ACCESS THREATENED ... AGAIN.

[ricki]

I just spoke with the new manager at Crandon Park in Miami. Fl to get an update on things related to kiteboarding. He has been advocating kiteboarding with higher ups in County Government but he said that things haven't been going well.

** Whenever people from the Parks Department visit Crandon Park, they see kiteboarders riding south, inside the OUT OF BOUNDS swim area AND too close to the children in the Nature Center tours of the turtle grass. **

There have been rules in place for YEARS forbidding this but some people don't seem to care.

As a result, the planned permitting of the kiteboarding schools MAY NOT happen. Kiteboarding may be banned entirely at Crandon Park.


I have heard similar complaints AND from local government authorities in Ft. Lauderdale about kiteboarders riding inside the swim area buoys and among swimmers after the guards have left. Interestingly enough, some of these same riders have been contributing to complaints at Crandon, althought not all of the complaints obviously.


This isn't complex. Looking after our privaledge to ride isn't rocket science. If we don't collectively give a damn about our access we will likely lose it.

We need to talk to folks that are putting OUR access at risk as effectively as we can. Ideas on this are welcome.

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Thanks!