Playa de los Naufragios

Wreck Beach ( en squamish : Tsʼatʼlhm ) es una playa nudista ubicada en el Parque Regional Pacific Spirit , parte del Área Electoral A, justo al oeste de Vancouver, Columbia Británica , Canadá. ^{[ 1 ]} La sección nudista está claramente señalizada y se extiende aproximadamente 6,7 kilómetros o 4,2 millas desde Acadia Beach, en el norte, hasta Booming Grounds Creek en el brazo norte del río Fraser . El parque es administrado por Metro Vancouver , aunque se afirman repetidamente reclamos indígenas, particularmente por la Nación Musqueam .

La evidencia más antigua de la ocupación de pueblos indígenas data del 13.000 a. C., siendo el lugar de caza, pesca, tala y conexión espiritual de los Musqueam , conocido como "Ulksen" o "la nariz". ^{[ 2 ]} La playa fue ganada al mar en una empresa conjunta con el Ejército canadiense y la UBC para entrenar cadetes para desembarcos en la playa durante la Primera Guerra Mundial , de ahí la presencia de las " torres de instrumentos ".

During the Great Depression, nude bathing became popular due to high costs of swimsuits with men congregating on Siwash Rock in Stanley Park, to escape the puritanicalist oppression of local residents, a legacy of the Victorian era, they then flocked to Wreck Beach. The beach increased in popularity with hippies until the late 1960s when a police raid in 1970 yielded a dozen arrests. The Georgia Straight staged a nude-in protest^[3] with 3,000 showing up and the charges were dropped, with the police designating the area as a "no-harm, no-foul zone" until 1991 when it was officially designated a legally recognised nudist beach.^[4]

On January 25, 1977, the Citizens Concerned for Coward's Cove was formally established, then changed to Wreck Beach Committee, then to the Wreck Beach Preservation Society in 1983. The WBPS has fought against these developments: a 20-million cubic meter dredging operation behind the North Arm breakwater; a parallel trail from Trail 6 to Trail 7 (One already built there quietly by two unknowns); a proposal to barge millions of gallons of "jet-fuel A" past Wreck Beach weekly; toe-to-cliff-top condominiums (proposed in 2004);^[5] a 20-foot high, 10-foot wide sea wall over the beach it would supposedly have been meant to protect; viewing platforms which would have changed the interpretation of the Canadian Criminal Code insofar as nudity was concerned; the cutting of 40-acres of cliff face forest and then, the shaving of the cliffs in those 40-acres, and the construction of an RCMPservice road to and along the beach. Current threats to the beach area include a restaurant overlooking the beach, the elimination of all curb-side parking, the grassing in of Marine Drive, and possible washrooms on the beach level instead of above and out of sight of the beach.^[6] In 2012, permanent toilet outhouses were installed.^[7]

Panorama of Wreck Beach

• Clothes free organizations
• List of public outdoor clothes free places

• Carellin Brooks, Wreck Beach (libro), número 16 de la serie Transmontanus de New Star Books , Vancouver, Columbia Británica, Canadá; www.NewStarBooks.com. Publicado en agosto de 2007. ISBN 978-1-55420-031-3; ISSN 1200-3336 Número 16. 

• Parque Regional Espíritu del Pacífico
• Sociedad para la Preservación de Wreck Beach
• Playa del Naufragio – Mapa de la playa nudista

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