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in this section:  Shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand photos and caption by Eric Jackson Above we see some new
construction in the mangroves behind the municipal cemetery in San
Carlos. It seems that the land was sold by the city. How legal is this?
That's a good question. Public property on the beaches is supposed to
go inland from the high water mark --- but mangroves by their very
nature are within the high water mark, at least part of the time.
Just the other side of the mangroves from this construction we see a beach that people use (below). And then at the bottom, on the other side of the river --- actually at this point across a little tidal estuary --- we see a business offering lodging to tourists, also built on the sand. Laws, customary uses, who has political influence or family ties with whom --- all of these things may be interesting questions, but they're all beside the point. It's not exactly a new discovery that building on the sand isn't a good idea. It was already ancient wisdom when, nearly two millennia ago, St. Matthew in his Gospel described the man who builds on the sand as a fool, without feeling the need to explain why.   Also
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