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OCTOBER NEWSLETTER
Trick-or-Treating on Tuesday, October 31st
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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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Please like and subscribe.
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We will be posting videos showcasing all the interesting sights and experiences of visiting Sunsport. And of the philosophy and history of Naturism.
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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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Sunsport is a wonderful place to relax, swim, and explore nature.
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Community Happenings
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Events in OCTOBER
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Sunsport's children will be Trick-or-Treating on Tuesday, October 31st, Halloween evening. Meet on the restaurant deck at 6:00 pm in costume with a collection bag. For Halloween treats, you may opt for small toys as treats rather than unhealthy candy. There will be a scary hayride around Sunsport on Sunday evening, October 29th, leaving from the laundry room area at 8 pm.
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Occupy Love Miami will host free Authentic Relating games on Friday, October 6th in the pavilion from 6PM - 7PM before the Drum Circle. ❤️
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Sunsport will have a Drum Circle Friday, October 6th. Water Aerobics takes place Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10 am. There is also daily afternoon petanque.
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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 October 6th 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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2024 Events at Sunsport
Mid-Winter Naturist Festival - February 15-20
Family Youth Gathering - July 6-14 2024
Young Adult Weekends - January 12-14, May 10-12, September 13-15
Community Drum Circles - The first Friday of each month.
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Sunsport's Snack Bar
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will be open daily except Wednesdays beginning October 1st. Lunch (Brunch) will be served 10 am -1 pm. Dinner will be served 5:30 pm-7:30 pm.
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As always, there will be healthful options.
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Inflation
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Sunsport has been hit hard by the inflation this year. There has been a dramatic increase in the cost of maintenance supplies, utilities, insurance, almost everything. Also, Florida law requires that all employees be paid at least $15 per hour by 2026. The Sunsport Board has decided to raise employee wages by $1 per hour each year until the $15 per hour is reached. Sunsport's wonderful and capable staff certainly deserves the raises.
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In order to pay for increased expenses, rental accommodation rates, membership fees, site rental rates, and storage fees will be increased by 5% commencing November 1st, 2023.
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Daily ground fees will be raised $5 to $30 for affiliated people (Those include people with current AANR, TNSF, FCN, FQN, INF, or Bare Oaks memberships.),
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$35 for unaffiliated people, $15 for young adults aged 18-30 with current student IDs, and $15 for drum circle evenings between 5 pm and 10 pm.
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People under age 18 continue to be free.
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Please respect Sunsport's speed limit for all motorized vehicles: 5 MILES PER HOUR. Some people have been driving faster which is a danger to pedestrians, particularly children, and to pets.
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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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Midwinter Naturist Festival 2024
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This is the last call for workshops and activities for the 2024 Midwinter Naturist Festival, February 15-20. Please contact Morley quickly with your ideas (561-254-9878, 561-791-1361, or morleynaturist@hotmail.com). Sunsport members leading at least 2 workshops or activities will have their registration fee waived. Others will have a day's ground fee waived for each workshop or activity they lead. Please make your airline reservations soon while reasonably priced airline tickets are still available. Festival registration forms will soon be available on the website.
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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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Snack Bar Hours:
Thursdays- Tuesdays
Breakfast/Lunch - 10am-1pm
Dinner - 5:30pm-7:30pm
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Healthy food will be available daily in the office which is open 10 am - 6 pm
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Please no longer place items in recycling bins at the end of driveways.
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Place large items in the dumpster in the recycling area. Place all other items in the trash collection stations or the recycling area.
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Remember, the large blue containers are for metal, glass, juice boxes, and plastic, but not styrofoam, plastic bags, straws, or plastic utensils. The yellow containers are for clean paper and cardboard. Aluminum soda, seltzer, and beer cans may also be placed in the specially marked containers. All other items should be bagged and placed in the large grey containers or 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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What's that smell at the Snack Bar Garden?
It's a carrion flower (Stapelia gigantea) a cactus-like succulent in the milk weed family.
The flowers are eye-catching, but it's their fragrance that truly catches your attention. That's because they smell like rotting meat.
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ArtBox & Serenity Garden
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Serenity Garden looking good.
All the rain is making the garden happy.
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Birds Life with Theresa
❤️🦜
Rhoda has a new Baby Brother!
❤️🐕
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Permaculture Sunsport News
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Edible Leaves at Sunsport
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Eating healthy greens in the tropics.....it's not about lettuce or spinach.
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Here are some edible leaves you can grow and eat raw at Sunsport.
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Moringa
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Edible Hibiscus - Abelmoschus esculentus
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Longevity Spinach - Gynura procumbens
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Okinawa Spinach - Gynura crepioides
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Brazilian Spinach - Samba Alternanthera Sissoo
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Talinum fruticosum & Talinum paniculatum (Pearls of Opar)
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Cuban Oregano - Coleus amboinicus
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Sweet Potato Leaves
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Quilquina & Papalo (Porophyllum ruderale)
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Yellow-Vein Eranthemum (Pseuderanthemum carruthersii 'Reticulatum')
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Katuck
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Mulberry Leaves (young)
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Collards
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Malabar Spinach - Basella alba
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Chaya - Cnidoscolus aconitifolius MUST COOK LEAVES
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Taro Leaves - Bun Long - Colocasia esculenta MUST COOK LEAVES
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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 once a month Tuesdays at 7:00 PM in the dining room. Contact Geoffrey Farmer, geoffrey@pclox.org, 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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The Top 10 Female Nudes in Art
At least over at the Guardian..
From the ravishing Venus of Urbino, past Ingres's sensual Odalisque, to the feminist riposte of the Guerrilla Girls, the female nude has inspired, enraptured and enraged
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Titian – Venus of Urbino (1536-38)
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No one has ever painted naked women as gorgeously as Titian did. His ravishing Venus is a lover laying her beauty bare, and the recipient of her optical largesse is anyone who happens to stand in front of this painting in the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy. Titian creates with mind-boggling skill the lavish presence of this nude: the rapture of her carnal glory.
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Juergen Teller – Vivienne Westwood (2013)
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Nudity never loses its power. The conventions of the nude can be enjoyed, and challenged, in limitless ways. Vivienne Westwood glories in poses culled from painting as she exults in all the possibilities of nakedness in art, while in her 70s.
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François Boucher – Louise O'Murphy (1752)
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The mistress of the king of France proudly displays her bottom in this picture from the age of the Marquis de Sade. In the 18th century of Enlightenment and spanking, Louise O'Murphy is not just nude – she is posed erotically. The artistic tradition of the nude, which goes back to ancient Greece, is sometimes wrongly imagined to be an ethereal pursuit of classic beauty. In fact, as Boucher and his model prove, it has always been and always will be about sex.
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Ingres – La Grande Odalisque (1814)
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This insouciantly provocative nude is gratuitously offered to the eye of some imagined sultan. Her perfume of orientalist fantasy casts the onlooker as a decadent connoisseur of sensual pleasure. Ingres makes his Odalisque almost surreally curvy, impossibly waxen-skinned, yet more real than any photograph. Utterly amoral, this painting is a depraved engine of delight.
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Guerrilla Girls – Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum? (1989)
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In this classic riposte to millennia of male voyeurism, the Guerrilla Girls give an ape head to Ingres's nothing-if-not-objectifying Odalisque. There are more female nudes in art than there are famous women artists. Is the nude just an instrument of oppression? Are Titian and Ingres misogynists? Today, it's hard to look at the nude without asking those questions.
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Pablo Picasso – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932)
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Picasso imagines his lover as a welcoming cloud of pinkness, a constellation of curves, in this ecstatic painting. The woman, here, is a part of nature, reduced to the status of objects in a still life, to be enjoyed by the male artist.
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This months Friday evening,
October 6th 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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