National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are remaining tight-lipped over the outcome of a stakeholder meeting last week around the future of the clothes-optional beach at Tyagarah.
June 30 deadline
Tyagarah Beach will remain a clothes-optional location until at least June 30, after a concerted campaign from the local naturist community.
Residents, on the other hand, say for years the area has attracted undesirable and obscene behaviour, particularly in the lakes near the beach.
NPWS recently announced that Tyagarah would no longer be a nudist beach because it was not in keeping with the department’s policies and values.
The Echo asked NPWS what the outcome of the meeting was, and also ‘whether a clothes-optional beach closer to Byron has been considered?’
A NPWS spokesperson told The Echo, ‘The NPWS met stakeholders, including naturists, concerned locals and Council to consider current and alternative locations should the Clothes Optional Area (COA) continue into the future’.
‘Participants provided feedback and a number of options were put forward.
‘Safety and cultural values were important topics discussed.
‘NPWS will collate the information received and provide a report to Byron Shire Council as requested.No decision has been made on the status of the COA’.
The one thing about being nude is you could get skin cancer checks at the beach which would de mysterfy nudity and help all Australians check for skin cancers
In last week’s Echo was a letter, which listed the number of complaints to the police in Byron Bay re inappropriate behaviour at the Tyagarah nude beach. From memory, the numbers were around half a dozen for 2018/19, and then dwindled to ZERO complaints in the last two years. It seems to be a big fuss about nothing!
What sort of joke is this ?
“NPWS met stakeholders, ” ……were you consulted ? I wasn’t, and as part-owners we are the first to be asked.
I believe Australians own that beach , not Nudists, naturists, concerned locals or Council, and we are very interested stake-holders and I, for one, think NPWS have got a damn hide thinking they will decide what we do one our beach.
If NPWS can see damage to the environment being done, they might have an argument, but I have reasonably reliable information that Naturalists have been frequenting that area for over fifty thousand years and any damage done was NOT attributable to being caught without their togs.
Perhaps NPWS could better employ their efforts into stopping 4wd damage , fires, toxic run-off and illegal commercial fishing.
Cheers, G”)