"There all no private beaches .... they belong to the people of Brazil ... called 'marine land'. There are no fences allowed on 'marine land'." "It used to be that way in Australia as well." Laws regarding land ownership are State matters in Australia, so the situation may vary around the country. I don't know about Queensland. In my part of Australia, Victoria, generally the coast is public land. That is not to say that camping is allowed. "No camping" signs are liberally sprinkled near popular surfing areas, and elsewhere. We have had an ongoing controversy on the southern shores of Port Phillip Bay, where a trucking millionaire with a cliff top mansion erected posts on the public beach below to exclude others, and erected a "boat shed" sufficient to accommodate his live-in staff. Fortunately, other rich locals wouldn't put up with any interference to their morning walk along the beach. Some of the best paddling coast is protected by National Parks, including Wilson's Promontory, the southernmost part of the Australian mainland. This place is so popular at Christmas and warm weather holiday weekends, that ballots are run for camping bookings. No problems last weekend though, in the middle of winter there is plenty of camping. Regards, PT. *************************************************************************** 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 - 14:28:33 PDT
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