Beach Fires & Contradiction
Taken by me at Ocean Beach in San Francisco.
What to do? No Fires yet beach fires permitted in certain areas. I've seen the beach and very recently where beach fires and partying takes place all hours of the night and result in small stretches of the beach looking like a war zone. Either completely allow it and have a beach cleanup plan in place on a regular basis or don't allow it at all and have the park police enforcing the law.
Ocean beach is beautiful. I remember spending countless hours throughout my life at this beach and now not even being able to walk along certain stretches of the shore because of the debris and garbage. The city needs to wake up and do something. Your thoughts?
Comments
Anon, That makes perfect sense to me. The problem out here is that the regular police have no jurisdiction on the actual beach so it falls upon the park police who do nothing. I think the city and Mayor's office needs to look into the problem. I was there the other day taking photos and along one stretch between about Noriega and Rivera actually looked like a war zone. I was shocked.
On another note I love Santa Cruz and haven't been there in a long while. It's gorgeous out there. Thanks for commenting.
dawn, that is a great idea and a good compromise. Thanks.
betchai, exactly with all the littering and garbage it just is not safe in some areas.
Self, Yes they are relaxing but someone needs to clean up afterwards. Thank you.
Carmen, It is very sad. The stretch from Pacheco to Santiago looks worse than a war zone and nothing is being done.