[Swimmer]

I have been reading what a few of the guys have said about beach permits for the county beach in Edgartown and the word is on the money as far as night and day are concerned. One can generally motor anywhere after 5 p.m., because the sherriffs department cannot afford to put a guy out there after 5 p.m. The last couple of years the deputy tried to keep people from traversing the beach just to travel to Wasque a couple of times. I just drove right by him and pointed to the back road as if I had no intention of stopping anywhere, but I do know that he stopped a friend of mine from doing that one morning. That type of enforcement didn't last long though, just a couple of days. At night you can drive and stop anywhere, just not my spot.
As far as driving around the Trustees property, if anyone thinks they are going to go anywhere anytime without a sticker you are seriously mistaken. Big Paul and his subordinates are an actioive bunch of people and nice people to boot. If you drive on there property you will have to have a sticker. If you join the Trustees the sticker is only $80.00. Thats a good deal considering how many propeties the Trustees oversee, which joining would allow you into all of them. Otherwise the sticker is $160.00 big ones. And I have to tell you the first year I went out there without a sticker an old fart saw that I didn't have one and ran right over to Big Paul and dimed me out. Little did the rat know I was driving in Pauls direction on the beach to buy the sticker. But where there is one rat there are many so beware. There is nothing like tooling down the ebach in your 4 x 4 drinking your favorite beverage scoping out the shoreline. You know I think the derby should last eight or twelve weeks, not four or five.