The quality of this photo is not what I am normally used to, however, for an image from a small tablet camera, it is more than good enough for today’s post. My recent silence has had everything to do with being at Green Haven Sun Club, a naturist/nudist campground almost five hours away from my home in western Saskatchewan. The campgrounds are about a half hour east of Regina. We arrived at Green Haven early on Wednesday to be greeted with sunshine and a welcome from others we know who were already on site. This was our third visit to Green Haven as a couple.
For five days, we lived without clothing and were blessed with warm/hot temperatures and almost too much sunshine. This was our first visit that included a week-end, so we got to see new people arrive on the site and in the process made some new friendships. The experience reinforced the idea that Green Haven was a community, a prairie community that mirrored other prairie communities. The same problems and the same positive qualities were present. The only difference was that at Green Haven everyone was naked. And with the exception of a small number, most returned to their home communities and the jobs they had their whether that was to farm, to sell real estate, engage in construction, or do some accounting.
Like any other time we have gone camping, we cooked outdoors, ate outdoors, played a few games outdoors, read outdoors, and spent some time simply relaxing in the sun – this is camping life in Canada whether one is at a textile campground or a naturist campground. The difference with camping at Green Haven was the lack of barriers which allowed new people to have connections quickly develop with the others in the campground. If any felt excluded, it was by choice, not by the intention of others in the campground. However, unlike most times we have gone camping, this time there basically was no laundry to do when we got home.