06-22-2006, 02:39 AM
it always comes down to gates and fences, once a few people buy up property surrounding a great spot, they want it for themselves, and soon they start coming up with(sometimes valid)excuses why they want to keep out the people.i understand the part about it being accessed by a private road, but most subdivisions in puna are private roads,so were're all in the same boat as far as that's concerned. i haven't been down there for awhile, but it seems like there is one main road in and then it turns into a rocky road, how does the traffic destroy the paved part? maybe a possible solution would be to put up a donation box? when i lived in the northwest there was a great beach on the columbia which the access road was owned by a farmer and he simply put up a $1 donation box which everyone gladly paid to drive on his road. if he would have put up a gate it would have been torn down anyway so it was a good solution for both sides. aloha