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Fleurieu Peninsula: Nude beach olympics cancelled
Posted by daveb on February 4th, 2009
We’re on our way to Melbourne, it’s over seven-hundred kilometres away on the main road and we’ve chosen to travel on the longer, but hopefully more picturesque, coastal roads.
First stop, Tourist Information to find out on which day the Nude Beach Olympics at Adelaide’s Maslin beach are being held. My guidebook only says “around Australia Day” (26th January). Bad news dear readers, for the second year in a row the Nude Beach Olympics has been cancelled! When asked the reason why, the sort-of helpful Tourist Information clerk barked “Couldn’t get enough , I suppose.” As such, I’m unable to bring you any high quality journalism nor photographs from the event. We drove on an telephoned a couple of diving schools to enquire about submerging ourselves at the ex-HMAS Hobart shipwreck dive site a little further down the coast. More bad news: as a fairly inexperienced diver, I am not allowed to go to the site this early on in my career — boo, hiss!
Instead, we spend the day driving the Fleurieu Peninsula which provided some really beautiful hillscapes; an enjoyable sight in contrast with the quite flat coastal roads of [link]Western Australia and the Nullarbor. For a treat, Squiffy sanctioned the purchase of an evening meal in a quite upmarket pub before we settled into our air bed in our car boot, overlooking the ocean. I’ve always wanted a place with sea views!
PS: I would also like to publically apologise to Squiffy for ordering the vindaloo at the posh pub last night. In the future, I promise not to eat fiery curry just before imprisoning you in a confined space for the rest of the evening.
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Comment from Beno
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:22 am
Ahhh….sleeping in the car. Reminds me of Tenby. Well, kinda…
Shame about the Nude Olympics being cancelled. Although I have to admit, I didn’t think it was a good idea for Dave to enter the pole-vault competition.
Comment from Sarah B
Time: February 4, 2009, 2:19 pm
From the giddy heights of Crystal Palace to sleeping in the boot of a car. Man, proof of a global recession if ever I saw one.
When people here ask me how you are I’m going to tell them that you’re sleeping in a ‘trunk’. Hopefully they’ll give me money to send on.
(Squiffy – you have all my sympathy. Why do you think I left home when Dave was 14?!)
xxx
Comment from daveb
Time: February 5, 2009, 11:06 pm
@Beno: I was going to have a crack at the hurdles, but had a minor concern over whether I’d be able to lift my third leg high enough…
@Sarah B: Ahh, come on! Where’s your spirit of adventure?! Our car boot is *way* cleaner than the average Indian hotel room and the air bed is way more comfortable than those at a monastery and there’s sea views out of nearly every window! (I just wish that we could sit up to enjoy them…)
Comment from Sarah B
Time: February 6, 2009, 11:47 am
@ daveb: Ahh, come on. Where’s your sense of humour? :-)
Missing our chats bro. Would love to hook up sometime on Skype if you’re able. Please drop me a line on yahoo or something. All fine here but keen to get a live update (and not from Mum!) xxxxx
Comment from daveb
Time: February 6, 2009, 9:08 pm
@Sarah B: Darn! Just leaving this hostel now, in which we’ve bought an Internet card — and it’s midnight in Abu Dhabi. Will text you or something, next time we get the opportunity of Internet for a day or two.
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Comment from Stefen
Time: December 29, 2015, 6:16 am
Hey sad news to hear about the Nude beach Olympics cancelled but you have great idea for spend time in Fleurieu Peninsula. It has a so many beautiful places to visit in Fleurieu Coast part of Fleurieu Peninsula South Australia.
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