QUOTES 7/3/2018

“When I was about 16 years old, three friends and I decided to go swimming in the Ocala National Forest in the Oklawaha River. . . Since we had no swim suits with us, we all went swimming naked. . . We got the idea to make a rope swing from one of the trees.   walked about a quarter mile up the dirt road to the cabin where we were staying to get some rope.  We didn't bother to dress.  We saw one car and they saw us, but didn't stop or say anything.  We returned to the river and made the swing and spent hours swinging out over the river and dropping in.  It was so much fun we didn't notice when a man in a canoe came slowly drifting by.  I almost fell right into his canoe!  While under water, I remember thinking that I hoped he would not get on to us for being naked.  When I came up next to his canoe, he looked at all of us and said, laughing, ‘It's been years since I went skinny-dipping!  That looks like so much fun!’” – Charles, Florida, http://www.aanr.com/best-skinny-dip-experience&page=5

“2014 SF Nude Olympics” (Video) - https://vimeo.com/115139596

“Lying on quiet beaches you are usually fine.  Most people will accept that nude bathing and skinny dipping are appealing, even if they don’t want to do it.  As long as you are in a quiet spot, rather than a busy, crowded beach, people who might be offended will just steer around you.” - https://nakedhistorian.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/socks-off-rambling-and-nude-modelling-on-the-solent/

“There’s something very real about naked dinner.” - Arianne C.

“The end of March (2011), I enjoyed a road trip from El Paso to White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico.  White Sands sits at the base of desert mountains.  The sand is made from Gypsum, the stuff from which sheet rock is made.  Over the millennia gypsum crystals that were created in a lake at the southern end of this area had broken down to form a soft white sand, that was then blown into over 250 miles of vast, sandy-white dunes.  Very little vegetation grows in this sand.  And unlike beach sand, it doesn’t stick to the body at all.  There were few visitors, and the weather was warm – what are naturists to do but park, take off into the dunes, and get naked.  I got naked immediately after cresting the first sand dune twenty-five yards from the car, then dropped into a valley and followed it between the dunes where a little grass (dry this time of the year) and an occasional yucca cactus had survived.  After perhaps a quarter mile I reached the base of a steep, colossal dune.  Looking back at one point I noticed a couple standing on the crest of a distant dune.  They looked as small as ants, so there was no way they could tell I was enjoying a freehike - no concern.  It wouldn’t really have mattered to me anyway. I don’t like to shock others with our nudity, but I am an unashamed naturist and are not really embarrassed by being naked around textiles.  One sure sign of true, experienced naturists is that they proudly and openly share with friends, family, and people they meet that they prefer living nude as God intended.” - Kenfreehiker