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Well I sometimes do and have. Just depends on who is present. I raised my children going to naturist beaches and that it was ok to practice naturism in appropriate places and at appropriate times. Sadly, none of my children have continued the lifestyle to my knowledge but are fine with it when visiting me, even one of their partners and their children(my grandchildren) skinny dip here.
In our neighborhood its difficult to enjoy the outdoors in our back naked as our neighbors do not approve of the life style. We will venture out back when the sun goes down though. We both enjoy being nude when practical around home. Weather has been quite ordinary in Sydney the last week or so and its been cool. When the weather warms up a little we will be traveling north to Birdie beach and then to Samurai beach and we will spend our time at these places naked soaking up the sun for our holiday's.
Stationhand wrote:IWe will venture out back when the sun goes down though.
I assume you mean "outback" in the conventional sense rather than the Australian sense. I hope you don't have to travel too far!
Which reminds me. Wasn't "sundowner" an Australian reference to migrant laborers once upon a time?
Stationhand wrote:IWe will venture out back when the sun goes down though.I assume you mean "outback" in the conventional sense rather than the Australian sense. I hope you don't have to travel too far!Which reminds me. Wasn't "sundowner" an Australian reference to migrant laborers once upon a time?
Woodsman21 I mean in a conventional sense, back yard. In the 1960's there was a movie made called the Sundowners, staring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum. To me this movie best describes what a Sundowner represents.
"Which reminds me. Wasn't "sundowner" an Australian reference to migrant laborers once upon a time?"
During the Great Depression ( which did not hit as hard as in the USA, but did hit), unemployed men took a roll-up bed (a swag) and went walking from farm to farm offering their labour in return for a meal and perhaps some hospitality. Hence 'swagmen'. Sundowners did the same but timed their arrival to be too late in the day to do any meaningful work, and so were looked down upon.
The other kind of Sundowner was Ford Australia's response to the Holden Sandman, but that's a different story.
My wife and I have been travelling around Australia for over four years most often because of the vast distance between outback town I drive, camp nude. Like swagmen of old we are moving around looking for harvest work
During the Great Depression ( which did not hit as hard as in the USA, but did hit), unemployed men took a roll-up bed (a swag) and went walking from farm to farm offering their labour in return for a meal and perhaps some hospitality. Hence 'swagmen'.
I think youll find that the term swagman predates the Great Depression by quite a few decades. Can you imagine Troopers in the 1930s? We also had a severe depression in the 1890s that lasted longer.
During the Great Depression ( which did not hit as hard as in the USA, but did hit), unemployed men took a roll-up bed (a swag) and went walking from farm to farm offering their labour in return for a meal and perhaps some hospitality. Hence 'swagmen'.
I think youll find that the term swagman predates the Great Depression by quite a few decades. Can you imagine Troopers in the 1930s? We also had a severe depression in the 1890s that lasted longer.
"I think youll find that the term swagman predates the Great Depression by quite a few decades. Can you imagine Troopers in the 1930s? We also had a severe depression in the 1890s that lasted longer."
Good to know. I haven't delved fully into the history but certainly there are pointers to earlier swagmen. ("Waltzing Matilda", anyone?) My Dad (born 1930) did recall seeing them as a kid, though, in suburban Melbourne.
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