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Due to popular demand, the original cast of the August 9th show during the Naturist Festival has agreed to a repeat performance of The Vagina Monologues this Saturday at 8pm in the Outback at Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park. The cast consists of 6 women aged 17 to 55. They have put a lot of work into this show (planning and rehearsals started in April) and it shows in the result. Their performance is powerful. During the festival, seating was setup for 70 people. About 80 people attended and many were turned away. To ensure you have a seat, pleasecontact the office and reserve. AdmissionRead More →

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You can now tour around Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park thanks to Google’s Streetview. In May of this year, we hired Ilyse Krivel,  a Trusted Photographer for Google Business Photos, to photograph a tour of our property. The resulting tour can be found through Google Maps or by clicking on the “see inside” image that shows up on the right-hand side when you search for “Bare Oaks” in Google. You won’t see any nude people in the tour. In fact, you won’t see any people at all. Google’s rules require the photographer to avoid people as much as possible. So we picked a cold weekday inRead More →

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Dear Anonymous, Since you didn’t leave any contact information, this is the only way we can respond to your concerns. Thank you for contacting Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park. We do appreciate receiving both compliments and complaints. We are sorry that you were dissatisfied because either you or someone else in your party (you are not clear in your letter about who was affected) were not allowed to walk around clothed. As you correctly pointed out, we did have a clothing-optional area during our volleyball tournament but you also found that option to be disagreeable. You should be aware that this is an unusual compromiseRead More →

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Many of our members enjoy gardening and some have volunteered to help maintain the plants and gardens around the park. For many years, Frank did most of that work on his own. But starting last year, a number of new volunteers took over. In 2012 it was: Front garden on Kennedy Road: Marc Garden in front of the office: Ingrid Outback Gardens: Jan Beckett Circle – peace sign garden, and plants around washroom: Nancy This year, we have even more volunteers: Front garden on Kennedy Road:  Marc and Suzy Garden in front of the office: Steven and Ingrid Planters at the clubhouse: Dale Helios Circle gardenRead More →

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As many already know, Larry “Gummy” Rafferty passed away on May 18th after many years of bravely fighting a variety of cancers. He worked with dedication and passion to maintain both Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park and its predecessor, The New Forest Family Naturist Resort. He was also one its best ambassadors. At his request, no obituary was published. However a “Celebration of Inspirational Memories”has been organized by his wife Sylvia: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 759 Pine Grove Avenue Innisfil, Ontario 1 – 4 PMRead More →

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Last fall a coin was minted to commemorate the 40th anniversary (1972-2012) of the founding of the Toronto Helios Society that eventually became Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park. The coin is officially called the Bare Oaks Sestertius. One side features Bare Oaks’ Nude Family Emblem while the other side displays the International Naturist Federation (INF) logo. The INF, which was founded in 1953, is the umbrella organization bringing together the various national naturist federations throughout the world. It is celebrating its 60th anniversary on the site where it was created – the CHM Montalivet in France. We will be giving the coin away as gifts, rewards orRead More →

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We’ve grown tremendously over the last 6 years and that has put a strain on our infrastructure. Last summer, we had over 2,200 visits by non-members. So as an example, a busy weekend now means hundreds of showers in the morning which has led water outages. So this year we’re doing a number of projects to increase our capacity. The image above is a crane installing a 16-ton concrete water cistern. It is one of two. When they are both activated in a few weeks, that will give us a total 45,400 litres of water holding capacity. We are also doing other projects related to variousRead More →

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Helen & Doug Beckett in the late 1960’s at Glen Echo Family Nudist Park. Today, Doug Beckett would have been 90 years old. Sadly, he passed away last November 17th. While people often mark someone’s passing, it seems more fitting to celebrate their birth because it is a person’s arrival and ensuing existence in our world and that influences us most. So today we honour him by republishing below one of his articles from 1969. Doug and Helen Beckett were a active members and supporters of the Toronto Gymnosophical Society at Glen Echo Family Nudist Park (1955-2009). It was there that, with a small groupRead More →

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An interesting message we received: From: john oswald [crowdpass@6q.com] Date: May 27, 2013 8:35:26 PM EDT Subject: a special event on June 27th (one month from now) Hello, I’m contacting various naturist communities in and near Toronto, in hopes that many of your members and participants will be especially interested in an event that will happen in downtown Toronto on the evening of Thursday June 27th. I’m an artist (and have received some recognition as such, being a Governor General’s Laureate, etc.) who on occasion puts together performances involving large groups of people. The event shown below, at the historic Carlu event space, involved overRead More →

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Free Bare Oaks baseball cap for each player registered by June 1st. (That’s this Saturday) This year there is a $500 Cash Prize for the top 6×6 team!  And lots of other prizes for everyone else. Bring your own team and the organizer plays free! 7th Annual Greater Toronto Naturist Volleyball Tournaments (June 28 – July 1) Lee Baxandall Memorial Volleyball Tournament (Aug. 16 – 18) www.BareOaks.ca/volleyballRead More →