Skinny Dipping

If you are like most of the folks around here, you love to take off your clothing and jump in the warm water. The freedom you experience is exhilarating. There are only a few minor problems with this type attitude, one, it's against the law, and two, where do you go so that you will not bring the wrath of Ranger Bob or the Island policia into your life.  Rangers surely frown, at least that's what they are supposed to do, when they encounter a skinny hiney protruding from a sand dune or wave. You will be cited and have to appear in court, and that particularly defeats the whole idea of skinny dipping. 


Skinny dipping is great fun, and it can be accomplished with little hassle if you care to take precautions.  There are two extremely important things to remember.  First, you want to emerge from your swim with the same amount of body parts that you went in with.  It is very dangerous to swim during feeding times.  Early morning and early evening.  Second, you want to watch out for jelly fish.  The sting can be very painful on your leg or arm, and triple the intensity on those newly exposed parts.


With thousands of miles of sandy shorelines and warm sunshine year-round, you might think that finding a nude beach on the Gulf Coast of Florida would be a cinch. However, if you want to go nude on Florida's Gulf Coast, you have to be choosy...and careful!

Locating a nude beach in this area basically means finding a stretch of sand that's off the beaten path where you can discreetly bare it all. Though a few of the area's beaches have earned a reputation as "clothing optional" or "nude beaches,"  remember! local law doesn't view them as such. While there are plenty of remote stretches of beach along the Florida Gulf Coast where nude sunbathing and skinny-dipping go largely ignored (when done with discretion), the fact remains: If you get caught, you could be cited for nudity at any of the Florida Panhandle beaches.