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Monthly Archives: August 2015

19th Annual Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run 2015

30 Sunday Aug 2015

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Thank you for participating for our 19th Annual Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run!

It was quite poor weather and tide condition in the morning… but it recovered by the time we start the run.

Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run 2015 registration

Look! How quiet it was… at the beginning…!

Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run 2015 volunteers

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Volunteers helped us to set up everything. You still can see how high the tide was.

Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run 2015 corse set up

Setting up the course.

Bare Buns Run 2015 start

Due to the tide condition, Starting time was delayed to 12:14.

Wreck Beach Bare Buns run 2

By this time, the cloudy sky was all cleared up and was the perfect tempurature for the event.

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This guy came all the way from Australia for this event!

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1, 2 finish… He is the winner from Seattle!

Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run 2015-winner

Bradley from Seattle was the winner… well… look at the first photo… he was already the top.

Thank you Watermelon… you are so entertaining!

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Runners with Triangle medal… this means they ran all the 3 runs across the continent.

Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run record

Total 62 runners completed the race!

Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run 2015 group shot!

Group shot of Bare Buns Run 2015!

Due to the change of management, we had do downsize a little bit, but still lots of people helped us and it made it quite successful.

I say thank you for all the runners and all the volunteers and Judy, who managed the run!

PS: Sorry to delay the post. We had something more important to talk about on this blog and those had higher priority.

Bare Buns Run 2015 T-shirts are still on sale! Please call Judy @ 604 308 6336

Protest Jet Fuel in the Fraser River!

29 Saturday Aug 2015

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Today 2- 5PM
Location: Holiday Inn Express & Suites Riverport Richmond BC Airport

10688 No 6 Rd, 10688 Number 6 Rd, Richmond, BC V6W 1B1, Canada

We don’t want JET FULE on Fraser River! With their poor technology, it will leak and they will do NOTHING!

It is the perfect weather to say NO to Port Metro Vancouver!

Come & Join us!

Send OBJECTION to Port Metro Vancouver!

26 Wednesday Aug 2015

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Airport, Fraser River, Port metro Vancouver, Transport Jet fuel, Vancouver

Press-Release--August-25,-2015

Please say NO to Port Metro Vancouver about the date they set for the public hearing.

  • Date: August 29 (Sat.)  Time : 2:00PM

Who do you think is going to attend this?

It is the end of the season and people are away for holiday.

They did this on purposely to get few people to show up on public hearing!

We all need to say NO! to Port Metro Vancouver and make them postpone till at least after labour day!

Contact to : Mr. Andrew Taylor

Phone: 604 665 9627

Email: andrew.taylor@portmetrovancouver.com

Fewer nudists, more voyeurs as times change at Wreck Beach

20 Thursday Aug 2015

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Environment, Naturism, vancouver bc, Wreck Beach


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Legendary Wreck Beach held plenty of allure to a 19-year-old Mary Jean Dunsdon, new to Vancouver from Kamloops.

Over the next two decades, Dunsdon became Watermelon, a fixture on Canada’s most famous clothing-optional beach hawking watermelons and other edibles.

But the beach she loves so much for its natural beauty and sense of community is changing, she said, and naturists like her are dwindling.

“We’re an endangered species,” said Watermelon from her licorice store on Commercial Drive. From a 50-50 split in the early 1990s, the number of “textiles,” (Wreck Beach lingo for clothed people) has increased to about 70 per cent in recent years. “We’ve become the minority,” she said.

In the 1970s, beachgoers would get to the bottom of 400-odd wooden stairs on Trail 6 and immediately shed their clothes, said Watermelon. Not many do anymore.

Judy Williams of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society pegs the ratio at about 60-40 in favour for clothed beachgoers. But since a massive beach party organized on Facebook drew about 14,000 partygoers to the beach on July 1, the presence of “textiles” is even more prominent.

Why someone would want to come to a nude beach and not strip baffles Williams. She stressed the beach is a public space and open to everyone but “there’s a code of etiquette down here.”

It’s not the clothes that rile her; it’s the gawking, cameras, and body judgment that sometimes accompany those who are clad.

Williams has heard comments first hand. She and a friend were called “Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus” by a group of snickering clothed young men, while another group ranked her a zero on the Bo Derek scale, she recalled.

“It’s appalling, this attitude toward the naked human body,” said Williams. There is no place for body shaming at the beach, she said. “Here they see old people, they see infirm people, they see them as they are, and they learn not to become judgmental.”

Williams, a staunch defender of Wreck Beach since 1969, said gawkers, including tourists disgorged from large buses who trip down the stairs to point and shoot photos, and camera-phone use are an increasing problem. The society is mulling putting no-camera signs on the trail, said Williams.

Despite being outnumbered on Wreck Beach, naturists seem to be flourishing elsewhere in Metro Vancouver.

Don Pitcairn, president of Surrey’s United Naturists, said there has been a couple of times this summer he and his wife couldn’t find a spot for their blanket on Crescent Rock Beach, a quiet, isolated stretch of beach west of Ocean Park in South Surrey.

Before the beach gained attention as a naturist’s haven in 2007, there was only a handful of nude sunbathers regularly scattered in the area.

It attracts naturists from across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley who go there instead of making the long drive to Wreck before paying for parking then trudging down the 400-plus steps ­— which some older folks might be loath to do, Pitcairn said. Many naturists also head to the east end of Barnston Island on the Fraser River, he added.

Port Metro Vancouver & Vancouver Airport Fuel Facilities Corp. Open House

20 Thursday Aug 2015

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Date/ Time: August 29(Sat.) 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Location : Holiday Inn Express & Suites Riverport Richmond BC Airport

Port Metro Vancouver Open House to permit VAFFC to build the 80 million liter tank farm on banks of the Fraser River. Come and give them a ear full!! Please come and share this information…

Dear Supporters of Stopping Jet Fuel being transported into the estuary, we are asking you to request that the public open house which is a travesty because it is being held on Saturday, August 29th( when most people are out of town), be held after Labour Day, later in September and that the period of consultation which is supposed to end on September 8, should be extended. This is a deliberate attempt to bypass public input by setting the date at a time when many folks are on holiday or not checking
e-mail.

Please call Port Metro Vancouver and or Richmond City Council and ask that the public open house and deadline for public input, be extended since the current schedule only allows PMV to give lip service to true public input !

Judy Emily Williams

Please protest to postpone the date at least after Labour day (Sept. 7)!

Contact to : Mr. Andrew Taylor

phone: 604 665 9627
Email: andrew.taylor@portmetrovancouver.com

49.282729 -123.120738

Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run 2015 Tomorrow!!

15 Saturday Aug 2015

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Wreck-Beach-Bare-Buns-Run2015It is the 19th annual Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run tomorrow!

5km run on our fabulous Wreck Beach, the best clothing-optional beach in North America.

  • Registration start @ 9:00AM Please finish before 11;30AM…
  • Race starts about 12:00PM
  • It is clothing-optional… NOT nude only.
  • There are several different classes. You can choose class whatever is good for you. There are classes for kids as well!
  • $25/ person, $20 for 19& under or seniors. This fee is including Special T-shirt as well!

This is a part of fundraising to protect our valuable environment against development!

We are also needing volunteers tomorrow to set up course & kiosks on the beach!
Starting @ 7:30AM

For more info, please call Judy Williams @ 604 308 6336

Bare Buns Run 2015 Starting time has been changed!

12 Wednesday Aug 2015

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Due to the tide and weather condition, we are going to change the starting time of
Bare Buns Run 2015.

Registration: 9:00 to 11:00AM
Race starts:12:00PM ish…

Volunteers starts 7:30 which is the same time as we announced before.

Sorry for the confusion and see you guys soon on the beach!

Volunteers needed for Bare Buns Run (Aug. 16)

08 Saturday Aug 2015

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We need Volunteers for Bare Buns Run 2015 in August 16(Sun.)

  • Aug. 13(Thu.)   Mock Run for Media 9:45AM  Need Bare Runners.
    This is a demonstration of Bare Buns Run for Media!
    Location: Call Judy @ 604 308 6336
  • Aug. 14(Fri.)     Loading truck @ Bradner, BC   9:00AM
    Please call Judy @ 604 308 6336  before you have a long trip!
  • Aug. 15(Sat.)   8:30AM Offload the track  @ Top of Trail 6 and take things down the hill.
  • Aug. 16(Sun.)   7:30AM Set up tents, course or etc…

For more information, please call Judy @ 604 308 6336 or email :jewilliams1943@gmail.com

We need as many people as possible!

Bare Runners needed for Mock Run!

08 Saturday Aug 2015

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August 13(Thu.) 9:45AM –

We are doing Mock Run of Bare Buns Run for Media.

It is a demonstration of Bare Buns Run coming on August 16(Sun.).

Location: TBA  Please call Judy Williams @ 604 308 6336

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