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AMONG THE REDWOODS by Peter Nolan Smith

October 2, 2022 – 2:42 pm

The noon sun shimmered off Monterey harbor. The moored sailing boats bobbed with the light breeze and hundreds of pleasure craft wavered on the wake of a departing fishing boat. A middle-aged man took a photo of his wife before a large trawler tied up to a forlorn dock, while I walked toward Cannery Row. […]

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Buff Naked At Black’s Beach

May 9, 2012 – 7:28 pm

In the summer of 1974 I visited Black’s Beach in San Diego, which was the most popular nude beach in the United States. While nudity remains against the law in the city of San Diego, the Torrey Pines State Park has allowed ‘clothing optional’ for sun-worshippers from the Torrey Pines Gliderport north to the steel […]

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BLACK’S BEACH BLUFF by Peter Nolan Smith

May 9, 2012 – 4:03 pm

The next morning I was awoken by the drifting whiff of brewing coffee. I wiggled out of my sleeping bag to pull the bathrobe around my body. The floor of the porch was chilled my bare feet. The summer days started out cold in Southern California. The flower fields around the bungalow were obscured by […]

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