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  South Florida
Free Beaches
Florida Naturist Association

July 2011


     
In This Issue

National Nude Weekend

Shoes for Haiti drive

The Celebrated Nude
art festival

Parks Dept. to actively enforce
no glass rule at the beach

Skinny-dip in Wales

Local political update

A photo history of
National Nude Weekend


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Dear Naturist Friend,

National Nude Weekend - July 9th and 10th

Please join us at Haulover Beach to celebrate National Nude Weekend, the 30th anniversary of South Florida Free Beaches and The Naturist Society, and the 20th anniversary of Haulover Beach's clothing-optional section. 

Raffles, beach "door prizes", tattoo and body-painting contests are all part of the fun. An updated listing of planned activities may be viewed at www.sffb.com/events.html.




Bare Your Soles shoe drive 

Bring your "lightly used" shoes for collection by Purforce to benefit Haitian relief on July 9th and 10th during National Nude Weekend.

Please email any questions on this drive to Norma Mitchell.


If you have no used shoes, please consider donating to Haitian relief at
Purforce.







B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Foundation presents
The Celebrated Nude
Friday thru Saturday, July 22-24

On Haulover's Naturist Beach:
art exhibition
art workshops  -  music
gourmet food trucks (along service road/walk path, 3 PM to sunset)


[rain dates:  July 29-31]

For updates on this event, go to
B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Events page



Dinner and a Movie

Ocean Palm Hotel
Sat. July 23 - 8:30 to 10:30 PM

featuring the new feature-length indie movie Act Naturally and dinner from gourmet food trucks.

$25 prepaid.

Buy Tickets Online

For your convenience, Haulover's North parking lot will be open till after the movie screening.







 
No glass at the beach PLEASE!


The fine for having glass containers at the beach is $110

We have been advised
that the Parks Department will actively ticket violators.  You may think you are exempt, and that you carefully handle your glass bottles, albeit in direct violation of the ordinance.  However, you may not have seen injuries occurred when beach visitors stepped on glass shards, with the resultant dripping blood and risk of infection.  Would you like to step on a jagged piece of glass as you're leaving the beach? 

Glass and bare feet do not mix!  Glass containers deposited in the waste baskets often fall out during mechanized collection and are later crushed into hazardous shards.  Please keep glass off the beach!
 




On June 20th, more than 400 participated in a charity skinny-dip at Rhossili Beach in Wales.

Read BBC News story online

View a video on You Tube


Local Political Update


Miami-Dade County held a Recall Election in April to recall the Mayor and one county commissioner. They were recalled by a 88% vote.

In May, Miami-Dade County held an election for a new mayor and two county commissioners.  South Florida Free Beaches interviewed several of the candidates, consulted with our Tallahassee lobbyist Ray Maury, and employed a local lobbyist for consultation on which candidates to support.

We  met with and supported two candidates for two different county commissioner seats. We made the maximum legal donation of $500 each to their campaigns. They both won.  One of them has been appointed to the Park Committee of the county commission.  Both new county commissioners support the concept of a designated naturist beach.

The mayor's race ended up in a run-off between two candidates. Both candidates support the designated beach. One candidate is believed to be more pro-active in supporting the causes brought to him as a mayor in a local city. SFFB/FNA is supporting that candidate. We have met with this candidate and have donated $500 to his campaign.

SFFB/FNA is getting more active at the county level due to the lack of progress in achieving improvements to Haulover Beach Park, as promised by the Miami-Dade County Park Department.

During the election for state offices held last November, SFFB/FNA made several substantial donations to candidates for the Florida Legislature as well as Governor and State Attorney.


Richard Mason,
President SFFB/FNA
Chair, Gov't Affairs Committee

Comments may be directed to:  info@sffb.com



National Nude Weekend
- a History

The concept of a national nude beach day originated in the 1970s with Naturist Society founder Lee Baxandahl and others, who were working to preserve traditional nude-use areas in the Northeast and in California.



Truro Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1976



Beachfront USA, California, 1976

Among those working to preserve nude use at Truro Beach on Cape Cod was Tom Chittenden, later to move to South Florida and found South Florida Free Beaches.


Tom Chittenden (left) with Lee Baxandahl at Virginia Key, 1982

The 80s were not a good decade for naturists, as we lost a lot of traditional nude-use areas in Florida, such as Honeymoon Island in the Tampa Bay area, and Virginia Key in South Florida.


Honeymoon Island, near Tampa, c. 1982.


 Virginia Key, 1982


Tom Chittenden, Virginia Key, 1983

Subsequently, the nude beach day expanded to National Nude Weekend and Nude Recreation Month (July), as the concept was adopted by naturist organizations such as the American Sunbathing Association (ASA), now known as the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR)


 Lee Baxandahl and family, mid '80s, publicity photo
 for National Nude Weekend



The foundation of the naturist beach at Haulover was preceded by public relations efforts by SFFB, and by meetings with Dade County officials.


Surfside, 1988

SFFB founded the naturist section of Haulover Beach on July 14, 1991.


 Haulover Beach, 1991    

    Haulover Beach, 1992

SFFB lobbied for lifeguards and parking at Haulover's clothing-optional area, and finally won approval to install permanent signs marking the naturist area in 1993.


 Haulover Beach, December 1993
 foreground:  Richard Mason
 background:  Shirley Mason, Clyde Lott, [unknown], Bruce Frendahl
           

2011 finds Haulover's naturist beach extremely popular, yet still subject to the whims of legislators and administrators.  There is still no public acknowledgement of the existence of Haulover's naturist beach on the website of the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation Department.


 World Record Skinny-dip at Haulover Beach, 2009

More historic photos documenting South Florida Free Beaches' 30 years are available at www.sffb.com/photos.html



Support Free Beaches

To ensure many more nude beach days, please consider joining South Florida Free Beaches and The Naturist Society.  We are currently offering premiums for new members joining SFFB and The Naturist Society.  For details, please go to:

www.sffb.com/sponsors






 
 
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