WHO SAW YOU LAST?

RE: WHO SAW YOU LAST?

Four days ago I was ascending a trail in the woods I have walked many times. I was clothedand encountered a young man descending the same trail, also clothed. We exchanged quick friendly greetings as we passed but there was no real contact made. Later I returned to the trail's beginning at the lake shoreand saw the same man sitting clothed looking at the water. The day was cool and the skies were a mix of sun and clouds. It was quite warm when the sun was shining but quickly cooled as soon as a clouds blocked it. The man watched as Ibegan to take off my clothes. He stood up and began to take off his own clothes. He was standing by the water wearing board shorts. I had taken off my shoes and socks and shirt and he watched me as I dropped my pants and waded into the water. I saw him quickly take his shorts off and also move into the water. As I walked out deeper I moved diagonally so Icrossed his path as he also walked diagonally as he moved deeper. We were both on opposite sides now at about mid-thigh depth when I dove in and jumped back up. He did the same and it was exhilarating for both of us. Both for the way it felt and for seeing him do the same. Then it was so peaceful and so quiet, except for our splashing. We could hear each other's breathing even though we were about 25 feet apart. We both laughed and smiled and walked toward each other. We talked of many things. Although I had been there for five days and this was my last in the area, I found out he had just spent the night at a friend's house who lived locally and was now on his way home, two hours south. He had decided to go for a swim.We kept talking but the clouds kept chilling us and we went back to the shore, dried off and put our clothes onand sat on our respective sides looking out at the beauty of the place with the water androcky cliffs descending into it on both sides. A short while later I decided to go for another dip and stood and began taking off my clothes. As I walked to the water's edge my new friend decided to join me and took off his own clothes. We both went for brief swims and then stood in the water again talking for a while. He is very lean and was shivering terribly. He kept apologizing in humorous ways for his extreme reaction to the cold air on his wet skin. We both went to our areas, dried off and put our clothes on. Now some other people showed up including a man with two dogs who stripped nude and played with them in the water in front of my new friend. There were several other men, all clothed, sitting on the sand. Then I saw my new friend stand up and take off all his clothes and begin walking very purposefully into the water! In spite of the cold. I smiled at this and decided to join him. I took off my clothes and walked out to where he was. We talked some more and I discovered he had gone skinnydipping many times before privately but had never done it with other people except for a few close friends. This was the first time he had gone swimming naked with strangers! We talked of how wonderfully freeing it feels but not much more about nudity, more about camping and hiking. But once again he was shivering very much and we got out of the water. I was dressed and putting on my shoes when he stopped by on his way out. We exchanged our good-byes and I asked him if he knew of other places to swim naked. He told me of a couple of places I had never visited and I told him a few places he didn't know about. He told me of a place near where he lives and gave me detailed directions on how to find it including times he usually goes. We said we hoped we'd run into each other there or some other place sometime. He was shivering so muchthat I thought it was perhaps not entirely from the cold. I thought maybe it wasfrom some nervousness about the public nudity. Maybe not, but this was my gut impressionat the moment. I handed him a dry towel to put over his shoulders to warm him. He smiled, thankfully rejected it and set off on his way. We didn't exchange contact information, although I wish we had. I left shortly thereafter and since I was spending the night not far from one of the places he told me about I checked it out the next day and it was a wonderful spot. Very accessible, as he described, yet also relatively private. I also went back the next day before I returned home, an additional hour and a half south from where he lives. I never ran into him but I hope to meet him again someday and continue our conversations and share our experiences. It was one of the most pleasurable unexpected nude encounters I've ever had.