While Spanish Banks is textile, Acadia Beach is officially signed as clothing-optional.

About 20 minutes later, a young man and girl within their late adolescents carrying a backpack emerged from the shore trail within feet of where I was sitting. I have discovered earlier from naked hiking that when you are nude and encounter clothed men, the greatest strategy is to act as if nudity is the most natural thing in the world (which it is!)

It seems they had not been down to the nude beach before, and believed they were at the more well-known Wreck Beach end. They’d passed the “Shore Ahead is Clothes Optional” indication and approached me to inquire where the nude beach began. I pointed out that I was nude if that was any help, and that statement of the “hardly apparent” resulted in a few laughs.

They sat down on the log with me and asked me lots of questions regarding the shore, if it was really legal to be naked outside on a public beach, how many folks were likely to show up, did everyone go nude, etc.

I answered all their questions and didn’t feel at all odd that I was sitting naked talking with two clothed young persons I had never met before. As I say, they looked nervous, but I do not think it had much to do with my nudity.

They’d, actually, come down for the very first time to relish the shore together and had expected to find a place off by themselves for their “first time”. The tide was quite a way outside and I proposed a place maybe 200 feet down the shore, where they could have a patch of sand behind a log, and have access to the large sandbar jutting out in the water, without having to navigate too many sharp stone, etc.

They set off with their back pack and I saw them cease where I proposed and wave back at me. They young man took off his shorts nearly instantly (leaving his t shirt on for some reason), while his girlfriend stayed clothed for a while. But soon after that, I saw the both of them walking hand in hand outside on the sandbar, nude except for flip flops and hats.

I like to think that by simply acting issue-of-factly about being bare when they approached me, not attempting to cover up, etc., that I made them feel a little more comfortable about their first naturist experience together. And after all, isn’t that what got us all “hooked” in the first place? beach sex ?