From The Montreal Gazette
VANCOUVER — Vancouver residents looking to beat the heat can shed their clothes and make history at the same time.
On Saturday, hundreds of people are set to get naked at Vancouver’s Wreck Beach for the second annual Guinness Book of World Record’s simultaneous North American Skinnydip.
“Body acceptance is the idea,” said Judy Williams, chairwoman of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society.
“We want to introduce people who have never been naked (in public) to the joys of being free to be themselves.”
Williams has a message for the “looky-loos” who go to the beach to gawk at naked sun-seekers while remaining fully dressed themselves: Why not strip and participate?
“It’s a hell of a lot more fun to be naked than sweltering and cooking in your too-tight bathing suit,” she said.
Last year, 13,674 skinny dippers set a world record in 139 locations across North America.
Wreck Beach, located at the bottom of a cliff on the University of B.C. campus, drew 489 nudists — the most in Canada and third most on the continent.
Considering the “zoo” the beach has been since Tuesday when temperatures in Vancouver soared to summer highs, Williams is hopeful the number of local nudists ready to take the plunge this year will out-throng the nudists of Gunnison Beach in New Jersey and Haulover Beach in Miami
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