The world according to me....

Sometimes, there is nothing better than going swimming au naturel in the ocean. In Brazil, propitious circumstances led me to often go swimming nude at night on a deserted section of the beach. I had to go anyway to release emergent turtles collected from nests in the hatchery. After watching the hatchlings scramble across the sand into the sea, I would peel off my clothes and go for a quick swim under the starlight. But even the most deserted beach may not be so private. When I worked on an isolated beach in Suriname, I would always wear my swimsuit for my daily swim/bath (there was no running water). But after several months of modesty, I decided one day to forgo the swimsuit and bathe in the ocean completely naked. Of course, that was the day that the head of the Nature Conservation Division of the government of Suriname decided to pay a visit. He and his aides caught me off guard (and without trunks) in the middle of my swim. His only reference to the matter was a reminder that there were many rays along the coast and one should be careful to avoid being stung by one. I always used my trunks after that, and trod extremely lightly in the water.