I don’t want to alarm anyone, but the world record for group skinny-dipping has been rising at a fast– some might say– alarming rate. In 2011, 400 folks stripped down to smash the previous record of 250. The annual BW Summer Festival in Gisborne, New Zealand then broke that 2 years straight. 744 Kiwis ran naked into the surf on New Year’s Eve 2013. But I’ve heard a rumor that Australia and New Zealand have kind of a rivalry between them. It certainly seemed that way on March 8th 2015 when an event in Perth promoting positive body image had 790 Aussies break that skinny-dip record. Here’s the takeaway for me: the record number tripled in the space of five years. If my calculations are correct, and they usually aren’t, the record in 30 years will be over 546,000. That’d be one hell of a long, fleshy beach.




















