Nudists’ look out on beach

Jane Emerick
A NUDISTS’ lobby group has called on its members to flush out illegal activity at Torquay’s Point Impossible amid calls to axe the beach’s clothing-optional status.
Free Beaches Australia president Anita Grigg said instead of removing the beach’s status, nudists should be policing it for illegal activity in sand dunes adjacent to the beach.
“I think that it would be better to check the beaches and encourage the people to use the beach for non-sexual activities like picnics,” Ms Grigg said.
“If they see sexual activity they should report it to the police.”
Ms Grigg’s comments come as a Torquay Sands golf course employee detailed regular activity at the clothing optional beach adjacent to the course.
Course superintendent Nathan Bennett said about 25 to 30 cars would use the carpark but no-one would be on the beach.
“It’s mostly single men and they often just sit in their car and wait,” Mr Bennett said.
“I don’t know what they’re waiting for. None of them go straight to the beach.
“First they wait, then they just walk all over the native vegetation in the dunes.”
Mr Bennett said he believed they headed to the dunes for sex.
“It’s a shame because it’s a really beautiful beach,” he said.
“I’ve got nothing against nudists, it’s just the other stuff that goes on there.”
The clothing-optional beach has come under fire after Surf Coast councillor Ron Humphrey said people were illegally entering the dunes for sex.
He has called for removal of the beach’s clothing optional status.
But a Queensland nudist resort owner who frequented Point Impossible for 14 years said nudists needed to stamp out illegal activity in the dunes.
Tony Fox said nudists needed to report illegal activity when they see it.
“We have to accept that there are perverts,” he said.
“People can say it doesn’t happen, well it bloody does happen and it happens at nude beaches all over the world,” he said.
“If nudists come together and police it, then people like Ron Humphrey won’t have any ammunition to close the area.”
A panel to discuss the future of Point Impossible beach’s clothing-optional status will meet on January 22.