When the hotel staff stopped me, i was at the waters edge, and when the ko'olina beach staff stopped me and told me i couldn't detect i was about 6 -10 ft in the water. I'll be giving ko'olina a call on Tuesday to challenge their BS ....
Hmmm, thanx for the clarification.
Who or what is "ko'olina" ? (sorry, I don't speak hawaiin
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Whatever channels you pursue to "get this over-turned", here's a word of caution: If this "pressing issue" winds its way through government bureaucratic channels there in Hawaii, you might open up other bags of worms. I mean whereas you might show that:
A) the public is not disallowed from being on the beach in front of that resort.
B) metal detecting is not disallowed on Hawaiian beaches. So therefore:
C) you should not have been booted.
Yet depending on how unhappy Disney is with this (trying to shoo away weirdos from being around their high-brow guests) , you could find them scrutinizing md'ing on OTHER grounds, to "get you away". In other words, swatting hornets nests. Like
D) what if someone starts citing "cultural heritage" issues ? After all, you *might* find an old coin. Or
E) "harvest and remove" statutes . That exist so no one start harvesting sand or palm trees for commercial purposes, yet *technically* could apply to seashells, coins, etc....
F) Lost & found issues. After all, you're "capitalizing off other's misfortunes" Right ? Last I checked, no Hawaiian md'rs are rushing to the police dept. with rings they find for proper repatriation attempts.
SO BACK UP FOR ONE MOMENT and tell us a tad more: When you were booted after 20 minutes, was it for the mere act of BEING THERE ? (like, they were trying to say the beach is for their guests only) ? Or was it for the act of
metal detecting ? If it was being 'scrammed' for merely being there, then that alone is the issue (leave the mention of "metal detecting" out of it).