5.a: Video #5: the nude beach
After another week where Sir had only inspected me, I was blazing with horny frustration. On Monday, when I scanned that week's code, I was hoping the next video would involve something,
anything
, to take the edge off.
"GET SATURDAY OFF WORK. SCAN AGAIN FOR INSTRUCTIONS AFTER 9 AM SATURDAY."
Well, that's an inconvenience! Does Sir expect me to re-arrange my life around his...
The thought broke off in my head.
Yeah, I guess he does. I guess I asked him to.
It involved a bit of wrangling, but I managed to get Saturday off without having to fake a sick day. It involved using up some lieu time I had banked and a couple minor lies to a co-worker.
I wouldn't normally have been up so early by choice on a Saturday, but between the horniness keeping me awake and curiosity over what I'd be doing, I was up and ready to scan the code right at nine, cup of coffee in hand.
"YOU ARE GOING TO WEST POINT BEACH. TAKE A TOWEL BUT DON'T BRING A SWIMSUIT. DO NOT BRING YOUR BIKE.
"QR CODE WITH FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS ON POST WHERE PATH SPLITS HEADING TO THE BEACH."
West Point! I knew about it, of course - the city's notorious nude beach. But of course I'd never been there. I guess now it was going to happen.
At least it's a place where people expect you to be naked
. But I'd still be flaunting my chastity cage in public.
The beach was on a small island off downtown, so it was a bit of a trek to get there, including a short ferry trip. Although it was the start of October, it still felt like a late summer day, so there was a healthy crowd heading across. I figured most of the people were just going to the big park on the island, but I still looked everyone over and wondered what they would look like on the nude beach.
When we docked at the island, about two-thirds of the crowd took the path to the main part of the park, the rest going to the more distant stretches that included West Point. Although it was a sizable crowd when we got off the ferry, the island felt pretty empty once the crowd started dispersing, especially compared to how crowded it could be on a full-on summer weekend.
After about a five-minute walk, I reached the spot where the path to the nude beach split off, and I saw the signpost the text had mentioned. There was a plastic sign zip-tied to it that read BEACH HOUSE CLOSED FOR SEASON. Strolling past it, I saw the QR code on the side of the post, but instead of stopping I veered off the path and went and sat down at a nearby picnic table, setting down the duffel bag with all of my supplies with a clunk.
From being in the park before I knew that most of the foot traffic came in waves with each ferry load and then would be quieter. I wasn't sure what my instruction were going to be, but I decided to wait a few minutes to let any stragglers from my ferry get past me first.
I checked my phone, then leaned back and tried to appreciate nature for a couple minutes. In any event, it was nice to be out here - I didn't come to the island often enough. It felt like this would maybe be the last nice weekend to go to the beach. I felt a pleasant sense of calm.
I was about to go and scan the code when I heard voices approaching, so I stayed put. Four men came down the path - obviously they weren't rushing to get over here from the ferry. They were all middle-aged, possibly two couples, though that wasn't totally clear. They were clearly in a boisterous mood, having a loud debate about some TV show or other as they walked past me. One of them looked over at me as they walked by.
"We're going to the beach!" he said. "You should come join us!"
I felt something like a flush of embarrassment.
Was I being picked up? Or was that just a friendly invitation to hang out... at the nude beach. In the nude
.
"I... might be down later," I said as they moved past me. I wondered to myself if something... interesting could have happened even if I didn't have a mission here. Then I laughed at myself for using the word "mission" to describe my purpose.
In any case, I waited a few minutes for them to get along, and then I figured I better get moving before I'd have to start worrying about the next ferryload of people. So I went over and scanned the QR code.
"GET UNDRESSED HERE. PUT CLOTHES IN BAG. WALK TO THE BEACH. GO TO THE FAR END PAST THE THIRD LIFEGUARD TOWER
"PICK A SPOT NO MORE THAN 20 FEET FROM SOMEONE ELSE. PUT OUT YOUR TOWEL.
"LAY ON YOUR BACK AND GET SOME SUN FOR AT LEAST 20 MINS. INSTRUCTIONS FOR VIDEO WILL FOLLOW."
So... all of this, and that's all before getting to my assignment?
I was used to getting undressed on command by now, so I felt okay even as I realized wasn't in the designated nude beach area. Even as I was pulling my pants off I could have just been someone eager to get down to my swimming trunks, not some guy getting undressed in a public park.
Well, it's not like I haven't been nude in a park already!
But this felt different... anyone could come down the path at any second. Having already stuffed my shoes in my duffel bag first, I proceeded to pack in the rest of my clothing... and with one last look around me, slipped off my underwear. I quickly held my camera at arm's length and snapped a picture, sending it off before I started walking down the path.
I had never been this way before, so I was surprised that it was a bit more of a hike than I expected. The path led into a thickly-wooded area (
heh heh... thick wood
) which I guess was to protect prudish eyes from naked bodies. And then, after a couple minutes, I came up to a sign just before a sharp bend in the path.
WARNING! THERE MAY BE NUDE BEACH USERS BEYOND THIS POINT.
I looked down at myself. Then I stepped past the sign, feeling legit yet still somehow exposed.
The beach area was quite large, and it wasn't too busy. The first zone on entry here had a few people, mostly couples on blankets closer to the water by a lifeguard tower. It was unattended this late after the regular season, with signs telling beach users that they were here at their own risk. Looking off in the distance for the further lifeguard towers, I strolled along the boardwalk that roughly divided the sandy beach from the wooded buffer zone.
After a couple minutes I was walking past the second of the towers. This part of the beach was pretty much empty, but I could see more people further along. As I came up to the third tower, I realized that all the beach users here were men. By some informal agreement, this must be accepted as the gay part of the beach.
For the first time since I undressed I had that sensation of eyes on my body, and indeed, a few guys nearby not-so-subtly turned their heads to check me out as walked by. I felt a bit of a flush as I walked down past the lifeguard tower. Then, without trying to look too obvious, I tried to triangulate a spot that was as far away from everyone else as possible while still following my instructions. By using the lifeguard tower as a blind of sorts, I picked a spot that was diagonal from a couple other towels. Out of the corner of my eye I recognized the quartet who had passed me heading into the beach.
Feigning a calm I didn't feel, I spread out my towel and lay down on it, as if I were just someone stretching to get some sun. It was warm, though it lacked the harsh edge of summer sun which let me hope I wasn't going to get a sunburn in some inconvenient spot.
I closed my eyes and rested. Listened to the waves and the wind and I must have drifted off, for the next thing I heard was someone clearing their throat.