on for over 20 years ... and >it is very interesting there in the fact that all marine >land is considered public domain from 15 - 25 meters from >the high water line. There all no private beaches .... they >belong to the people of Brazil ... called 'marine land'. >There are no fences allowed on 'marine land'. [big snip] *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jul 09 2000 - 09:33:37 PDT
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