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~ Official Blog of Wreck Beach Preservation Society

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2016 Skinnydip day

28 Thursday Jul 2016

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Canada, Events, Naturism, Skinnydip Day, vancouver bc, Wreck Beach

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July 24(Sun.) was 7th Annual Wreck Beach Skinnydip day.

It was the first time to take the photo with Canadian Coast Guard Service Moytel.

It attracted many people… but at the same time, the earlier arrival did limited the number of the participants and ended up with 341 people.

341 ×$5 will be donated to W.B.P.S. by Mr. Roger Procter, CEO of Genex Capital.

All the money will be spent to protect Wreck Beach.

I’d like to say Thank you to all the participants, Roger, CCGS Moytal crews and Wreck Beach…

We are making posters and postcards from the photo. It will be ready for sell on the beach by this weekend.

Thank you again and see you soon on the beach!

 

 

Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run on Sunday!

15 Friday Jul 2016

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20th Annual Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run comes this Sunday!

  • July 17 (Sun.)
  • Race starts at 10:00AM, NOT 12:00PM!
  • Registration: Between 8 to 9:30AM

We still need volunteers tomorrow

  • July 16(Sat.)  10:00AM : Unload the Truck at the top of Trail 6 and carry them down to the beach.

For more detail, please call Judy @604 308 6336 or Email

NIFTY Swim Night Tomorrow… NOT 31st!

23 Friday Oct 2015

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NIFTY Swim Tomorrow!

Due to Halloween next Saturday, we are going to have NIFTY Swim Tomorrow!

October 24(Sat. )
Location: Templeton Pool

Time: 7:30 ~ 9:30PM

This is Clothing-optiional swim!!

$8/ person
$4/ person for Students and Low income people
Free for 18 and younger

 

Wreck Beach Swim Night is Back!!!

16 Friday Oct 2015

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Wreck Beach Swim Night Tomorrow @ 7:30PM

—– This is full-nude swim!! —–

Date: October 17 (Sat.)
Time: 7:30 – 9:30 PM
Location: Lord Byng Pool, 3990 West 14th Avenue, Vancouver

What you need:

  • Government Photo ID
  • Entrance fee (Cash Only)  $12 for non member, 10 for member, Free for 10 & under with supervisor.
  • Towel
  • 25 cents coin for locker.

$5 if it is your first time!! Come and bring your friends.

2015 Newsletters 91 – 95

12 Saturday Sep 2015

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91st-Wreck Beach Newsletter

2015 Wreck Beach Newsletter No. 91 – 95 are ready!

91st Newsletter 2015

92nd Newsletter 2015

93rd Newsletter 2015

94th Newsletter 2015

95th Newsletter 2015

Hard copies are available at the top of Trail 6 as well.

2012 or older >>

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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

Fewer nudists, more voyeurs as times change at Wreck Beach

20 Thursday Aug 2015

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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.

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!

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