- Sun Nov 17, 2019 9:36 am
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Dj561 is right. The weather has been too cool to be good beach weather. There always seems to be a few beach walkers, but I’d be surprised to find any nude use of the beach. The weather forecast for this coming Thursday looks like it could be pretty nice, but some rain is being expected for Friday and Saturday. Of course that could change.
The best beach weather for JB is generally March, April, and May. February is iffy. Be aware that it begins to get pretty hot and humid in say about mid June, making the walk past the turnaround unpleasant to say the least. The humidity and heat begin to let up in mid September, allowing for good beach weather into early November, maybe beyond if lucky. Just bring bug spray to ward off any biting flies and you might find depending on the wind.
These times of the year JB is just a beautiful place, practically a nudist paradise in my opinion. From the entrance pavilion to the turnaround, JB gets a fair amount of clothed use. However, past the turnaround continuing to walk east, nude users can too often be counted on one hand. I probably exaggerate, but not by much. Even clothed users don’t out number the nude users by much, if at all.
In the past, those wanting to take full advantage of JB in the nude, prudently walked a mile or more down the beach from the turnaround. This was to avoid the ranger on a 4X4 that policed the beach campers in this area of JB. For the last two years beach camping has been banned and ranger visits via 4X4 have dwindled down to about one early morning visit per day. And these are mostly the biologist ranger and/or volunteers that check on shore bird and sea turtle nesting sites when in season.
The biologist ranger has caught me nude a couple of times over the last two years, but he has just waved and drove the 4X4 on by. I’ve talked to him a few times, not about nude use, but the sea turtles and shore birds. He and the volunteers seem to love to discuss the beach wildlife, and they can give you a lot of interesting information, if you take the time to ask. Still it is prudent to cover up if you see a 4X4 coming up the beach.
Of course, regular rangers could give you a fine, but I kind of believe they would more likely give you a verbal warning. Also keep in mind that the Florida Escambia County Sheriffs Office can patrol JB. The county deputies I’ve talked to tell me they only come out when called by the rangers to enforce the parking laws. And they seem genuinely irritated that the rangers can’t police their own parking violators in the park. If you see a Sheriffs SUV, they are more likely there for the parking violators, not to arrest nude users past the turnaround.
You also might encounter the rangers with some large groups of volunteers. Mostly this occurs once or twice a year for beach clean up. This group will be all over the beach even in the dunes. Plus there might be a similar group once or twice year doing a beach erosion survey. Again they can be all over the beach including the dunes. They aren’t there to hassle anyone, just working to make the JB a better place.
I don’t cover up for beach walkers and haven’t had any complaints. I even got several questions involving nude use of JB. My philosophy is that clothed beach goers need to know that this area of JB east of the turnaround is available for nude use, even if it is not legal, just acceptable shall we say. This way maybe we can get more nude use of JB. In addition, I don’t think it is necessary to make the mile hike down the beach to go nude. If you walk only about a quarter mile or so, you will get past the places were clothed boaters from the lagoon cross over to use the beach. I’m seeing more and more nude use in this area with no problems.
So here is hoping for a return to better weather so all us nudists can enjoy JB.
- By Clownkicker