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JUNE NEWSLETTER
Sunsport's 14th Annual Naturist Family Youth Gathering will be July 8-16
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Check out our website!
Get the latest on our commitment to Naturism, Permaculture, Health, Nutrition, Spirituality and Community.
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Our New Video is now LIVE!!
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We have beautiful Cabins and RVs to suit your desires.
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To see pictures and descriptions of all our rentals and a map of locations.....go here.
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Check out the slide show on our homepage of all the best photos of the Sunsport Experience by our talented photographers.
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The Nature Foot Trail and the Golf Cart Trail through Sunsport's jungle are becoming more beautiful daily. The Lotus Pond between the Labyrinth and the Meditation Field is now in full bloom. Have an adventure exploring the trails north of the circumference road. Enjoy Sunsport during the longest days of the year.
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Community Happenings
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Events in June
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The Permaculture Group has been very active with projects clearing the small pond of invasive salvinia and expanding the community garden. The group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays in the restaurant at 7 pm.
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Continuing activities include water aerobics Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10 am, petanque daily at 2 pm, and daily morning pickleball.
Sunsport will celebrate Tuesday, July 4th, with a special bar-b-que from 11 am to 4 pm from the Smoothy Bar and poolside music by Bobby Whetsel.
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There was record attendance at the Full Bloom Music and Arts Festival for Young Adults the second weekend in May at Sunsport. The weekend featured music poolside, yoga, personal growth workshops, fire spinning, and much more. The producing group coordinated by Karl Harris is Young Adult Naturists (YAN). Photos of the event are on Sunsport's website. The YAN weekends are held the second weekend of January, May, and September.
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The First Friday Community Drum Circle will be June 2nd.
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Karaoke - Various Pop Up times.
Daily Events - Ongoing activities include daily afternoon Pétanque at 2, Water Aerobics Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 10, Morning Pickleball
Monthly Drum Circle
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The June 2nd First Friday Community Drum Circle is ON!
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Note: the special drum circle ground fees will be in effect only until 10 pm when the office closes. After 10 pm entry, regular ground fees will apply.
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Please arrive before 10pm to enjoy the $10 price.
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2023-24 Events at Sunsport
Family Youth Gathering - July 8-16
Young Adult Weekends - May 12-14, September 8-10
Mid-Winter Naturist Festival - February 15-20 2024
Community Drum Circles - The first Friday of each month.
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Sunsport Gardens Notes
The front gate code has been given to unauthorized people. For everyone's comfort and security, Sunsport is a gated community. Never hand out the gate code. If you are expecting a visitor, please notify the office.
The most recent N magazine, the quarterly publication of the Naturist Society Foundation, often has articles with photos about Sunsport. The June Bulletin, AANR's monthly publication, has an article on the Family Youth Camp. All yearly Sunsport members are members of both TNSF and AANR.
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Artist-in-Residence Program
Calling all Artists, Dancers, Painters, Sculptors, Musicians, Writers etc
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Sunsport has created an Artist-in-Residence Program. Stay for a week or a month+.
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Free camping and day fees.
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Create art or relax and commune with nature.
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Sunsport's 14th Annual Naturist Family Youth Gathering will be July 8-16
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Spaces for campers are still available. Children aged 5-17 and their families will experience a fun week of growth and community emphasizing interpersonal relations skills, learning, and creativity in a natural environment.
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Campers have much flexibility in choosing their activities whether their interests are arts and crafts, movie making, sports, science, gardening, or drama. As usual we will have a fun-filled day playing in the sand and surf at a clothing-optional ocean beach, a camp variety show, crafts, nature exploration, canuding and kayaking, non-competitive sports, producing a claymation video, campfires, and lots of pool time, with individual attention for each camper. There will be special activities best done clothesfree such as a slip-n-slide, tie dye, water balloon throwing, and a 10 foot ice cream sundae with as much landing on bodies as in mouths. Workshops on being proud of who we are, body acceptance, communication skills, and conflict resolution will help establish an atmosphere of caring about each other's feelings and positive relationships.
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Parents participate as much or as little as they like. Most of the favorite counselors will be returning. A gallery of camp photos, articles, and claymation videos from past years are on Sunsport's website. Enrollment forms are also on Sunsport's website.
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If your child is attending, please email Morley at [email protected]. We need to know the names and ages of campers and any activities adult family members might like to lead. This information would be helpful in designing the schedule. AANR-Florida is offering a scholarship for a camper whose parents are AANR-Florida members. Please let us know if you are interested.
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Thanks to the American Association For Nude Recreation and the Naturist Society Foundation for making significant financial contributions to help support the camp. Donations from others would be much appreciated to help defray costs.
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Enjoy the long summer days and warm evenings at beautifully natural Sunsport Gardens.
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Sunsport Tee Shirts.......
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The office now has a variety of Sunsport Gardens T-shirts available.
The shirts have attractive designs by Christopher Vuk.
Purchase them at the office or online on our website (coming soon)
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the Naturally Nude Cafe.......whats cookin.....
Sunsport grown Vegetables!
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Smoothie bar hours:
Friday to Sunday only
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Healthy food will be available daily in the office which is open 10 am - 6 pm
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Buffalo fried cauliflower- $8
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2 eggs, almost any style - $4
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TRASH
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Please remember to place non-recyclable trash in bags tied at the top before placing it the bins. Bags should be light enough to lift easily. Large items should be taken to the main dumpster with large items placed outside the dumpster.
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Reminder: Please use the appropriate containers for throwing out items. Place materials such as clean paper and cardboard in the yellow bins; cans, plastics (except styrofoam, utensils,and bags), juice boxes, and glass and plastic bottles in the blue bins. Place large items such as platforms and furniture near, but not in, the dumpster. Place only bagged garbage and small items in the dumpster.
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To help Sunsport and the environment, *please deposit aluminum cans in a special bin with a round hole in the top in the main recycling area.
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- The yellow containers are for paper and flattened cardboard
- The blue containers are for aluminum cans*, glass, juice boxes, and plastics except styrofoam, bags, and utensils.
- Deposit other trash in the large grey or black trash bins with tops.
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Please secure all trash cans tightly since raccoons are skilled at opening containers and making large messes. Thanks.
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the Gardens of Sunsport
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Check out the beautiful shade garden of Kurt and Isabel with its diverse and exotic plants.
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ArtBox & Serenity Garden
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Our favorite Goddess photographer Francesca Bliss is back at the Serenity Garden working her magic with Goddess Natalie.
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Birds Life with Theresa
❤️🦜
Today its a Dog's Life with Rhoda
❤️🐕
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Permaculture Sunsport News
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Irrigation in the Food Forest
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We are switching over from city water to pond water to irrigate all the plants in the Food Forest. We repurposed our pressure tank from the front where the now defunct irrigation well was.
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Pond water has several advantages that city water lacks, it is aerated, so if the plants get saturated they don’t rot out due to lack of oxygen. There is also less mineral build up and chemicals.
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Did you know there is a good fungus called mycorrhizal fungus? This fungus helps transport nutrients to the roots of plants, nearly every single plant on earth lives symbiotically with this amazing fungus.
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And well the sad truth is, city water is built to be antibacterial and antifungal. This is good for us, but not good for plants! So not only is pond water good for watering gardens, its way better than city water!
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Please make a small donation to help us continue to develop the Meditation and Permaculture Projects.
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Check the website for exact day, at 7 pm in the restaurant.
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The Permaculture Sunsport group is meeting on the second and fourth Tuesdays at 7:00 PM in the dining room. Contact Geoffrey Farmer, [email protected], to receive notice of meetings and garden workdays.
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Hey What is Permaculture?
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Permaculture is a philosophy of design for creating a sustainable human culture. That is, it's a way of thinking about how we set up the support systems around us: shelter, food, water, energy, society and business. Well designed permaculture systems allow us to live as a beneficial part of the ecosystems around us.
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Join our FaceBook page for more details and meetings of the Sunsport Permaculture & Community Garden Group .
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Art & Naturism.......naturist spirited art
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Brent Learned, a renowned Cheyenne/Arapaho artist who envisions Native American Body of Art as the start of a Native renaissance.
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The majority of the work featured in Native American Body of Art “depicts classical, very tasteful poses,” says Learned. “One thing I find fascinating is you can go to any museum in the country and see every race and creed depicted nude except Native Americans. It makes you wonder, ‘Why is that?’”
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We Are Resilience by Serena Penaloza
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Learned has a theory. “A lot of people think it’s taboo. I personally think that [mentality] stems from assimilation,” Learned says. “Who was in control of the assimilation? Churches, boarding schools. Native people were basically taught not to be who they were.”
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Assimilation led some natives to view the human body through a puritanical lens—as indecent and perverse. Through stripping natives of their language, art and culture, forced assimilation managed to manufacture consent. “We’ve been censoring ourselves since assimilation,” Learned says. “If you tear down a society and tell them that something that was so natural for them is wrong, that’s one way to control them.”
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Contributing Navajo and Maricopa artist Serena Penaloza agrees: “Before the white people came, we were very open with our sensuality,” she says. “On my Maricopa side, the women would walk around topless. Then the white people came, religion came, and we were taught to be ashamed of our bodies.”
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Tree of Life by Serena Penaloza
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Green Eyed Shoshone by Oneka M. Jones
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Raven in Her Human Form Smoking by Aakatchaq Schaeffer
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This months Friday evening,
June 2nd monthly Community Drum Circle is ON!!!
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Please Support These Important Organizations
Fighting for Our Freedoms
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Vision: Creating a clothing-optional world where your body does not define who you are.Mission: Promoting a culture of body acceptance through clothing-optional recreation, education, and community outreach.Values: Naturism, Understanding, Diversity, Education
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The Naturist Action Committee is the political adjunct to The Naturist Society Foundation. NAC exists to advance and protect the rights and interests of naturists throughout North America, and supports the responsible recreational nude use of public lands.
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The Naturist Education Foundation is the nonprofit informational and educational adjunct to The Naturist Society Foundation and is dedicated to improving the awareness of naturism and body acceptance among both naturists and non-naturists, including business leaders, legislators, and the college community. NEF seeks to achieve an understanding and acceptance of naturists and their activities throughout North America.
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NAC and NEF are 501(c) nonprofit corporations.
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Our Mission: Simply put, we exist “To advocate nudity and nude recreation in appropriate settings while educating and informing society of their value and enjoyment.”
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The American Association for Nude Recreation is the largest, most long-established organization of its kind in North America. With roots dating to 1931, we have grown from our humble beginnings to an organization that has served 213,000 individuals throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and beyond. These members enjoy their own backyards and pools with family and friends, as well as over 180 nudist resorts and affiliates.
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The Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) is Canada’s national nudist organization. Along with the Fédération québécoise de naturisme (FQN), the FCN represents and promotes the naturist lifestyle as wholesome, healthy, and enjoyable.
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Our Mission Statement
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The Federation of Canadian Naturists is a member-supported, not for profit organization dedicated to fostering a greater understanding, acceptance and appreciation of naturism as a way of life throughout Canada.
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Incorporated in 1980, SFFB has long worked tirelessly for the advancement of naturism in general, and clothing-optional beaches in particular, across the entire state of Florida.SFFB’s Legal Defense Fund has financially assisted countless naturists over it’s tenure.
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B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, former Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department Programming Partner for Haulover Beach and an adjunct of South Florida Free Beaches (SFFB), founders of Haulover Beach’s naturist section in 1991.
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Rate Sheet
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Reservation and Deposit Policy 2023-2024 Winter Season
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