NAC Discovery Beach Project

Category: C/O Beaches

GPS GeoCoords: 47.662555, -122.432542

The Body Freedom Collaborative and Naturist action Committee are co-hosting the Saturday, April 22 beach cleanup at Discovery Park! This is the second day of four scheduled throughout 2006 for the NAC Discovery Beach Project. The SLUGS naturist club co-hosted the March 18 event with NAC, but now BFC is taking its turn at bat.

The NAC Discovery Beach Project is a collaborative effort among many skinny-dippers in the Puget Sound area who want to move forward toward gaining sanctioned clothing-optional use of a beach in our region. Developing good relations with various agencies and site authorities is necessary step in this process.

These beach cleanups not only help skinny-dippers to introduce themselves to city officials, but it gives us the opportunity to practice healthy ecological citizenship. And beach cleanups are fun!

We've already got some folks signed up to take part in the upcoming April 22 NAC Discovery Beach Project, but we can use more. I counted 21 people at the drizzly March 18 work day, so we should be able to get the 10 to 15 workers that Seattle Parks is requesting of us for April 22.

You can just show up at the last minute, but it would be of great service to me if you'd let me know ahead of time that you, your friends, and family can make it. You can contact me at storey98@aol.com.

This will again be a clothed beach cleanup lasting from 10:00 to 1:00. We'll meet at Discovery Park's East Parking Lot next to the Visitor Center at 9:45. The City will shuttle us down to the beach and bring us back to the parking lot by 1:00. The Naturist Society (see www.naturistsociety.com) has again provided some hats and T-shirts to give away as raffle prizes, and the Naturist Action Committee will once again provide a pizza lunch immediately after the cleanup. On October 21, 2006--the fourth and final of the scheduled cleanups--we'll raffle off one free annual TNS membership to be won by one of those who participated in each of the four work days.

I do not know for sure what we'll be doing April 22--I've got a request for more information in right now--but as of last month I was under the impression that some folks would be pulling some blackberry vines from North Beach, while those who wished to do something else could do a more standard cleanup picking up normal trash at the beach. There is something for EVERYONE to do, whether you are young or old, fit or not-so-fit. Moreover, EVERYONE can help make a good impression on Seattle's Parks & Rec. So far, they're impressed. I hope we can build on that.

Thank ahead of time to BFC for co-hosting this day with NAC. That said, each of these four scheduled days (March 18, April 22, September 23, and October 21) are open to all. Working together on a simple, fun, cost-free activity like this is one way we can prove to ourselves that we CAN and WILL band together to show our community the quality of people public lands skinny-dippers can be.

I'll be sending out more information as I get it. If anyone needs directions to Discovery Park or the East Parking Lot, you can find them at
Seattle Parks link, or email me and I'll shoot them to you. Also, please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about any aspect of the NAC Discovery Beach Project. It's a collaborative effort so far, and I can safely speak for NAC when I say thanks to all who did so much "nit-picking" work cleaning up those minute specks of Styrofoam on March 18.

Don't forget to let me know that you can join us Saturday, April 22!

Nude beaches forever!

Mark Storey
Naturist Action Committee