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.
June Rental Special
Again this June, Sunsport is offering a special deal on accommodations: Stay one night, get a second consecutive night free. This is a great opportunity to have a weekend stay for the price of one night.
Community Happenings
Events in June
Continuing activities include water aerobics Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10 am, petanque daily at 2 pm, and daily morning pickleball.
Sunsport will celebrate Thursday, July 4th, with poolside music by Bobby Whetzel.
Daily Events - afternoon Pétanque at 2, Water Aerobics Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 10, Morning Pickleball at 9am
Monthly Drum Circle
The June 7th First Friday Community Drum Circle is ON!
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.
Mid-Winter Naturist Festival - February 13-18 2025
Community Drum Circles - The first Friday of each month.
Plant Based, Healing Weekend Retreat June 14-16
"Plant Based, Healing Weekend Retreat in a Tropical Paradise" June 14-16. "Connect with nature and enjoy a weekend with some of the most healing foods and practices on the planet." The cost is $150 plus $30 for non Sunsport members or anyone tent camping. Call 914-886-3148 or email samadhichris@gmail.com for information.
Naturist Family Youth Gathering
Sunsport's 14th Annual Naturist Family Youth Gathering will be July 6-14. 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. 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. 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. If your child is attending, please email Morley at morleynaturist@hotmail.com. 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.
Thanks to the American Association For Nude Recreation, the Naturist Education Foundation, 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.
Important Judicial Case
In April, a law was passed in Florida restricting nudity in locations where licensed massage therapy is performed. The good news is that massages in clubs chartered by the American Association For Nude Recreation (AANR) are exempt from the law. The law passed the Florida House and Senate unanimously.
The exemption for AANR clubs such as Sunsport was sheparded through with the assistance of lobbyist Ramon Maury who is employed by AANR, AAANR-Florida, and South Florida Free Beaches. The law shows that legislators understand the difference between wholesome nudity and illicit activity. For more details, see the June 2024 edition of the AANR Bulletin.
All Sunsport year round members are members of both AANR and the Naturist Society Foundation.
Snack Bar Hours
MEAL SERVICE: Beginning May 1, the Snack Bar will be open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 11 am to 1 pm and 5 pm - 7 pm for the summer. Snack Bar hours may differ for special events. Healthy food will be available daily in the office which is open 10 am - 6 pm. Be sure to pick up your food for dinner by 6 pm.
June Wrap Up
Enjoy the long summer days and warm evenings at beautifully natural Sunsport Gardens.
Artist-in-Residence Program
Calling all Artists, Dancers, Painters, Sculptors, Musicians, Writers etc
Sunsport has created an Artist-in-Residence Program. Stay for a week or a month+.
Healthy food will be available daily in the office which is open 10 am - 6 pm
Farm fresh eggs & home made Jams and Sauces are also available.
NEW HEALTHY OPTIONS MENU!
For those looking for low salt, vegan, KETO, paleo, gluten free, low sugar etc
we got you covered.
Don't see what you want? Just ask Tracy and she will use her culinary creativity to accommodate your desires.
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.
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.
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.
Please secure all trash cans tightly since raccoons are skilled at opening containers and making large messes. Thanks.
the Gardens of Sunsport
Some Wild Garden Beauty - Passion Flower.
ArtBox & Serenity Garden
Serenity Garden's Saba Banana is getting huge.
Birds Life with Theresa
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Morley and Theresa working hard on some new surprises in bird world.
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Permaculture Sunsport News
Lots of Bananas @ Sunsport
Bananas are loving the hot weather
Raja Puri Bananas getting some love at the MWNF
Chris heading off to do his Plant Based, Healing Weekend Retreat
Q. When to cut down the bunch?
A. When the first banana turns yellow
These are Praying Hands Bananas. Where the fingers are fused together making them look like praying hands.
Kevin and friends heading to the Young Naturist Festival with breakfast.
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.
Join our FaceBook page for more details and meetings of the Sunsport Permaculture & Community Garden Group .
Depictions of nudity are rampant throughout ancient Greek and Roman forms of art; so commonplace, in fact, that the “ideal form” as exemplified by the gods was a highly athletic, physically strong, nude male. This was a distinct Greco-Roman tradition as other ancient sculptures, like that of the Egyptians and Persians, were not crafted in this manner; “to the Greeks [nudity] was the mark of a hero”.
The choice to depict their greatest heroes and gods in the nude was not on a whim, but rather part of a deeply rooted philosophical and cultural ideology in which the human body was celebrated rather than shamed. Athletic competitions at religious festivals were done in the nude, and these demonstrated a love and idolization of the body in ways that were “unparalleled”
Roman, Imperial period, ca. 2nd century CE. A fabulous bronze figure of Apollo Kitharoidos or Citharoedus – a depiction of Apollo, the Greek and Roman god of archery, music, and prophecy, holding a kithara (Latin cithara) or lyre. Nude, the athletic deity stands in contrapposto with his weight on his left leg, the right relaxed and bent at the knee. He holds a plectrum in his lowered right hand, while he raises his left hand, which would have originally grasped a kithara. Gazing to his right, his idealistic visage is crowned by a centrally parted coiffure bound in a fillet and tied in a chignon as 4 long braids fall to his shoulders.
Niobid Statue Nude Woman Roman Baths Thermae Rome Sculpture
Roman, late Republic to early Imperial Period, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. A charming cast-bronze figurine of a fighting dwarf used for entertainment by upper-class citizens. The ithyphallic figure stands nude with a macrophallus draped between stunted legs, exhibits impressive musculature on his thighs, abdomen, and chest, and holds his arms as if wielding a shield and steadying a spear just prior to loosing it through the air. His masculine countenance displays silvered leaded-bronze eyes and furrowed brows as if consumed by the intensity of battle, with a lengthy beard flowing across his pectoral muscles, and a matted coiffure from wearing a helmet.
Pompeiian fresco showing a satyr and a maenad embracing from the House of Cecilio Giocondo, Italy
Satyr and Maenad; Roman fresco from the House of the Greek Epigrams in Pompeii Large
This monthsFriday evening, June 7th monthlyCommunity Drum Circle is ON!!!
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
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.
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.
NAC and NEF are 501(c) nonprofit corporations.
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.”
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.
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.
Our Mission Statement
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.
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.
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.
Rate Sheet
Reservation and Deposit Policy 2024-2025 Winter Season
