Travelites' National Nude Weekend at Whispering Pines & Canoe trip

[Cheri]

Most arrive at Whispering Pines, Ocean Isle Beach, NC Friday afternoon. (www.whisperingpinesnudistresort.com) Others meet us at the canoe put-in point in the Nichols, SC area @ 11am. We stop at @ noon for lunch and a few other stops for skinnydippping. It's an easy 7 mile float on canoe and kyak. Some canoes are availabale to rent at $25/person and include a 1/3 lb. deli sandwich (ham, turkey, roastbeef & cheese).

We get off the Low Country River in time to get back to the park, clean up and head out to dinner.

Generally, we stay till almost dinner time on Sunday playing volleyball (great pool for it) and relaxing.

For more information and reservations email me at cheridonna@prodigy.net

:) Cheri

[Cheri]

Whispering Pines is a great place to relax and de-stress or play water volleyball or just chat with old and new friends. Over National Nude Weekend these past 9 years, I have organized a canoe trip and used this park as our base camp.

Some of us arrived at the park on Friday night as we did and rented one of their trailers aka park models; some tent camped. Others met us at the put-in landing on Saturday morning. Once we finally all got together after shuttling cars, it was the perfect day. We had 10 boats on the river. We stopped a number of times to skinnydip, eat lunch, and enjoy nature. No one spilled although one boater got stuck on a sandbar and a log tried to hold him hostage once.

We saw some interesting tracks that included deer and turtles and probably a wild turkey or two.

The weather was the best we've ever had including a lower than expected humidity. Those clubs represented in the trip: Travelites, North Carolina Naturists, Triangle Area Naturists, Whispering Pines.

All but three boaters returned to the park in time to clean ourselves up and join in the yummy Italian potluck supper. Everything from eggplant parmesan to linguine w/clam sauce plus desserts to really make your mouths water. Later on Saturday, karaoke and dancing were on the menu.

There were a few youngsters at the park, many were over 30, and they are all great folk, we look forward to a return next time.

Sunday the weather remained perfect. At 1pm I gave a Government Affairs introduction. At about 4pm, we decided to start back with a 2-hr. stop at a good Italian restaurant in Little River.

:) Cheri