November 2018

• Editor's Message — Raffle for
two nude cruises ends Nov. 30
• Beach Ambassador training
• Florida free beach roundup
• Miami-Dade Parks seeking
volunteers
• Ocean City, MD top-free lawsuit
hearing postponed to December
• SFFB November Board meeting
• Black Naturists Associaton profiled
in Essence magazine
• 2019 Mid-Winter Naturist Festival

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Join South Florida Free Beaches

Beach Education Advocates for
Culture, Health, Environment
& Safety (B.E.A.C.H.E.S.)

501(c)(3) nonprofit educational and charitable adjunct to SFFB

Find a nude beach group to join!

Grand Lido™ Negril
Au Naturel All-Suite Resort
Negril, Jamaica
An upscale and elegant naturist resort
Represented by Fox Travel American Express

daddy O hotel miami
Bay Harbor Islands, FL
Textile, but close to Haulover Beach
Mention SFFB for 10% discount.

Lake Como Family Nudist Resort
Lutz, FL
The place to be ... naturally!

Sunsport Gardens
Family Naturist Resort
Loxahatchee Groves, FL
Clothes-free recreation in a
natural, tropical paradise!

The Naturist Society Foundation
Body acceptance is the idea.
Nude recreation is the way.

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Learn all about Haulover Beach! Click on above image to download this informative, 20-page booklet.

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Bringing Together the Largest Nudist Community in the World
nusasun.com
Pick up a free copy at a newspaper dispenser box on Haulover Beach.

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Gay Naturists International, Inc.
Life is Great; Live it Nude! ©

Find a men's naturist club or naked yoga group to join!

Read GNI BuffBuzz, GNI's official blog.

Register to attend GNI's first Naked Beach Australia retreat for men, February 21-28, 2019.

Register to attend GNI's annual nude Gathering for men, August 16-25, 2019 (shorter options available).

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Nudist Florida, an online magazine by AANR-Florida (Florida region of American Association for Nude Recreation), helps you find places to enjoy nude recreation.

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Looking for additional naturist places in Florida?

Click on above image to search for naturist clubs, resorts, yoga classes, and other businesses statewide. See alphabetical and geographical listings and an interactive map. Also includes a list of beaches.

by Seth Paronick

Beach Ambassador training, November 17 and December 1, 2018

Do you spend a lot of time on Miami's nude beach? If so, you have a chance to give back by volunteering as a Beach Ambassador (BA) to help maintain naturist standards on Haulover Beach and keep it safely nude for all to enjoy. Sign up for and attend a training to become part of a wonderful corps of volunteers.

BAs serve as beach monitors and greeters, a combination of block watch, welcome wagon, and concierge. For their service, BAs at Haulover Beach get a cool hat, ID badge, and free parking on their duty days. Seasonal residents are welcome to participate. The next trainings, just for those that have never been through BA training, are scheduled for Haulover Beach on Saturday afternoon, November 17 and December 1, 2018. If you have any questions or wish to sign up for training, contact Ken by e-mail or at (594) 599-8420.

Florida free beach roundup

Treasure Coast Naturists (TCN) is revamping its website to provide online ordering of branded gear. Click or tap on the preceding link to check for updates and additions. The club continues to grow its membership, for which dues are $20 per year per household. Download an application form from the club's membership page or, if you have a PayPal account, submit the dues via paypal.me/tcnaturists and enter "MEMBERSHIP" where prompted to add a note. Feel free to add something extra (and make a notation) to help pay for the portable toilets in the parking lot, which TCN provides and maintains (not St. Lucie County).

TCN is actively recruiting Beach Ambassadors for Blind Creek Beach. See the club's Beach Ambassador Program page for details. For additional information or to volunteer, send e-mail or call (772) 800-5841. Nelson, TCN President, has extended the schedule for his naked yoga classes on Blind Creek Beach through late February 2019. They take place on Saturdays at 9 a.m., weather permitting. Donations are accepted, and a portion of them are turned over to Treasure Coast Naturists.

Sign petitions for clothing-optional beaches in Florida: • Tampa Bay Area • Palm Beach County

Palm Beach Naturists (PBN) continues working on obtaining at least one clothing-optional beach in Palm Beach County. PBN's next Board meeting is on Monday, November 12, 2018 at 7 p.m. at Panera Bread in Sunshine Square in Boynton Beach, FL. Much of the meeting will be about developing a Beach Ambassador program to have in place for an eventual clothing-optional beach. Potential volunteers are encouraged to attend. Buy your own dinner and bring it to the tables where the Board is meeting.

Red tide update: We reported in the last issue on the spread of red tide (a toxic algae bloom) into waters on Florida's Atlantic Coast. As of this writing, it has cleared on the East Coast, with levels in water samples testing mostly as not present / background, with just a few locations showing very low levels of Karenia brevis, the organism that causes red tide.

Unfortunately, Florida's Central West Coast (Gulf of Mexico) is still showing mostly medium and, in several locations, high levels between St. Petersburg and Sanibel Island. Even at medium levels, it can cause eye and skin irritation in humans. You can check for the latest test results on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's interactive red tide map.

Miami-Dade Parks seeking volunteers

The Park Conservation Corps is a signature volunteer group composed of individuals passionate about serving their community and playing an active role in enhancing Miami-Dade County's park system with their expertise. Representing a variety of professions across business, government, education, and the nonprofit sector, they come together with the shared goal to champion for parks, open spaces, and the conservation of natural areas in Miami-Dade County through direct, civic engagement. Applications are accepted through November 29, 2018. Find out more and apply at iaminvolved.org.

Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department has also scheduled a series of Haulover Community Action Days. Occurring on the first Saturday morning of every month through March 2019, these are opportunities for volunteers to help beautify Haulover Park in projects ranging from mulching trees to raking micro-plastics, picking up trash, painting, and more. If you enjoy Haulover, this is a great way to give back to it. Volunteers receive free parking for the day. Advance registration is required.

SFFB Board meeting on Haulover Beach, Nov. 10

The Board of Directors of South Florida Free Beaches usually meets on the second Saturday of every month at 2:00 p.m. under the North Chickee (thatch-roofed shade structure) near lifeguard tower 15 on Haulover Beach unless another date and time or location is announced. See below for the near-term schedule. Any planned exception to the second Saturday pattern is noted with an asterisk.

The meetings are open to SFFB sponsors / members, supporters, and invited guests. Prior to setting out, check the upper left-hand corner of SFFB's home page at sffb.com (under Today's Beach Reports) for any change in date, time, or location due to unavailability of Board members or in case of bad weather, when the meeting may take place indoors.

Don't miss an SFFB Board meeting — add the schedule to your calendar now!

Black Naturists Association profiled in Essence

Black Naturists Association (BNA) is a naturist travel club affiliated with the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR). BNA had its annual, organized visit to Miami in August, and SFFB and B.E.A.C.H.E.S. welcomed its group to Haulover Beach. BNA was founded in 2016 and hosts quarterly trips to naturist destinations. To help spread its message of body positivity, the club is profiled in an interview in the travel section of the current issue of Essence, a monthly magazine directed at younger African-American women.

Six days of fun, growth, and community in the nude

31st Annual Mid-Winter Naturist Festival
Thursday – Tuesday, February 14-19, 2019
Sunsport Gardens Family Naturist Resort
14125 North Rd, Loxahatchee Groves, FL
(14 miles west of West Palm Beach)

Join other naturist women and men and their families from Florida and the rest of North America for the continent's first regional naturist gathering in 2019. Come for any or all of the days — it's up to you!

This nude gathering is expected to feature nearly 250 scheduled activities, including a broad array of seminars, workshops, sports, music and dance (with nightly drum circle around a huge bonfire), and social activities. Although it's subject to revision, see the Festival schedule for an idea of what to expect. (Place your cursor over the document to open page controls.) There are also a couple of off-site events, which are excursions to Haulover Beach in Miami and Blind Creek Beach in Fort Pierce, FL.

Click or tap above for a video tour (13:41) of Sunsport Gardens Family Naturist Resort.

The Mid-Winter Naturist Festival is one of a series of Naturist Society-sanctioned nude events each year. Diversity is valued, and all are welcome. Pre-registration is encouraged for planning purposes, but not required. (It makes check-in quick and easy.) Proceeds of the Festival benefit The Naturist Society, South Florida Free Beaches, and Treasure Coast Naturists. (See related article above.) Get pricing and/or register.

Be sure to visit the SFFB / B.E.A.C.H.E.S. booth in the vendor area. Volunteers are needed to help staff the booth each day of the Festival. If you can spare some time to cover one or more shifts, please contact SFFB.

Meanwhile, try Sunsport Gardens' naked drum circle, first Friday of every month from 9 p.m. to midnight. Entry is from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. with a ground fee of $5; visitors must depart by 2 a.m. Includes access to amenities such as the café, showers, pool, spa, sauna, volleyball and tennis courts, nature trail, etc. You must present your government-issued photo ID for admission. Get directions.