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Campaign: Help
save Vera Playa's naturist beach
Vera Playa has probably the best and longest stretch of officially
recognised naturist beach in the world - more than 2 kms. But 99%
of naturists use less than half of this leaving 60% or so to become
de facto textile beach. How have naturists - who visit Vera Playa
in their thousands - allowed this to happen? Two reasons - first,
the herd instinct - like moose, penguins or sheep, nearly all naturists
seem to flock together - often this means crowded together, whilst
vast swaithes of beach are either empty or occupied by textiles. Second,
most naturists plomp themselves down on the first bit of beach they
come to when arriving from their hotel, apartment or car. The thought
of walking even a couple of hundred metres seems not to be considered
(casual observation suggests that obesity and an aversion to exercise
is a malady common to both the naturist and textile populations these
days). But the result is that the majority of the length of the official
naturist beach is becoming textile simply by virtue of being effectively
abandoned by naturists. Now it is true that first thing in the morning
quite a few naturists (especially German visitors to the hotel) make
a point of taking a good long morning constitutional on the beach
after breakfast, but later in the day it is pretty difficult to find
even a single naturist on the 50% of the naturist beach southwards
from Playa de Baria 1 to Vera Gardens / Vera Mar - the southern limit
of the official naturist beach (the actual far point is what was called
El camino de los tre olivos - long since built over). Of course
thingshave not been helped by Vera Council's illegal signs showing
this length of beach as being textile when actually it is legally
naturist (and upheld as such by the Ombudsman for Andalucia in 2003).
And a few textiles are either surprised or even animated when naturists
do use the beach (but it is only British textiles who display extreme
symptons of shock, horror, hysteria and imminent heart failure when
faced with the sight of a human bdy in its natural state - but that's
no surprise is it!).
What you can do to help change this situation is to retake this
beach - by using it. Walk it, swim from it, sunbathe on it, cycle
or walk on the promenade. It's a great length of beach and often much
quieter and less used than the northen section of beach (in front
of the naturist urbanizacions and hotel) where nearly all naturists
flock and herd together.
www.veraplaya.info - 4 July 2009 - campaigning for naturists and
naturism |
August
weather arrived in late June this year
Locals are saying that the summer this year was
already warmer in June than the norm in August - 25 June reached 37°C.
The UK has been having a heat wave this week but the chances are that
within a few days temperatures and weather there will be back to normal,
whilst here at Vera Playa there is the near certain prospect of more
than 3 months of practically unbroken sunshine and settled weather
until the autumn. Even holiday visitors adapt to the weather here,
mornings on the beach when it is relatively cool, long lunches and
siestas in the shade or indoors with aircon, and back to the beach
about 5 or 6pm until sunset - then long dinners and outside living
until the early hours.
Fortunately Vera's naturist zone benefits from sea
breezes so never gets as hot as it does even a kilometre or two inland
- temperatures inland can exceed 40 or even 45°C - at Vera Playa
it is rare to exceed 35°C.
Some local restaurants are complaining that the
economic situation is hitting them badly this year, but there seems
no shortage of naturists on Vera's beach, especially at weekends,
when both locals and visitors in large numbers are taking full advantage
of the superb beach and warm Mediterranean sea.
www.veraplaya.info - news - 2 July 2009 |
Fire-fighting
seaplane uses sea at Vera Playa

Sunbathers on Vera Playa's naturist beach had an unexpected spectacle
to divert their attention early evening on 27 June as a Fire Service
seaplane made repeated sorties to scoop water up from the sea to help
fight a large bush fire in the campo, in the area of the Karst and
Yesos Natural Park, between the E15 motorway and the village of Sorbas,
around 35 kms inland from Vera Playa. Occupiers of some 190 fincas
and cortijos in the countryside had to leave their homes and traffic
was halted for a while on the motorway. The huge column of smoke climbing
thousands of feet into the sky could be seen from the beach. After
7 sorties to Vera Playa the fire plane diverted to pick up further
loads of water from Carboneras during the evening, possibly because
the sea at Vera Playa had become quite choppy. Helicopters were also
used to help in the fire-fighting effort. It is understood that there
were two or more seats to the fire. The area concerned is close to
mainland Europe's only official desert of Tabernas and the countryside
was, no doubt, tinder dry.
www.veraplaya.info - news - 28 & 30 June 2009
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New facilities
for naturist zone
Residents & visitors who prefer not to don clothes will be pleased
to know that the small supermarket to the left of the Vera Natura
reception building has now repened and sells a wide range of foodstuffs
including fresh bread - opening hours are 08:00 to 24:00hrs - much
longer than used to be the case when this mini-supermarket was last
in operation, which will be very handy for newly arriving visitors.
Also, a new cafe/bar, the Trinidad, just to the right hand side of
the Vera Natura reception building is now open. The Buena Vista (previously
called Sol y Luna) has now reopened as the "Restaurante Vera
Natura" and is offering "Menu 12". The Pirate
chiringuito (on the beach) has been much improved with decking and
tables and chairs.
www.veraplaya.info - news - 28 June & 3 July 2009 |
New Association
seeks to improve beach facilities
At the initiative of the owner of the Puntonat kiosk (next to Vera
Natura) who is a seasoned campaigner for naturist rights and a veteran
of naked naturist marches in Madrid, a series of metings of local
residents and property owners has brought into existence a new association
which will seek to organise events and campaign for improvements in
communal facilities in the naturist zone and on the naturist beach.
The first meeting appointed officers of the new association and action
has already been taken to register it with the provincial government
in Almeria so it has legal status and may also be eligible for government
grant etc. The first requests for improvements have already gone to
Vera Council and include seeking permission for a beach barbeque and
bonfire at San Juan (23 June), a request for dog poo bins to be sited
on the beach and promenade and for the derelict ice cream kiosk to
be removed. Council workers have been busy clearing away various items
of detritus on the beach and re-erecting the toppled lifeguard look-out
post and the ice cream kiosk has been reassembled and put ready for
use.
More information on our Online Forum - click
here
www.veraplaya.info - news - 26 June 2009 |
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Online Forum is coming up to Two
Our online forum is coming up to 2 years old and over that period
has averaged over 750 page views per day. Guests can browse our
Visitors Forumwhich has boards and topics of interest to holiday
visitors. But if you join the more than 240 registered members you
will be able to see many more forums and boards and make your
own postings - there are more than 1500 postings on over 250 different
topics.
If you own a property at Vera Playa we have a Forum
just for owners AND we also have private forums for owners
at each of the main naturist urbanizacions (you must contact the
forum administrator to apply for access to these owners' forums).
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