Oracle founder Larry Ellison reportedly owns 10 properties on Carbon Beach. Tanza Loudenback/Business Insider
Up until mid-2015, the beach was largely closed off to the public. But now, after a decades-long, complicated legal battle between the state and homeowners, its 70-plus residences share their backyard with tourists and beachgoers from sun up to sun down.
We took a walk down Billionaire's Beach on a recent summer day - scroll through to take a peek at what it's like to live and play on the richest stretch of sand in the world.