An article in yesterday’s Courier Mail about the “no-jiggling” rule in force on Cairns (QLD) topless beaches spurred me to dig up the photo below.
There is a beach at Swanbourne which would have to be one of the most interesting beaches in my neck of the woods. Some people stumble upon it accidentally (it is adjacent to a nice dog beach, for instance), whilst some go there on purpose for the niche sporting events (PDF).
As some here would also know, Swanbourne is also home to Campbell Barracks and Australia’s SAS Regiment.
Which leads to this question: Can anyone else here lay claim to a Nude Beach in their area where patrons are warned via red flag when live-firing exercises are going on just the other side of the dunes?
Swanbourne Beach, Western Australia
UPDATE: The singularly perspicacious Boy On A Bike contributes his own thoughts and memories of Swanbourne Beach and the SASR. Read.
July 6, 2008, 4:05 am at 4:05 am
“Can anyone else here lay claim to a Nude Beach in their area where patrons are warned via red flag when live-firing exercises are going on just the other side of the dunes?”
I can, my local is city beach, I guess that counts as the same area.
I always though it was nice of the chicken stranglers to keep the pesky boaties away from the nudists by shooting at them.
July 6, 2008, 4:12 am at 4:12 am
#1 I had an off-lead dog run up into the dunes just North of the South City Beach dog beach… We don’t go there no more :-0
*And yes, I should have qualified that to “anyone else outside the Perth coastal strip“…
July 6, 2008, 4:43 am at 4:43 am
Lucky bastards… warm weather and a nude beach?!
July 6, 2008, 5:16 am at 5:16 am
#3 The other day on another blog I frequent, I was asked what I use the little toy telescope I got for Christmas for… (insert cool-hmmm emoticon here) LOL
July 6, 2008, 5:27 am at 5:27 am
Telescopes are way cool. I should drag mine out again and use it.
Sadly, Melbourne is often cloudy so there’s nothing to see.
July 6, 2008, 3:55 pm at 3:55 pm
We once visited the nude beach in St. Martins, out of curiosity (and hoping for some titillation, I won’t lie). The fact is, we saw a bunch of people who were the leatheriest, ugliest, wrinkliest people we had ever seen. But hey, they were skinny (except for the men who all had pouches hanging over their pride). Nude beaches are way overrated.
July 7, 2008, 4:57 am at 4:57 am
Erm, whats the deal with that sick looking potato picture in my post?
July 7, 2008, 10:00 am at 10:00 am
“Nude beaches are way overrated.”
I can assure you, the topless beaches in Sweden are definitely not overrated. Only open a couple of months out of the year, though.
Nothing quite like gaggles of blonde, topless girls in their late teens and early twenties running, skipping… and jiggling down a beach. I shudder at the mere memory of it. Thanks.
July 7, 2008, 10:03 am at 10:03 am
“I shudder at the udder mammary of it.”
Fixed. Sorry.