Weather (Friday 3 July): A hot day, some clouds, calmish sea, sunny, very light breeze. Max temperature = 34.3°C last night's low = 22.7°C. Temperature at midnight Friday = 26.5°C.
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bit to 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 shared by the naturist and textile populations to an alarming extent 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. Of course things are not 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). And a few textiles are either surprised or even animated when naturists do use the beach (but it is only the British textiles who display extreme symptons of shock and horror - 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 |
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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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