{"id":5543,"date":"2012-05-07T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:37:53","slug":"if-you-see-a-nude-beach-in-california-etiquette-guidebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/if-you-see-a-nude-beach-in-california-etiquette-guidebook\/","title":{"rendered":"If You See a Nude Beach in California &#8211; Etiquette Guidebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/nudbch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is a clothing optional beach on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california\/regions-central-coast.html\">Central California Coast<\/a>. It&#8217;s not an official nude beach, so we&#8217;re following the book of etiquette by not disclosing its location.<\/p>\n<p>You really shouldn&#8217;t lose any sleep over the topic of nude beaches in California. There are a mere handful remaining along the 1,000 miles of coastline. On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california\/regions-north-coast.html\">north California coast<\/a> which is less regulated, it&#8217;s usually just too darned cold to NOT wear clothes.\u00a0 But should you encounter one of these clothing optional beaches, hopefully you&#8217;ll be a little more savvy than this writer who didn&#8217;t know a thing about them when stumbling upon one with my mom. We broke nearly every rule in the nude beach etiquette book.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No gawking! This rule was written by a nude beach-goer who is bugged by stares. It takes most of us a while to determine if the people are wearing clothes as we approach from a distance.<\/li>\n<li>No photos. What&#8217;s the first reaction when you see a nude beach? Take a picture!<\/li>\n<li>No complaining. These people say they&#8217;re minding their own business and you should too.<\/li>\n<li>No reporting. Don&#8217;t get on the phone and call the police. Chances are they know about it already and are busy solving a murder or something big.<\/li>\n<li>No misbehaving if you join in. Nude beaches are self-regulating. If there&#8217;s illicit activity it&#8217;s probably not a nude beach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is a clothing optional beach on the Central California Coast. It&#8217;s not an official nude beach, so we&#8217;re following the book of etiquette by not disclosing its location. You really shouldn&#8217;t lose any sleep over the topic of nude beaches in California. There are a mere handful remaining along the 1,000 miles of coastline. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}