La Ropa news

The sign on the beach, that just came down said closed 'indefinitely." There was a schedule posted for yoga, but again, the sign has been removed.

The beach toy rental guys in front know nothing at all, and are concerned as to their future.

Dogs are absolutely not allowed on the beach.

NO buses are allowed past Playa Kyoto, including the van size ones.

That's the latest.

La Ropa is just too depressing a place to enjoy visiting for me anymore. I'd rather stick to my nice memories than lament the bad planning, careless and greedy building, lost trees, lost footpaths, lost wildlife, and lost community we used to enjoy there. I refuse to visit a beach where police ambush, kidnap and harm a person and their dog for walking on the beach at dawn before any of the beach workers would normally be there. Too trumpian for me. I'd always hoped sanity and love for the community and natural beauty would prevail.

"Florida can never really come to grips with saving the environment because a very large percentage of the population at any given time just got there. So why should they fight to turn the clock back? It looks great to them the way it is. Two years later, as they are beginning to feel uneasy, a few thousand more people are just discovering it all for the first time and wouldn't change a thing. And meanwhile the people who knew what it was like twenty years ago are an ever-dwindling minority, a voice too faint to be heard."
John D. MacDonald, "The Empty Copper Sea" (1978)

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"I get the feeling that this is the last time in history when the offbeats like me will have a chance to live free in the nooks and crannies of the huge and rigid structure of an increasingly codified society. Fifty years from now I would be hunted down in the street. They would drill little holes in my skull and make me sensible and reliable and adjusted."
Travis McGee from "The Quick Red Fox" (1964) John D. MacDonald