Rcgibbert_at_aol.com wrote: > As for surfing, localism is not nearly as defined [here in WA] as in CA. > Our most crowded break in Westport we can go anywhere we'd like. > However, if we go to the jetty, with usually the best breaks, it is more > crowded. I don't need that. Rob's experience is similar to what you might see in OR, with most beaches "open" to whomever, with no restrictions of the official or surfcultural sort on who paddles where. OTOH, the premium, world class spots with narrowly defined takeoff zones are "policed" (waaay too nice a word) by the local boardheads as their turf, and nonlocals have a hard time becoming accepted, let alone folks in kayaks. For instance, I have never seen a surf kayak surf the point break at Seaside, OR's Cove. On the finance side, most OR State parks have an entrance fee of some sort for access to day use of the developed part, but no fee just to park and look at the ocean. As in CA, revenue shrinkage, some by voter fiat, some by the effects of the times, has diminished the jewel of Oregon State Parks. I might mention that, __by State law_, revenues at the gate to OR State Parks must stay within the coffers of the Parks system. Don't know if that is the case in CA, but parks are costly to run. I suspect you get your money's worth, particularly if you look at the other costs of our sport, the access fees are minimal. They could buy some political power, albeit invisible unless identified as coming from paddlers. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 09 2007 - 10:16:57 PDT
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