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| Volume 15 |
Number 3, April
2003 |
Things Are Starting to Happen at the Lake
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Naturist Youth Opportunities In Florida
Things
Are Starting to Happen at the Lake
An unusually cold
winter delayed the warming of the lake, but the water is getting comfortable
now. The April picnic brought the best spread of home-cooked food in recent
memory. There were some mighty tasty salads.
For the convenience of our
physically challenged members, we have constructed a new toilet near the parking
lot entrance. (The old one is still available for campers.) Many thanks go to
Don for the carpentry and construction. Thanks also to Grant for help on the
labor.
Don also made a fine bench for the picnic area. And we are working
to get the Nature Trail cleared and re-labeled soon.
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From now on, our
newsletters will be posted on our club web site: They will also be posted on the
Florida Naturist Newsletter Bulletin Board: Florida Naturist Newsletter Florida
Naturist Newsletter http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FloridaNaturistNews
This is the place to go for news from any club in Florida. (Confidential
information, such as directions to a party at someone's house, will be placed in
the cover notification to you, and will not be posted anywhere.)
The
Bulletin Board came about at our club's request during the Mid-Winter Naturist
Festival. So far as we know, we are the only club that has for years posted
every incoming newsletter on our clubhouse bulletin board, so that all of our
members could read them. With many clubs going electronic, you can now read
their news in the comfort of your living room.
Credit for doing the
actual work of setting this up goes to the leader of the Wildfyre Society, a
large gay group. Florida clubs belonging to the American Association for Nude
Recreation, The Naturist Society, Gay Naturists International, or no national
organization have all been invited to join.
When you log onto the site,
you will be asked to confirm that you are 18 or older. Do NOT ask to join the
group; only editors do that. Just click on FILES. There is a folder for each
Florida club. Because the site is so new, most of those folders are still empty.
Our club will probably be the first to post a current newsletter on the bulletin
board. Editors from these and other organizations have indicated their intent to
post their next issues:
Florida Association for Nude Recreation
(FANR)
Central Florida Gay Nudists
Florida Keys Naturists
Tampa Area
Naturists
Tallahassee Naturally
Wildfyre Society (one back issue already
posted)
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Five-Club Picnic
Succeeds
The three-club picnic at Sunny Oaks Haven on
April 5 turned out to be a five-club event. In addition to a large contingent
from the Northeast Florida Naturists of Jacksonville, members of the Bare
Buddies of Atlanta happened to be camping over that weekend. And we met a
representative of another group we had not heard of before: the Nude Hiking Club
of Jacksonville. There were 31 people present--11 of them from our
club.
It was the biggest event since Sunny Oaks Haven opened more than a
year ago. There was probably twice as much food as we have ever seen at one of
our picnics--real home-cooked stuff that wasn't bought on the way
out.
Without a lake, a nearby population base, or an assistant, the owner
of Sunny Oaks Haven has had to struggle. But the place now boasts an
above-ground pool, shower building, separate restroom, hookups for RVs, and
courts for volleyball and petanque. The landscaping is young, but should provide
needed shade in future years.
In all likelihood, a multi-club event like
this will probably become a part of our annual calendar.
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Time to
Renew
If you haven't renewed your membership in the last
few weeks, check your pulse, because you have expired.
More and more of
our members are discovering the ease and economy of paying annual lake fees,
rather than messing with daily or monthly payments. Here is the fee
schedule:
Tallahassee Naturally--annual membership
$ 45
single/couple/family
$ 30 single student
Tallahassee Naturally--lake
rental fee (FREE for female members & children)
$135 one year (starting
at the beginning of any month)
$ 25 one month (starting at the beginning of
the month)
$ 10 one day (pay on arrival)
(Male students: $5 a day, or $15
a month)
Remember that renewing members are generally expected to join
one of the national organizations. Those fees are:
The Naturist Society
(Club membership required)
$ 50 single/couple/family
$ 40 student/senior
citizen
American Association for Nude Recreation (Club membership
required)
$ 54.50 couple
$ 31.00 single
$ 12.50 student
Bring
your money to the lake, or send a check to:
Tallahassee Naturally
POB
6866
Tallahassee, FL 32314
Cell Phones
and Cameras
There are now digital cameras that look like
cell phones. The Naturist Society has issued an alert that voyeurs are starting
to use such cameras on nude beaches. Some of those illicit pictures are showing
up on the Internet.
Most people come to our lake to get away from
workaday interruptions like telephones. But because the club has no central
telephone, we recognize the usefulness of mobile phones--especially in case of
an emergency. We do ask, however, that you place or receive calls away from
people. You would probably want to do that for your own privacy. Please do it
also to relieve any concerns of people around you.
Naturist Youth
Opportunities In Florida
Weekend activities for
children under 10
Cypress Cove: Lots of arts and crafts. Offered most
weekends in the summertime. They do more of the same for five days in a row
during their annual day camp.
Lake Como: On certain weekends, parents get
together to put on lots of physical activities. Emphasis is on family, more so
than on a separate kids' program.
Week-long camps for
teens
JFANR Camp: (age 11-15--moves from resort to resort with the
FANR Convention) This has become mostly a social event, with emphasis on
team-building and trips to amusement parks. JFANR provides tents, and staff does
the cooking.
Leadership Academy: (age 15-20--meets with JFANR camp)
Besides helping with the younger kids, this group participates in many
discussions about drug-free natural living.
Camp Tallasun: (age
11-17--Tallahassee Naturally) This 1996 camp could be offered again whenever
there are enough children. It emphasizes merit-badge-like individual
accomplishment and developing one's own philosophy of living naturally in
nature.
Events for college students
Annual College Greek
Athletic Meet: (Tallahassee Naturally) A day of authentic ancient pentathlon
attracting students from several surrounding colleges, and those from distant
states visiting Florida for spring break. Athletes and non-athletes compete in
separate classifications.
Full-Moon Skinny-Dips: (Tallahassee Naturally)
Monthly campfire and marshmallows during the warm months--attracting mostly
college students. Overnight camping is an option.
Nude U: (age
18-26--meets with JFANR camp) Besides helping with the younger kids, this group
meets to discuss forming nude campus organizations back home.
Awards
for students
Junior Man & Junior Woman of the Year (age 5-17):
Winners of the $25 FANR essay contest move on to the $100 AANR
competition.
AANR Junior Award for Nudist Studies (age 5-22): $300 for
the best nudist-related school project submitted for a grade.
American
Nudist Research Library scholarship: $1,000 to a high school senior or graduate
within the last two years. Requirements include 3 years in a nudist organization
and a brief essay.
FANR scholarships: $2,000 awarded to two college
students each year. Requirements include 18 months of AANR membership and an
essay. Graduate students are eligible, but scoring is weighted in favor of
younger students.
Naturist Education Foundation scholarship: $1,000 for a
publishable scholarly article (competitions twice a year). Must be a current TNS
member (possibly just joined) and a current college student. Graduate students
are eligible.
May:
Saturday, May
10--Beach trip. For details, time, directions, or car pooling, call Paul at
(850) 222-1886.
Friday, May 16--First Full-Moon Skinny-Dip of the year.
(A blast of cold weather canceled the April event.) This is largely a college
student event. Because of road closings, we are having to move our gathering
place across the street to the parking lot south of the FSU bookstore. We leave
at 7:00. If you are planning to drive out directly to the lake, be sure to let
Paul know. Otherwise, we might possibly look around the parking lot and decide
there are not enough people to make the trip worthwhile, and you could find
nobody at the lake to meet you.
Saturday, May 24 through Monday, May
26--Memorial weekend campout. Bring a tent and make yourself at
home.
Sunday, May 25--Picnic and Seminar. Bring a passing dish. We eat at
2:00; Paul is host. We forgot to call on Doug at the last picnic, so this time
he will tell us about his recent trip to a nudist resort in
Brazil.
Monday, May 26--The lake is open.
June:
5-13 Nude U, Lake Como
near Tampa
8 Board meeting
8-13 JFANR camp, Lake Como
13 Full-Moon
Skinny-Dip
13-15 FANR Convention, Lake Como
28 Pool party at Cal &
Jennifer's
29 Picnic
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Tallahassee Naturally is a
non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of naturist
recreation in north Florida and nearby areas. The club is an affiliate
member of both The Naturist Society and the American Association for Nude
Recreation. Bare & Free is the official quarterly
newsletter of Tallahassee Naturally. It is sent electronically, though a
hard copy may be requested by leaving a message at the club's web page :http://www.tallanaturally.org
Articles appearing in Bare & Free may be reprinted by other
naturist publications, provided that credit is given. Photos, however, may
only be reprinted with written permission. Club members are strongly encouraged to submit articles, news items, and photos for publication. Please address all submissions to: Tallahassee Naturally, P.O. Box 6866, Tallahassee, FL 32314, or contact the editor: Jamie M. Smith |