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APRIL NEWSLETTER
The 2021 Full Bloom Renew and Restore Weekend for Young Adults will be April 9-11
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COVID-19 Update
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Sunsport is open to guests.
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Sunsport Gardens continues to comply with Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Palm Beach County requirements for safety during the Covid 19 pandemic.
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Indoors: masks, except when actively eating, and six feet distancing are required.
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Outdoors:masks or six feet distancing are required. Six feet distancing applies to everyone except same household members.
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The sauna is a small enclosed space. For safety reasons, the Sunsport Board has decided that sauna use will be limited to one person at a time with a mask for the duration of the pandemic.
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Remember staying six feet away from other people and wear a mask when applicable.
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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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Brand new cabin is ready to rent & enjoy.
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To see pictures and descriptions of all our rentals and a map of locations.....go here.
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The Orchid Cabin
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Sunsport Gardens is enjoying some of the best weather of the year with lots of sun and not too hot or cold weather.
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Community Happenings
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People are playing daily petanque and increasingly popular pickle ball. There is also volleyball limited to fours due to the need for social distancing even outdoors. We have had some morning qigong and, of course, Saturday evening movie nights with popcorn where people take turns choosing the movie to be shown. Many of Sunsport's members have been vaccinated. Hopefully almost all will be vaccinated by the end of May allowing some relaxation of restrictions. We're looking forward to being able to exchange hugs with friends again.
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Movie Night
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Saturday movie nights replacing dances remains very popular. Movies begin at 8:30 pm in the pavilion. The movies are now shown on a new large television screen .
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Daily Events
Ongoing activities include daily afternoon Pétanque at 2, Water Aerobics Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 10, morning pickleball.
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Monthly Drum Circle
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The April 2nd First Friday Community Drum Circle is ON!
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The drumming leaders will remind people to wear masks and social distance 6 feet apart. We are reinstituting the Drum Circles due to confidence that drummers and dancers will respect their own safety and the safety of others.
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The annual Easter Egg Hunt for children will be on Sunday, April 4th. Children should meet on the restaurant deck at 11 am. The Bloodmobile will be at Sunsport on Sunday, April 11th, from 11 am to 4 pm. As usual, a community drum circle will be on the first Friday, April 2nd.
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The 2021 Full Bloom Renew and Restore Weekend for Young Adults will be April 9-11
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Karl Harris is planning great workshops and music. The Caribbean Breeze Band will play poolside. There will be a campfire, a fire spinning demonstration, yoga, tie dye, a flow class with hoops and poi, labyrinth meditation, and several relationship and personal growth workshops. A special rate for people ages 18-30 is $20 for whole weekend including free tent camping in the drum circle area.
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Over age 30, regular Sunsport rates apply; tent camping is free if partnered in a tent with a person aged 18-30. Children are always free. As with the Midwinter Naturist Festival, coupons for a free day for first time visitors will not be honored during the Full Bloom Weekend.
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Sunsport Tee Shirts.......
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We now have 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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The restaurant will reopen for lunches during season when attendance warrants.
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Sunsport's restaurant, the Naturally Nude Cafe, is seeking a part time cook and server. If interested, you can get an application form in the office.
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Sunsport's restaurant, the Naturally Nude Cafe, is now serving with limited seating space in addition to its take out and delivery service.
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Call 561-485-5554 to place an order.
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Now people from outside Sunsport can order delicious and healthful food from the Naturally Nude Cafe through Uber-Eats. That should help people in the community become more aware of Sunsport.
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The tennis/pickleball courts will be closed for a while in mid-April for resurfacing.
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Important!
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All people having permanent sites must sign a year-long lease. People not signing a lease must pay State of Florida and Palm Beach County Tourist Development Taxes of 13% which will be added to their bill.
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The Sunsport Maintenance Team spends many hours daily collecting trash and recycling. Please bag all trash, separate recycling items, and either notify maintenance if you are putting large items in front of your lot or put large items in front of, not in, the main dumpster. It would be most helpful if residents and guests would take all recyclable items and bagged trash to the main dumpster area.
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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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ArtBox Gallery
Drum Class with Michael @ the ArtBox Yard
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Alligators
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Sunsport often has alligators in its ponds. For safety reasons, the County attempts to relocate them to the Everglades. It is almost impossible to trap the alligators when people feed the fish and turtles.
The people food is not good for the fish and turtles; please refrain from the feeding particularly when alligators are around as in late March.
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May is the month when lower summer rates for ground fees and site rentals start.
Site holders may choose between taking a significantly lower summer rate or opting for a year-round rate which is half way between the summer and winter rates.
Three new young families have moved into Sunsport. Come meet them and enjoy Sunsport's natural beauty.
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Birds Life with Theresa
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Yondu taking Theresa for a walk.
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The Sunsport Board has established a Nature Preserve
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area including the walking and golf cart nature trails through the jungle, the labyrinth, the permaculture project, the lotus pond, and the meditation field overlooked by the new beautiful Buddha Head. The cart trail has been elevated to avoid flooding. There will be no camping in the area, just experiencing Sunsport's natural beauty. Thanks to John Dodge and the Planning and Land Stewardship Committee for developing the area. The Nature Preserve exemplifies the spirit of Sunsport.
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Permaculture Sunsport News
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Our Newest Addition :
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)
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You can eat breadfruit at any stage. When it's small and green, it tastes like an artichoke. When it's starchy and mature, it's the equivalent of a potato. When it's soft and ripe, it's dessert.
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A traditional staple in Hawaii, breadfruit is sometimes called the tree potato, for its potato-like consistency when cooked. Except breadfruit has higher-quality protein and packs a healthy dose of vitamins and minerals.
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Please make a small donation to help us continue to create.
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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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Imogen Cunningham (1883 – 1976)
One of the most prolific photographers in the history of the medium, Imogen Cunningham broke barriers for women in photography and was an important figure in the movement fine art photography in the early to mid-1900s.
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Born in Portland, Oregon in 1883, Cunningham began her photographic pursuits with glass plate, a large format camera, and often using herself as a model, as seen in one of her fist images, Self-Portrait, 1906, thought to be the first nude female self-portrait in photographic history.
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She also pushed the medium’s boundaries in her Mount Rainier images in which she was one of the first to place a nude male subject (her husband, Roi Partridge) in front of her lens. Her experimental camera and darkroom work, detailed plant studies, and gripping portraits of fellow artists and dancers are also among the most praised images of the time.
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“One must be able to gain an understanding at short notice and close range of the beauties of character, intellect, and spirit so as to be able to draw out the best qualities and make them show in the outer aspect of the sitter. To do this one must not have a too pronounced notion of what constitutes beauty in the external and, above all, must not worship it. To worship beauty for its own sake is narrow, and one surely cannot derive from it that esthetic pleasure which comes from finding beauty in the commonest things.” – Imogen Cunningham
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This months Friday evening,
April 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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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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Reservation and Deposit Policy 2021-2022
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