A Weekend at Black Sand Beach

Over a great many years of discussing nudism with friends, acquaintances and customers, I've never heard anyone call that very famous southern Cali bare beach 'Black Sand'. My nudist experience of the social kind began in earnest an another Cali beach named for something involving the light spectrum. It's up north of San Fran, a place referred to as Red Rocks, named for the noticeably-amber tone of the rocky cliffs up above the parking area. Along with the bare set - out there to get their skin darkened by the less-than-trustworthy sunlight in that region, and maybe play in the sand and surf - there always seemed to be a few active rock climbers applying their craft to the sea stacks located just before the nude pocket beach is reached. Hmm, that makes me want to try naked rock climbing someday!

That put aside, I've often wondered why that sand - what I've always heard referred to as 'Black's Beach' - was called that, the assumption being that maybe there was some dude named Black who first dropped his drawers there, or that it was a beach more difficult to reach due to the infamously treacherous climb down to it, and thus less-desirable to the white folks during our nation's sad years of segregation, so the sand there was left for the people with more melanin. Or maybe this Black Sand Beach is a completely different place?

Names get shortened and changed over many years of usage, but call me surprised if this is simply a nude beach named for the color of its sand.

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There is no black sand at Blacks Beach. (If there was, it would be due to an oil-spill.) It's not Hawaii, after all: i.e. volcanic soil. Black's Beach was named for the Black family who had a horse ranch overlooking the beach. They sold the land, and then it was subdivided into La Jolla Farms lots. The Farms' residents retained the Black family's private road to the beach.

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