Remember when Cecil B. DeMille filmed the movie in the dunes in the ’30s and nobody complained?
There have been vehicle activities in the dunes ever since.
Remember in the ’70s during vacations, big three- and four-day holidays, and spring breaks when all the motorhomes pulling their sand vehicles with all their families and friends came to the dunes? They were five deep as far as the eye could see from Oceano to Devils Slide.
Remember when the newspapers reported there were 100,000 plus folks playing in the dunes and all the motels around were full?
And remember when all these families were playing in the dunes and all the complaints about dust and pollution came about? Yeah! Right!
Nobody complained!
There wasn’t any! Nobody complained and everybody was having fun.
So let’s leave the dunes alone. It won’t be long before these same folks doing the complaining will find something else to complain about.
This article appears in Apr 1-8, 2010.
