Nakation Chronicles VII: SXM, and Croatia

October 27, 2018Dan Carlson 1 Comment

Been awhile since I made an installment into our Nakation Chronicles, this one documenting our two big expeditions for 2009; our last annual trek to St. Marten, and our second visit to Croatia.

We had been going to SXM every year at about the same time, and we decided to mix things up a bit this particular year by renting a small boat to make our way out to Green Cay. Knowing that, at this writing, Orient Bay is still very much in recovery mode, it always makes me a bit sad to see some of these picture from the glory days.

Our first visit to Croatia was more family oriented, but this time we started in Dubrovnik – just the two of us – and made our way up, with a stop on the Island of Rab, and finally to Koversada, which would subsequently become one of our naturist go-to places. (The apartments there are hard to beat.) We also spent about a week in a stone cottage at Palmizana, not really a naturist place, but with lots of places to get naked – including the neighboring island of Jerolim. Have always wanted to get back there, but haven’t quite figured that out yet. Nearby Hvar is also a great place for nightlife, though not so easy to get to from the Palmizana resort.

Palmizana

Koversada

Green Cay

Palmizana

Jerolim

Palmizana

Koversada

Palmizana

Green Cay

Orient Beach

Green Cay

Palmizana

Jerolim

Green Cay

You may want to check out the previous Nakation Chronicles installments:

Nakation Chronicles I: The Pre-Digital Age

Nakation Chronicles II: France and Corsica

Nakation Chronicles III: St. Martin, Croatia, Corsica and France

Nakation Chronicles IV: Living Waters, St. Martin, Cap d’Agde, Ile du Levant, and France

Nakation Chronicles V: SXM, Spain, and La Jenny

Nakation Chronicles VI: Mexico, SXM, and Greece

GALLERY: Reminiscing on Greece 2018

July 25, 2018Dan Carlson 2 Comments

We have two naturist adventures this summer – the first being Gavdos and Crete (the second is yet to come) – each of which are stunning for naturists in very different ways. Where I live, the weather has been bleak, rainy, and humid, so I decided to binge a bit this morning while reminiscing about nakation in Greece. <sigh>

Nakation Chronicles III: St. Martin, Croatia, Corsica, and France (2005)

October 25, 2017Dan Carlson 8 Comments

Just now grabbing a few minutes to get back to my blog after our recent summer naturist activity ended quite abruptly and we re-entered the clothed and work-a-day world. And thus, on to the third installment of the Nakation Chronicles, especially poignant as 2005 was our first visit to St. Martin (SXM), as well as one of our first major naturist journeys across Europe, including Croatia, Corsica, and two places in France. Looking back, I find that we didn’t take so many photos that summer devoid of full-frontal nudity. But it chronicles our naked travel, nonetheless.

La Jenny, France

Oasis, France

Valalta, Croatia

Happy Beach, SXM

Orient Beach, SXM

Tintemarre, SXM

Orient Beach, SXM

Make sure you check out the previous Nakation Chronicles installments:

Nakation Chronicle I: The Pre-Digital Age

Nakation Chronical II: France and Corsica

Nakation Chronicles II: France and Corsica

November 2, 2016Dan Carlson 9 Comments

Installment number two of my attempt to chronicle our naturist travels as I go about sorting through the thousands of photos we’ve collected over the years…

Two big events in 2004: We bought a new digital camera (our first Canon Digital Rebel), and we got away for almost two weeks without the kids to explore the south of France and Corsica.

After an afternoon picnic a beach called La Bau Rouge near Toulon, we boarded the overnight ferry to Corisca, where Riva Bella became our home base, situated on a long naturist beach on the east coast of this beautiful island. That also afforded us the opportunity to visit two other naturist resorts, La Chiappa near Porto Vechhio, and U-Furu; a rustic naturist campground with a trail that leads up a small ravine to natural pools and a waterfall.

Back on the mainland, we made our first visit to Club Origan where one of the main features is a 90-minute walk along the ridges of the surrounding mountains. That became our daily workout ritual. We were also able to squeeze in a day trip to Ile du Levant – what would become the first of many in the ensuing years.

Club Origan

Ile du Levant

Club Origan

Corisca

Club Origan

La Chiappa

U-Furu

La Chiappa

U-Furu

La Bau Rouge

Riva Bella

U-Furu

La Bau Rouge

Check out the ongoing “100 Naked Places” project

Naked Places in France

Naked Places elsewhere in Europe – Under Construction

Naked Places in North America

Naked Places in the Caribbean, Central, and South America – Under Construction

Naked Places in Asia, Africa, and Australia

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Nakation Chronicles I: The Pre-digital Age

October 24, 2016Dan Carlson 12 Comments

I’ve taken on the project of organizing my photo library – a huge undertaking in the digital age. In doing so, I thought it would be fun to chronicle our nakation adventures since we got serious about naturist travel back in the late 1990s.

This is the first installment, mainly digitized prints from our first outings to the southwest of France. Back in the day when you had to send your film off to a processor advertising in a naturist magazine so you wouldn’t raise the dander of a Walmart employee. Even though we became active naturists around 1989, we have very few photos from those early, early days.