A clothing-optional bike ride through the streets of Edmonton scheduled for Saturday [3 August 2019] is rankling some people, who argue that the event amounts to indecent exposure.
Those organizing and participating in World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) Edmonton, on the other hand, say that the event is a protest meant to promote both body positivity and the use of bicycles as a sustainable energy transportation choice.
For decades, visitors were free to bare it all while hiking and sunbathing at a spot along Coxing Kill in the Mohonk Preserve, just downstream from the Split Rock wading area.
Since the 1980s, The Preserve allowed the tradition to continue in this tiny nook, and even posted signs leading to the area warning visitors: “You may encounter nudity beyond this point.”
Blind Creek Beach is officially the county’s first clothing-optional beach.
In a 4-1 vote, the County Commission officially designated 36 acres of beach — within the 408-acre park — clothing optional.
The park is on both sides of south State Road A1A between Frederick Douglass Beach park and the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant.
It’s that time of year again when the mercury soars and a quick dip beckons. But who wants to wrestle with soggy swimmers? There’s nothing that will make you feel further from the office or worksite this holiday season than tossing aside your clothes – yes, all of them – and plunging into the waters…