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)
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