Other beachgoers looked on with a mix of delight and discomfort as the debate raged.
Who owns shade? I stood on the beach with my toes pugged into the hot sand asking myself the question. If I arrange a shadow to be cast, is it mine? Or might a squatter claim it? In a public place where shade has become valuable, what are the proprietary limits on it?
Each CoolCabana owner naturally enough lays claim to the square of sand inside its four legs. But the sun was to the north, throwing the square of shade each made out to the south alongside, but not beneath, the shelter itself. Does a CoolCabana owner claim this wayward shade as well as the land beneath his or her accoutrement? I was about to find out.Most owners were alongside their shelter, having moved out into the southern shade.
But our spectators were also troubled, because most had erected beach shelters themselves and were sitting to the south of them in their shade. If I triumphed in this dispute, their claim to terra nullius was overthrown – they had inadvertently purchased shade for their neighbours, for strangers, for Goths and other pallid heliophobes ... their whole sun-smart M.O. was blown to smithereens and each would lose half their beachly domain.
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