On Sunday, the Algarve Naturist Club (CNA) collected some 320 kilos of rubbish from the beach at Praia do Barril in Tavira, one of the official areas for the practice of naturism in the Algarve. The material collected during the cleaning campaign, which brought together a number of fans of naturism on the beach, included glass bottles, drink cans, clothes, fluorescent tubes, fishing equipment, oil drums and “lots of toilet paper”, according to Álvaro Campos, president of the CNA.

As the day of the city of Tavira was taking place on the same day, Macário Correia did not join the naturists this year, but provided gloves and plastic bags from the municipality for the campaign.

Nonetheless, the naturists continued to point the finger at the municipal leader for not carrying out his promise.

The CNA president said that they regretted the fact that the naturist area still has no containers for putting rubbish, adding that this had been promised by the president of the council last year, but that nothing had changed.

Macário Correia told the Algarve Observer that the rubbish bins would be placed there next week and said that the only reason that this had not already been done was that the bathing season was only beginning now.

The local leader said that they were not going to put containers in places where there was no one on the beach; he said he could count on the fingers of two hands the number of people who had been there this year.

Meanwhile, Álvaro Campos is working on the fourth anniversary of the founding of CNA, which will have a meeting of naturists on the Praia das Furnas in Vila do Bispo as a backdrop; this is one of the areas that the Algarve club wants to see recognised as “official”.

The gathering will take place on 14th July starting at 11 am, culminating in a dinner in Vila do Bispo from 8 pm. Invited guests include the president of the local authority, Gilberto Viegas, and the president of the Algarve Tourism Board (RTA) António Pina.

There are two official areas in the Algarve for the practice of naturism (Barril in Tavira and Adegas in Aljezur), but there are many beaches where the practice is tolerated where naturists can co-habit peacefully with other bathers, whom they like to refer to as “textiles”.

source:Algarve Observer