50 years of beach days - Thank you Coastal Act

Since 1976, the California Coastal Commission has upheld the California Coastal Act, ensuring that your right to enjoy the coast is protected. Fifty years of unforgettable California experiences have been made possible by the Coastal Act. What memories has it made for you? Did you visit a favorite beach with your family, fish with your grandpa, learn to surf with friends, get engaged on the sand...? Please share your memory with us below, in whatever language you're most comfortable. If you'd like to share a photo, or a very short video, you can do that too. Help us celebrate the last 50 years, and look forward to 50 more.

1. Share your memory: *This question is required.

2. Optional: Upload a photo or very short video (maximum 50 Mb)

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3. How do you want to be publicly identified? It could be your full name, your first name only, or just an initial. *This question is required.

4. Optional: Tell us your email in case we want to follow up with you. This question requires a valid email address.

5. We may share your memory publicly to inspire and engage other people who love the California coast, such as on social media, our website, and in presentations.

By sharing your story and/or media, you warrant and represent that (1) you possess all rights, title, and ownership in the text or media, and grant the California Coastal Commission and its assignees and successors-in-interest a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free right to use, copy, store, cache, host, prepare derivative works, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly display and publish, redistribute, rebroadcast, and retransmit the shared text or media, and (2) your sharing of text or media will not infringe or misappropriate any third party's proprietary rights or rights of privacy or publicity or otherwise violate any rights of or cause injury to any person or entity. *This question is required.