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**Longstanding Sandy Bay naturist element under SANParks review**
By Thabo Sebata, 11 April 2026
Sandy Bay, South Africa's most famous clothing-optional beach, began over 50 years ago with university students. This unique spot within Table Mountain National Park is hard to reach but draws a diverse crowd who shed their clothes freely. It's a place where old rules meet new ideas, and people connect with nature in a very open way. Despite new tech and challenges, it remains a special place where freedom is celebrated with every tide.
What is Sandy Bay known for?
Sandy Bay is renowned as South Africa's most storied clothing-optional beach, a unique social laboratory where university students first started the tradition over fifty years ago. Located within Table Mountain National Park, it's famous for its challenging accessibility and an unwritten code of conduct governing a diverse community of naturists and visitors.
Tucked beneath Karbonkelberg’s shadow, a whisper-thin trail drops toward a crescent of ivory sand that doesn’t advertise itself on any highway billboard. Taxi drivers won’t brag about it, and Google Maps keeps its name in lowercase, yet every summer the narrow path disgorges a quiet parade of day-trippers who will, within minutes, trade fabric for sunbeams. No minister ever christened the spot “officially clothing-optional”; still, for fifty-odd years bathers have treated the act of undressing as casually as kicking off shoes at a friend’s kitchen door. What began as a handful of university students escaping exam stress has become South Africa’s most storied open-air social laboratory, a place where jurisdiction, etiquette and epidermis overlap in ways no legislature ever planned...

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**Finding My Ikigai: A More Personal Look at the Work I Do**
By SlavicUncovered, Apr 9, 2026
I thought I’d do something a little different this time. Instead of focusing purely on what I offer, I want to share a bit more about myself — my journey, my influences, and how I ended up doing work that genuinely feels like mine. If you’ve ever been curious about what really sits behind what I do, here we go:
Finding My Ikigai
There’s a Japanese concept called ikigai — often translated as “a reason for being” or “your life’s meaning.” It describes that rare intersection of four things: what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can earn from. When all four align, something clicks into place that’s hard to put into words. It makes everything worthwhile.
Before I get into the philosophy of it all, perhaps I should say what it actually is that I do.
I’m a qualified and experienced massage therapist, as well as a relationship counsellor and sexual and intimacy coach — more on those in future articles. That combination might sound unusual at first — but in practice, it fits together more naturally than you might expect. The body, the mind, connection, touch, awareness — these things are rarely as separate as we tend to treat them.
I just LOVE it. All of it. Not in a polished, professional-brochure kind of way — but genuinely, deeply. I love naturism; I love helping people become the best version of themselves; I love the healing power of touch — so I do what I love most, and it’s my work too. It’s the kind of work that still makes me curious, still challenges me, and still feels meaningful after years of doing it.
When I’m working — really working, fully present, with my hands responding to what I feel rather than what I think I should be doing — everything else fades. There’s a calm focus that settles in, steady and quiet. It’s difficult to describe unless you’ve experienced something similar yourself.
But when it happens, you know. You know you’re in the right place.
How Naturism Shaped My Work
One of the more unexpected influences on both how I work and how I see people is naturism.
Not in any dramatic way. Quietly, steadily, over time.
When you spend meaningful time in naturist environments, something quite simple begins to happen: bodies stop being things to evaluate. You encounter all shapes and sizes, ages and stages, and differences — and gradually, it just becomes normal. Unremarkable. Human.
That shift has had a profound effect on my bodywork practice...

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**'Jarring in a park': Foreigners weigh in on Austria's relaxed attitude to public nudity**
By Rachel Loxton, 14 Apr, 2026
Austria's laissez-faire attitude to public nudity is a culture shock to many foreign residents and visitors to the country. We asked readers to share their thoughts on baring it all.
Whether heading to a spa resort or visiting the beach, there's one thing you can be sure of in Austria: you will see a whole lot of people.
And by a whole lot we mean fully naked. Freikörperkultur (free body culture) – the German term to describe nudism or naturism – is practiced by many Austrians who enjoy doing activities like socialising, swimming, hiking, sunbathing and even cycling in the nude.
Several FKK beaches are dotted around the country, while saunas are usually "textile free". The idea is to embrace the naked body in non-sexual way. It is also seen as hygienic and healthy to be without clothes, especially when sweating.
So what do foreigners in Austria – and visitors – make of this approach to nudity that is often so different to their home country?
'I like to see people being free'
In a recent survey, the majority of The Local readers said that nudity in public spaces in Austria did not make them feel uncomfortable.
"I enjoy the German style sauna. It's a place to be free of clothes," said Nick, 44, who lives in Vorarlberg. "I like to see nudity, people being free and not bound by societal norms."
On our Facebook post on the topic, George Saliba said: "I like that it represents freedom."
Alison Wareham, 54, who's a frequent visitor to Austria and self-confessed Austrophile, said she thinks nudity makes sense in spas and saunas and has never been bothered by it...

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**Naturists no longer welcome at popular Costra Tropical beach bars**
By MJ Arrebola, 14 April 2026
In the heart of the natural area of Maro-Cerro Gordo on the border between the Costa del Sol and Granada province's Costa Tropical Cantarriján beach has always been synonymous with freedom, coexistence and respect. For decades, this corner of Almuñécar has been one of the great references of naturism in Andalucía, a place where naturists and people in clothes have shared space without conflict and with a good atmosphere.
In the last few weeks, this seemingly "unbreakable" good atmosphere has been changed by a decision that has caused conflict between the naturist community and the owners of the beach bars in the area.
The conflict is due to a change of criteria at La Barraca and La Bola Marina beach bars, which - according to the association of friends of Cantarriján naturist beach (AAPNC) - have begun to demand that naturists dress in order to be able to use certain areas or services where, until now, this requirement did not exist or was more flexible.
The association has been working for approximately nine years with the aim of giving visibility to naturism and promoting coexistence on the beach. During this time, they claim to have worked constantly with the beach bars, especially with La Barraca, to establish agreements that would allow naturists to be accepted at the bars....

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