Naked walk near ramsgate

Many thanks to Peter for sending details of this walk to me.

A great beach for walking naked is Sandwich Bay near Ramsgate. (It will cost about £6 for a car ticket on the private road. Consider that as your parking fee for the day)

Drive through the town of Sandwich and head for the Bay. Follow signs or ask a local the way. You pass a toll booth and usually have to buy a ticket to continue. Follow signs to the beach and turn left when you reach the sea front. Drive on until you reach the gate of the Princes Golf Club, at that point turn right onto the grass and park. Walk over the top of the beach and (at low tide) onto the sand. Head to the left (north) and get your kit off whenever you feel comfortable ( I usually go about 200metres). The further you go the less dog walkers etc, but they are not really troublesome.

The walk is about 2 miles until you reach the river mouth and can go no further. There is a bird sanctuary near the river, so stay well away from the grassy area when you see the signs.

At very low tides you may find quick sands, so don’ go too far out at low water. Don’t stay too long in the bird area but find a spot about half way between the car park and the bird reserve signs for your picnic. I’ve spent many a long day with wife and friends on the beach here, but beware of cool east winds in the early summer. In over 50 years or nude sun bathing on this beach, I have never had any adverse comments from passers-by or other beach users.

Looks like a great spot Peter – we will have to try to make an effort this summer to get to the south east and check this beach out!

Northcoates Point and Mablethorpe

A naked walk in public which is in a surprisingly wild spot given its closeness to some major urban areas.

When you get onto the beach (assuming you have parked at the north end), turn right (south) and walk a bit until you feel you are far enough away from the entry point to the beach and then find a spot to get naked and stash your clothes and bag. We always like to walk totally naked – carrying no bags or “emergency clothes”, usually just wearing a hat and a pair of sunglasses. For me it gives an amazing feeling of total commitment to my nakedness which I simply wouldn’t have if I knew that i had a bag or any fall-back coverups with me. It took my wife a while to get used to this level of commitment to naked walking, but now she is probably more focussed on taking nothing with us than I am!

Once you have stashed, you can either walk down the beach, close to the small run of dunes, or strike out to the waterline and then turn south again to continue. The walk to the waterline can sometimes be a bit sticky as the sand can get a bit silted, but persevere as there are usually some great and bars down at the waterline to walk south on.

BE AWARE THAT YOU MUST ONLY WALK DOWN TO THE WATERLINE ON A FALLING TIDE – NEVER ON A RISING TIDE. THE TIDE COMES IN VERY FAST OVER THE SAND BARS AND IT IS VERY EASY TO GET CUT OFF. PLEASE CHECK THE TIDE TABLES BEFORE YOU SET OFF.

Keep walking for about 45-60 mins until you come to the obvious start of the next part of the beach. If you have walked close to the top of the beach this will be the point at which you have had to strike out left and skirt round the marshy / dune area, if you have walked down the waterline it will be when you come to the stretch of sand which is busier.

It may be best not to go much further than this, tempting though it may be, unless you are very brave and confient – the next section of the beach is very popular with textile holiday makers from the big holiday camp at saltfleet. If it is quiet though, then why not go further? There is a great all day extension down to Mablethorpe town beach too. If you do walk the next stretch then you will almost certainly meet some textiles. In the summer this beach can get very busy indeed, and becomes very very sketchy with large amounts of textiles. When I did this walk on my own a couple of years ago on a weekday in the spring it was already getting busy and I almost turned round at this point. Make your own judgement!

If you press on, it is an extra mile or so to the next change in the beach when you reach the south end of the popular stretch and reach the stream running across the sand. If the tide is out you can keep going all the way down to Mablethorpe Town Beach! Its a long way though…

On my visit, the sun was out, it was mid morning and the next stretch of beach south looked pretty quiet so I carried on. I turned right, up to the top of the wet sand close to the top of the beach and carried on down towards Mablethorpe. The beach was pretty quiet, with a few people hunkered in the dunes at the top of the beach (possibly naturists), and a few groups of textiles close to the obvious entry points to the beach from car parking spots. I kept going all the way down to Mablethorpe passing the odd textile and dog walker. To be honest I probably got carried away and went a bit too far south as I rocked up on the pretty busy north end of Mablethorpe Town Beach – i really only stopped when the beach was way too busy and I was getting lots of long looks from the increasingly large numbers of textiles. I headed out to the waterline and turned back north.

This full walk as described is not for the faint hearted. It is a long way (reckon on 7-8 miles each way), and you have to be very careful of your timing with the tides at the top end. It is well worth it though. I have to say that the feeling of commitment to your nakedness in public is fantastic when you go this far from your start point. It was an amazing feeling of absolute freedom to be naked with no fall-back coverups at the busy and very public north end of Mablethorpe Town Beach and know that I had a good 3 hrs walking to do to get back to my clothes and bag.

You can of course do either the northern or southern loops individually for a shorter less committing walk, but if you can, try do do the whole thing, it is a fantastic naked experience and well worth the effort! I would say that this was the best day of naked walking I have ever had…

English: Mablethorpe – North End Beach at Low Tide (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: On golden sand Sun setting on Mablethorpe Beach. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Mablethorpe – Beach and Dunes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Mablethorpe Beach. Photo by E Asterion u talking to me? 21:56, 11 June 2006 (UTC) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Druridge Bay – Northumberland

This another beautiful spot for a naked walk in a public place. Druridge Bay is around 4 miles long, so it is possible to have a really long naked walk in the most astounding wild place.

It can be several degrees colder up here inNorthumberland than in the south of the country, but don’t let that put you off, on a good warm spring or summer day the temperature is great for walking naked.

There is no “best spot” to start your walk, but its probably a good idea not to strip off too close to either of the main car parks at the north and south end of the beach, as this is where you will generally find the most textiles. We tend to park at one of the smaller car parks and walk through the dunes then turn left (north) or right (south) and walk a short distance until we find a quiet spot to get naked and stash our clothes and gear.

I have been here several times with my wife (never in a group) and have had great naked walks along the beach. We have walked the whole length of the beach naked, usually at low to mid tide, at the waterline and had no real issues. The beach is used by naturists for sunbathing and swimming, but most naked people keep a fairly low profile, usually taking a spot at the top of the beach or just back in the dunes, only venturing down to have a dip in the water.

In that respect it is unusual for any naked people to be walking the length of the beach, and it is probable that you will meet some textile walkers, guaranteed at the weekend. Having said that, if you come here on a weekday (for some reason the start of the week seems to be quieter), it is usually very quiet. I have been on the beach on some summer days and pretty much had it to myself.

We have been here on a spring weekend (in May) and it was still very quiet – we met only five or six textiles at the waters edge in about 2 hrs of naked walking. To be honest we quite like walking in sketchy locations, it all adds to the fun when you see the looks on some of the faces of the textiles.

All in all, this is one of my most favoured beaches up north, it is pretty remote, in an amazing location, and gives a great naked walk.

I thoroughly recommend that you ditch your clothes and walk the full length of Druridge bay naked, unencumbered by clothes, bags or any un-natural encumbrances, you won’t regret it.

Saunton Sands – Devon

A great naked walk along a fantastic public beach where you sometimes can have the beach almost to yourself. I have walked this route loads of times, both on my own, with my wife and with a couple of friends.  The beach can get busy in the summer but the further you walk south on the beach the quieter it gets So you should have no problems getting naked. We have never had any issues with other beach users other than a few surprised looks. The full walk is long (around 10 miles) but of course you can easily turn round at any point and walk back.

The best place to start is at the public car park. Park up here then walk down to the beach via the access path. Turn left (south) and walk a few hundred metres down the beach and find a spot to stash your clothes and get naked. We like to get naked as soon as possible to maximise the fun!

we usually walk down to the low water line and then walk  South down the beach until we reach the far end where it curves around to the left gently before reaching the point at the southernmost tip of the dune complex. There is a coastguard  watch tower here which sometimes is manned, sometimes is not. This part of the beach is very narrow and you may consider it a little too sketchy if you are uncomfortable walking naked where you may encounter some textiles.  We never really had any problems other than a few surprised looks from the rather bemused textiles.

The next section, (which to be fair is very short) is definitely a spot where you stand a good chance of an encounter with textile walkers as the beach is very close to the coast path, again though we have never had any issues. We have never walked beyond the buildings a few hundred yards further on. When you have gone far enough just turn around and walk back!

It is possible to find your way back through the dunes, but it is very hard going and on a hot day almost unbearably hot – You can’t just walk down the beach and have a quick dip to cool off! We usually just retrace our steps back along the beach at the waterline or walk along the top of the beach.

I hope you enjoy this walk, it is a beautiful beach and an amazing public place to spend a day walking naked.

 

 

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Hi, and thanks for dropping by. This site is here to tell the world about our favorite places to walk naked – usually on the beach. The site is new (February 2013), but we will be adding new content as and when we can.

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