Nude Bushwalking in the Royal

[Aaron Burr]

There was an earlier discussion about nude bushwalking in the Royal and references to this tradition in bushwalking history. I recall references to someone taking Milo Dunphy on such a walk and to a correspondent who said he had walked nude from Bundeena to Big Marley on a weekday without giving offence.

Our experience is the delight of walking and running nude on the sandhills behind Big Marley, like 5th century
BC Greek Olympians. When we crossed the dunes to hit the surf there were a few parties ( unusual on a weekday ) but two of them followed our example and plunged in the water in puris naturalibis.

We have also - six of us, safety in numbers - walked totally nude, without backpacks or towels - from the carpark above north Garie, down to the beach to swim and climb back up the hill again. Terrific, and all the sun you needed for the rest of the day to guarantee your vitamin D intake and a perfectly even tan.

What about Wattamolla to Curracorang? And further on there's the waterfall spilling over a ledge before the stream goes over the cliff - great for a nude shower to refresh on the walk to Garie on a high summer day.

Aaron

Any other ideas? Experiences? Thinking of setting up a website called Gymnos ( or Naturist ) Aquatic Bushwalkers.

[SteveJ]

Gives new meaning to Slip Slop Slap

[L2obin]

Out of curiosity Aaron...ware you an elderly fellow? (Its usually the elderly that are quite free with dangling their loose bits)

[FatCanyoner]

(Its usually the elderly that are quite free with dangling their loose bits)

I'm not sure about Aaron, but I'm a regular nude bushwalker and I'm only 30. Is that elderly?

I did my latest nude walk last week... http://fatcanyoners.org/2012/10/31/bedford-creek-nude-walk/

Feel free to sign up for the next one!

[north-north-west]

Like the comment about 'gender imbalance'.

Some 30 years ago I paid my first visit to the Prom, and was rather bemused to find, amongst all the regulations listed on the back of my back-country camping permit, the line 'It is not permitted to be unclad, or inappropriately clad, within the National Park'. I'm still wondering exactly what constitutes 'inappropriate' clothing.

[Strider]

I'm still wondering exactly what constitutes 'inappropriate' clothing.

Images of Borat in his mankini spring to mind!

[colinm]

I'm still wondering exactly what constitutes 'inappropriate' clothing.

Images of Borat in his mankini spring to mind!

No clothing is not inappropriate clothing, it's a logical impossibility. I'd be prepared to argue that in a local court.

[Pepico]

wow .. I am intrigued. What do you do when you encounter other, clothed more .. conservative walkers? Being of German birth I have a natural inclination to dangle the dragon. Please let me know more. I like to join some time.

[Harryhopkins]

Responding to this interest in unclad bushwalking and swimming a group of friends and I have set-up The Gymnos Aquatic Bushwalkers and will organise activities and set up a website. In the meantime here is our Credo:

.The Gymnos Aquatic Bushwalkers respond to the strong evidence that full-bodied exposure to sun is healthy – boosting Vitamin D levels, countering toxicity, improving mental health

.The Bushwalkers know the liberation that flows from dropping the last of your clothes on grass, rocks or sand…and strolling stitchless with your companions to the water’s edge

.The Bushwalkers feel the joy of our whole bodies immersed, without clinging swimsuits…we believe in the sanctity of swimming bare-arsed, as God made us, of diving and plunging without a stitch, of setting out to the other side, to the further shore, in our birthday suits and nothing else

.The Bushwalkers stand in a tradition that reaches back to the bare-nude Olympics of ancient Greece, to the baths of Rome, to cow-hands and farm laborers seeking relief from summer sun in creeks, lakes and swimming holes, to Marines on the beaches of tropical islands and to old YMCAs with swim suits banned from their pools

.The Bushwalkers believe fiercely in lustrous all-over tans – without even a hint of timid “tan lines” – perfect, even tans, secret to the workaday world, tans - as a symbol of our freedom and a salute to golden-skinned natives from various continents who walked bare-bottomed across savannahs, dived for pearls buck-naked or fished from rocks without loin cloths

.The Bushwalkers reject the artificiality of official “nude beaches” with lolling sunbakers who have not earned the right – with a demanding hike or climb – to this liberating clothes-free state ; further, we believe all beaches should be available for free swimming, we adhere to that cheeky old adage, “not swimming nude is rude”

.The Bushwalkers believe in a membership that is flab-free, committed to athleticism and fitness and slim waists and that beer-bellied obesity is not suitable to be revealed to the sun’s rays and view of one’s companions

.The Bushwalkers assert the right to not only swim nude but, when the instinct takes us, to walk the trails in a state of nature, as bare as Adam in the Garden of Eden, especially to welcome the gentle sun of winter – subject only to the practical protection from sharp grass or entangling bush afforded by loin cloths or pouches

.The Bushwalkers recognize that while the above seems only to appeal to males we always live in the happy suspense that, without warning, at any time, a party of females – nurses on a jaunt, housewives on an excursion, Girl Guides on an outing – could take us by surprise…and this unsettling possibility, too, is part of the age-old tradition we honor.