Ed... ISSUE 3 Click the link to read the 1st or 2nd Issues "Ed" Australian Sun and Health Number 3! Gday! Here we are at issue 3 of Australian Sun & Health! Another issue produced on time as promised. We’ve introduced a few new sections this issue. "Not quite news" a spot for items that aren’t really headline news but need to be said nonetheless. It’s a place for acknowledging our mistakes too, like the missing i’s and l’s in issues 2’s ‘Bottom Line’ and the incorrect web site specified in the geocache article. It’s also a great place to give you a sneak preview of the next issue. ‘Nudie Clubs’, reviews the many nudist clubs within Australia and ‘Product Review’, checks out some of the good and bad products we’ve tried on our nude adventures. This issue we’ve also introduced a wildlife photo competition for the kids. It will run over four issues and has some great prizes that a few of the adults might try and get hold of! These are just a few things we have introduced to make your magazine even better. In January, we returned from four weeks travelling across Australia. I say ‘across’ because we started in Sydney, travelled up to Samurai Beach, Port Stephens, then made our way down through Victoria over to South Australia and then across the beautiful Nullabor to Western Australia. On our visit to Samurai Beach we stayed in the newly designated nude camping grounds in Tomaree National Park and it made me think… why aren’t we campaigning for more nudist camping and designated nude areas in national parks and other areas. Why are we limiting ourselves by only campaigning for nude beaches?. There are many other public areas besides beaches that could be designated as nude. Then on our recent holiday we spent the night in many camping spots and national parks, from one side of Australia all the way to the other, where we didn’t see another person. This was in peak school holiday season! There was no need to put clothes on when we got up in the morning as there was not a soul in sight. Some of these places were off the beaten track but many weren’t. Australia is a massive country with thousands of hectares of national parks and unpopulated land perfect for nude area’s. Take the Royal National Park south of Sydney, it is home to a legal nude beach (Werrong), nudity is already accepted on the beach and has been for many years, so maybe it wouldn’t be that hard to get National Parks and Wildlife to allocate an area for nude camping. There are areas in the park for clothed camping so why not nude? If all we ask for is nude beaches then all we will get is nude beaches. A fight which is also proving difficult. It seems it’s all we can do to hold onto the beaches we have let alone get more. After many many years of fighting and campaigning Queensland still doesn’t have one legal nude beach. Maybe we should use the recent win at Tomaree to springboard a campaign for the introduction of more nude areas in places like national parks? It’s something to think about. Kind Regards Sarah Scriven, Editor, Australian Sun and Health

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