Pioneer 'n' Tiff
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- May 6, 2007
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After having lunch with Tiff I took the kids to a nearby harbor inlet for a swim, some kite flying and a little MD (that was the plan)
The inlet is signed as owned by the Port of San Diego and the stretch of land is a beachfront/bikeway/path/toilets/swings etc. It is the site of the arrival of the Spanish in California 400 years ago. A couple of weeks ago I wanted to do the same thing but arrived to find 2000 kids on their first day out of school frolicking in the water. Today it was deserted so I whipped out the MD.
Within minutes I had puled some trash out of the lane between the low and high tide markers. Included in the trash was a hypodermic needle. About 10 minutes into the search this member of the public walks up and tells me that she is the lawful owner of the land and that should I find anything such as rings she is the owner.
This seemed strange to me but being that my inquiries so far revealed it was "public accessible land" but before I could question her on her ownership she also referenced that she hold mineral rights for the land and asked that I value the integrity of ownership. Discretion being the better part of valor I asked her for her name, which she gave, apologized for the intrusion and left the beach with the kids in tow, feeling that I may have been duped. Perhaps it's every Californian's right to entitlement or maybe it was just another MD.
Arriving home I'm tempted to write to the Port Authority with a general correspondence letter asking for confirmation of the ownership of the land before I go back there.
I'd be interested to hear your opinions of dealing with the public on similar situations
The inlet is signed as owned by the Port of San Diego and the stretch of land is a beachfront/bikeway/path/toilets/swings etc. It is the site of the arrival of the Spanish in California 400 years ago. A couple of weeks ago I wanted to do the same thing but arrived to find 2000 kids on their first day out of school frolicking in the water. Today it was deserted so I whipped out the MD.
Within minutes I had puled some trash out of the lane between the low and high tide markers. Included in the trash was a hypodermic needle. About 10 minutes into the search this member of the public walks up and tells me that she is the lawful owner of the land and that should I find anything such as rings she is the owner.
This seemed strange to me but being that my inquiries so far revealed it was "public accessible land" but before I could question her on her ownership she also referenced that she hold mineral rights for the land and asked that I value the integrity of ownership. Discretion being the better part of valor I asked her for her name, which she gave, apologized for the intrusion and left the beach with the kids in tow, feeling that I may have been duped. Perhaps it's every Californian's right to entitlement or maybe it was just another MD.
Arriving home I'm tempted to write to the Port Authority with a general correspondence letter asking for confirmation of the ownership of the land before I go back there.
I'd be interested to hear your opinions of dealing with the public on similar situations
