Anyone and everyone that comes to Walton Co, or the entire state of Florida for that matter, needs to know of the elitist attitude around what should be a natural resource and free to use for all citizens - the beaches. The county and state statutes and ordinances allows a person with property abutting a beach to keep all land, across dry sand, and down to the mean high tide line, as off-limits. We have been coming to the FL panhandle in the Seaside area for 20+ years and today there is almost no place you go along the beach without sign after sign saying "private beach" or "no trespassing". We just spent the last 2 weeks here and paid good money to rent a house for one week (we had 7 people here) and a condo the second week (for just my wife and me) and also spent money in the area to eat out, by groceries, and shop yet the "thanks" we get is "sorry, you can't go out on this area of the beach, or that area, or, sorry, that one either". For the last 2 days a hired security guy was sitting out under an umbrella in front of 4 new condos going up at the corner of Beachside Dr and San Roy Rd, apparently being built by a Clifford Harbour, and was running off anyone who tried to set a chair or towel, etc., on the dry sand between these buildings and the water ... and they were still just under construction - no one was using them! I can't imagine how the people with houses just behind these must be reacting. This is ridiculous elitist attitude and unfortunately supported at the state level and lobbied for even by Mike Huckabee. I will likely stop supporting Walton Co and the state of FL for this reason. You should too.