The wife's out again this week and she doesn't like hot weather anyway, so I made a short return visit to Blind Creek Beach near Ft. Pierce today. It's nice that it's only a little more than an hour away from our house. It's much closer than Haulover and about the same distance from home as Playalinda, which I still consider somewhat unsettled. Plus, we know the county sheriff who has justification there very well, which makes going there a bit awkward.
It was mostly cloudy when I got Blind Creek and it was a pleasant 83 degrees. But within a few hours, it was 90+ with more sun than I needed after a few hours. The water at least was delightfully cool. My informal count was around 100 nude people, expanding to probably over 150 by the time I left. They're off to a good start and I suspect Memorial Day Weekend will have more people there than I'd be comfortable around.
The Treasure Coast Naturists put some signs up before I left and I was generous with a contribution on the way out. They pay, not the county, for the porta-potties and their servicing.
I notice that I get a much deeper and more even tan at the beach than I do in my own back yard. Probably because of the UV backscatter from the sand and water, and the more uniform exposure as one walks along the beach than one gets just laying out in the yard.
Either way, my dermatologist never says anything about my burn free even tan when he examines me. I wonder what a black doctor, such as himself, thinks about white people who deliberately try to darken their skin against their advice. I have a massage this week which I routinely remove everything under the sheet, and I'll have a general annual physical in a couple of weeks where the way that doctor does it, it's obvious that I'm responsibly tanned everywhere. Never in decades of being exampled by these professionals has anyone questioned how I got so tanned.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Friday, May 19, 2017
Naked Pictures of your Kids
Ever since the invention of the film camera, parents have been taking naked pictures of their kids. My mother certainly had plenty of such photos of us from infant "bare rug" shots, to us in the tub or kiddie pool together, to us just running around and playing naked, which was pretty much our right at home when it was just family around.
That was back in the day when the clerk at the store would check the photos on arrival for quality, but before anyone would ever think to question any parent about those shots. Mom would torture us by showing off the photos to her friends, but in the end, we stopped caring. My wife even used a few of the shots with my older sister and I on a poster board she made for my 50th birthday party. I took some ribbing about "now we know what you look like naked" from friends and co-workers. If they only knew...
Further revealing my age, our son is married and now has a son and a daughter of his own. I married my wife with her family in progress from an earlier marriage to a jerk who would have made our lives miserable if I tried to raise "his" kids as nudists. Our son (technically, my step-son) is married to a wonderful, but very conservative lady who I doubt approves of casual nudity, period. Her husband, our son, certainly knows his mother and I are pretty casual about it between the two of us, but he doesn't know all the details of my background in social naturism, the way our daughter does.
Either way, it's sad to watch them so ruthlessly clothe their kids. Around their house, bathing and diaper changing is the only time they're not compulsively imprisoned in clothing. We go up and visit about once a month for a few nights at a time and sometimes when they're away we let the kids play in their kiddie pool, diaper free.
The last time we were up and the two were away, my wife went a bit crazy taking several dozens of pictures of their kids, completely naked, in their pool and running around the yard with me in the pictures. Granted, they have a huge back yard which is completely fenced in, but I'm quite sure their mother would not approve, even though my wife and I stayed clothed.
When my wife asked me to send the pictures from the visit, I "neglected" to send the naked pictures, and I got roundly chewed out by her because of that. I guess I'm still sensitive about being a nudist male and people assuming that I must be some kind of pervert, even a potential pedophile, for being around naked kids.
That was back in the day when the clerk at the store would check the photos on arrival for quality, but before anyone would ever think to question any parent about those shots. Mom would torture us by showing off the photos to her friends, but in the end, we stopped caring. My wife even used a few of the shots with my older sister and I on a poster board she made for my 50th birthday party. I took some ribbing about "now we know what you look like naked" from friends and co-workers. If they only knew...
Further revealing my age, our son is married and now has a son and a daughter of his own. I married my wife with her family in progress from an earlier marriage to a jerk who would have made our lives miserable if I tried to raise "his" kids as nudists. Our son (technically, my step-son) is married to a wonderful, but very conservative lady who I doubt approves of casual nudity, period. Her husband, our son, certainly knows his mother and I are pretty casual about it between the two of us, but he doesn't know all the details of my background in social naturism, the way our daughter does.
Either way, it's sad to watch them so ruthlessly clothe their kids. Around their house, bathing and diaper changing is the only time they're not compulsively imprisoned in clothing. We go up and visit about once a month for a few nights at a time and sometimes when they're away we let the kids play in their kiddie pool, diaper free.
The last time we were up and the two were away, my wife went a bit crazy taking several dozens of pictures of their kids, completely naked, in their pool and running around the yard with me in the pictures. Granted, they have a huge back yard which is completely fenced in, but I'm quite sure their mother would not approve, even though my wife and I stayed clothed.
When my wife asked me to send the pictures from the visit, I "neglected" to send the naked pictures, and I got roundly chewed out by her because of that. I guess I'm still sensitive about being a nudist male and people assuming that I must be some kind of pervert, even a potential pedophile, for being around naked kids.
Dealing with Guests
Whenever we have house guests, I'm reminded how much work it is for those who hide themselves in their own homes all the time. Doors have to be closed when one is changing, sleeping, or getting in or out of the shower, you have to be "properly" dressed all the times, and don't get me started on having to wear a bathing suit in the pool and hot tub with them :( What a drag!
My wife is much more likely to "out" me when people unexpectedly drop in, than I am with her. She'll just say I'm out back, naked, sunning himself, working in the yard, or swimming. She'll then come get me (meaning she'll ask that I at least put a towel around myself before I come in). I'm pretty sure that if they were to say it wouldn't bother them, she'd just let them come out and I'd be perfectly fine with it.
On the rare occasion that a neighbor or delivery person has gone through the fence and run into me naked, I've acted no differently than if I were clothed and let it be on them for coming in unannounced.
One of my wife's sisters lives nearby and stops by often. I expect that one of these times she'll intentionally go out back, knowing I'm naked. She'll try to make fun of me, and I'll stop getting dressed when she's around. So there.
We have had a few guests who when told that we normally would be nude in the pool or tub, have asked if they could join us that way. Likewise, once that's over with, them being nude and us being nude is OK thereafter.
Haulover Update
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| One of the entrances into the CO section of Haulover Beach |
I had to take my wife down to the Miami International Airport yesterday and on the way back I stopped in to see what's become of Haulover Beach. It's been many years since I've been down there. You have to understand that South Florida is an entirely different planet than Central Florida where I live is. I intentionally don't go down that far south very often. Too many people, too much traffic, too much crime. The last time I returned back through Miami's airport late at night, I walked into a heavily armed drug buy at a convenience store trying to get a receipt for a gas purchase. Let's just say they were not happy to see me :(
Haulover has matured very nicely. I suspect that the CO section is even larger than it used to be. Excellent signage, including reminders as one nears the dunes along the line that that this is a public beach and that any sexual activity will be dealt with harshly. Thanks nasty guys for making that even necessary to have to say.
The gaudy temporary orange snow fence of long ago is gone. Instead, there's just thin short unobtrusive, permanent, almost transparent fence that just reminds you where the very large CO section begins and ends (with signs in both directions on both sides of each cut in the fence). They have very large lifeguard stations ("towers") every few hundred feet. Interestingly the ones in the CO section are pink. The clothing required section towers are yellow.
In other words, clothing optional use of Haulover is there to stay! Note the welcome sign on the left picture above from the South Florida Free Beaches organization. You're not going to see anything like that or like Haulover anywhere else in the US. Good parking ($6) right off A1A and it's a short walk to local high rises and hotels. Just like any other highly used, well loved, urban beach.
I didn't stay long. It was a weekday, so at least the beach wasn't packed. I can only image what it's going to be like this Memorial Day weekend. It's a monster huge beach, but millions of people live within a short drive of it. But yesterday the surf was rough, it was mostly cloudy with your typical South Florida sprinkles on and off, and there was a strong sea breeze that left everything coated with salt. Next time I'll bring and put my clothes in a plastic bag and use the clothing optional showers before getting dressed and leaving the CO section.
If you have any reason to visit the Miami area, go up A1A a few miles up from South Beach and visit. You'll be very glad that you did. Thank you South Florida Free Beaches for all the work you've done there! It wouldn't have happened without them.
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