Wreck Beach

Wreck Beach

we walked on the beach from Trail 6 to Trail 3 - not easy climbing over rocks and logs - the incoming tide on one side, the steep cliffs on the other ...
and here some interestng Wikipedia information:
The earliest evidence of Indigenous peoples inhabitation dates back to 13,000 B.C. . The beach is reclaimed from the sea in a joint venture with the Canadian Army and UBC to train cadets for beach landings in WWI, hence the presence of the "instrument towers". In the Great Depression, nude bathing became popular due to high costs of swimsuits with men congregating on Siwash Rock in Stanley Park, to escape the puritanicalist oppression of local residents, they then flocked to Wreck Beach. The beach increased in popularity with hippies until the late 1960s when a police raid in 1970 yielded a dozen arrests. The Georgia Straight (Vancouverr newspaper) staged a nude-in protest with 3,000 showing up and the charges were dropped, with the police designating the area as a "no-harm, no-foul zone" until 1991 when it was officially designated a legally recognised nudist beach