The Berkeley students from the "Skipping Class" event are back, and they have brought friends. This time we do a tour down highway-1 stopping at several places: San Gregorio Beach, Pescadero Marsh, Shark's Tooth Beach and the lower San Lorenzo River. It was a whirlwind of spontaneous energy. On-camera: Taz, Maria, Granite, Yoni, Zero, Ash, Lorena, Hash, Jordan --
Photos by: Jon, Taz, Nomad
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Beach Bums
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Beach Bums
gallery-1 97 photos It's a short walk from the parking lot along the wind swept beach heading north to California's first "nude beach".
gallery-2 111 photos The surf is beguiling yet there is something dangerous in its power. We mostly stay on the comfort of the sand.
gallery-3 95 photos A giant sand pile is great to tumble, slide or cartwheel down.
gallery-4 112 photos Racing down the beach and exploring a strange hard sand wall. Time to move to our next location.
gallery-5 100 photos Next stop, a marshy nature reserve with an intriguing metal bridge that we just have to climb around on.
gallery-6 107 photos Checking out the topography up close, as fog rolls by from the ocean nearby.
gallery-7 117 photos We arrive at Shark's Tooth Beach, a small rugged cove with many opportunities for exploring and climbing.
gallery-8 98 photos Taz directs the group into a series of body mandalas.
gallery-9 104 photos More inventive group photos and hoola-hooping, plus some visual explorations along the train rail near the road.
gallery-10 93 photos For our last stop we go to the river just outside of Santa Cruz.
gallery-11 89 photos The forest and stream seem to be enchanted as twilight envelopes us.
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A 19-minute HD movie is available that covers this event on our new Nclub Movies Website.
The seed of the idea for this trip was to take a group in just a few cars on a route where we would stop here and there and do guerrilla style naked shoots in various unexpected places, with the idea that we would leave quickly enough that there would not be time for anyone to complain. We didn't do quite that as I really don't want to offend the "clothed-minded" public. Except for the nature reserve, all the locations were relatively acceptable places for nudity And the nature reserve had absolutely no one else there. Except for the foggy weather it was a perfect day - a perfect bunch of great creative, inventive and energetic people. And actually it's quite nice to shoot on a beach with soft light. Harsh sunlight can be difficult to deal with photographically. I also shot video at the two beach locations on that day. I took everyone to a great Thai restaurant in Santa Cruz called Sabieng Thai Cuisine. And it was a long drive back to Berkeley to get everyone home - probably 2 hours, and another hour drive for me to get home. A very long day.
