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[bluesqueak]

> Steve wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23383 :
> 
> << Are there uniquely wizarding ocean beaches hidden from muggle 
> view? >>
> 
Catlady replied:
<snip canon support>
> 
> That indicates that it is sufficiently normal for a sufficient 
> catalog of wizarding folk to holiday at Muggle watering-places 
> that Scamander felt no need to explain why that wizarding family 
> was at Ifracombe. My guess is that JKR doesn't think there are any 
> private wizarding ocean beaches in Britain, but personally I like 
> to believe that there is at least one, but it is very exclusive 
> and expensive (actually I put it on an islet which is concealed 
> from Muggles, which I named Aeaea after Circe's island).  

Pip!Squeak:

Technically there's no such thing in English law as a private beach -
 the area between lowest and highest tide is common land by 'time 
immemorial' law. That's legalese for 'no record now exists of the 
actual law, but we've been doing it this way for centuries'.

'Time immemorial' stuff dates to before the WW split off from the 
muggle world, so it's hard to see how wizards ever have been able to 
buy the actual beach.

What they might be able to purchase is the landward access to the 
beach. Most beaches described as 'private' are in that situation. 
Technically, anyone can use them, in practice the only access is 
some steep and rocky path *which is owned by the landholder*. You 
have to have their permission to use the access.

So they're effectively private, unless someone decides to sail or 
swim into them from the seaward side.

A concealed islet would be in that situation. Effectively private. 
But wizarding gatecrashers could access from the sea. And then 
couldn't be chucked off for trespassing, as long as they stayed 
below the highest tide line.

Pip!Squeak