Adele D. Oliver


Community Manager, Lotusland, Canada

The View

from Wreck Beach across the Salish Sea to the mountains of Vancouver Island ...

we walked on the beach from Trail 6 to Trail 3 - not easy climbing over rocks and logs - the incoming tide on one side, the steep cliffs on the other ...
.The beach is reclaimed from the sea in a joint venture with the Canadian Army and UBC to train cadets for beach landings in WWI, hence the presence of the "instrument towers". In the Great Depression, nude bathing became popular due to high costs of swimsuits ... after first swimming at Siwash Rock at Stanley Park, people flocked to Wreck Beach.which increased in popularity with hippies until the late 1960s when a police raid in 1970 yielded a dozen arrests. The Georgia Straight (Vancouverr newspaper) staged a nude-in protest with 3,000 showing up and the charges were dropped,1991 when it was officially designated a legally recognised nudist beach ,,,

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