I've worn a thong at Assateague I.N.S and enjoyed it very much.  Not many people there when I was and I was the only guy (or gal) in any minimal swimsuit, let alone a thong.  But everyone greeted me with a smile, and i actually struck up a conversation with a couple of women in their 50's or so who were walking down the beach.  They didn't even mention my thong, even though they came up from behind me as I was walking!  They said Hi, then I said Hi, and we were soon talking.

In a way, I think I share the attitude your girlfriend has.  I usually don't act "in your face" about wearing thongs, but in a place like that sometimes I like to combat the attitude with a little attitude of my own.

Besides, I really enjoy being "gawked" at sometimes.

I guess I shouldn't have worn a thong at O.C. Beach, according to what you posted.  Could i have been fined or something?  I will stick to my 1/2 back suit next time.

Tell me more about the kind of suits you wear.  Do you ever wear thongs?

Tom

I visited Assateague last Friday (August 8) and spent two hours on the beach wearing a slide front g-string; I moved the slide to its minimum.  I walked about twenty minutes north of the Maryland bath house and set up my blanket just above the high water mark.  I spent half the time face down; the other half face up.  There was a couple about a hundred yards from me and the man was wearing a thong. On the walk there, I noticed a women wear a thong and as I was on my blanket, a fellow walked by wearing a g-string.

It was a relaxing experience overall.  Occasionally, a some beach walkers would go by.  Two female groups did notice me.  One was a group three middle-aged women. as they were passing by, one pointed me out to the others and the others looked on with a smile on their face; one their way back, they checked my out again.  I was trying to sleep at the time, and I did not enter into a dialogue with them.  That was a missed opportunity, but at least they too enjoyed my g-string.

Hi all......I have going to Assateague Island for many years now....and it has always been a pretty easy going place probably because there is SO MUCH beach there.  The extreme north end has always been a sort of nude beach.  It is not legal to be nude but on the weekends there is always some people that will be nude and will cover up whenever a Ranger drives by (which is usually about every 3 or 4 hours).  Only relatively small areas of the beach have lifeguards on them and that is where the crowds with children congregate.  Anywhere else, the crowds thin out.  Even on the holiday weekends, when the parking lots get filled to capacity, there seems to always be areas of uncrowded beach.  It has always been my experience that Assateague is a live and let live place....it seems that rednecks usually go to Ocean City and Dewey Beach in DE.  Last summer, I noticed at least two or three thongers on the beach every trip, and men wearing bikinis is definitely becoming more common.  It is no big deal at all for me to walk straight from the beachhouse through the crowded area down the beach wearing my Skinz Skinny Side Rio.  My wife who used to be very shy about wearing skimpy swimsuits, now enjoys her own particular European style: she loves wearing very skimpy Brazilian coverage string styles that ride so low as to show alittle flirty butt cleavage.  It seems every year the place takes on a more European beach atmosphere.  We hope this year it really takes off!!!

MDSKIMPYMAN,

                  "Two or three thongs every time you go to Assateague" you say??? Where on Assateague do you usually go to? I've only seen one other person in a thong there in the last three years, in addition to myself of course. My wife and I usually go to the unguarded South Beach Area just before the off-road area which is all the way down in the National Park section. Do you go straight in and park at the State Park section, then walk north towards Ocean City? I've never entered throught the state park before, maybe that's where everyone has been hiding all along. Please post a response so I can try your spot. There's power in numbers!!! Maybe next year they will vote in favor of making part of Assateague legally nude, we can only hope. Thanks. 

Thanks for the info.  I may just go to Assateague this summer and parade about in a G-string just because I am pissed that they shut down on the nude beach on the north part of the Island.  I was there before and remember the ranger telling me in glee about how concurrent-jurisdiction was going to allow them to crack down on nude sunbathers.  I sure hope they bring back the nude use agreement. 

Roger

Reply to : ctmonline

I did make it to Assateague both Thursday, May 20 and Friday, May 21.  Both days were cloudy and windy.  On Thursday, I was only there for about an hour.  On Friday, after passing the "nudity prohibited" sign, I took off my shorts and walked towards the northern end wearing my zebra g-string and a t-shirt.  I set up my towel on the beach at about 10:40 AM, took off my t-shirt for about an hour when a sudden chill came in and I put my shorts, t-shirt and a sweat shirt on; I left around 12:30 PM.

Today, Monday, May 24, I was on the beach again from 1:00 to 3:30 PM.  wearing a blue g-string with a sliding front.  It was a bit windy and the wind was blowing the sand around, but after trying a few spots,  I finally found one near the water that did not have too much blowing sand.  There must have been about a dozen people (at least 3 women) scattered between the "nudity" sign and the end of the beach; most were nude. 

I am sorry for missing "CTMONLINE", but Friday was not an ideal thong day.

I am not planning to be near Assateague for the remainder of the summer; I will be thonging (or going nude) on Long Island and New Jersey beaches. 

I'm glad to hear that g strings are ok at Assateague.  I haven't been there in 4 or 5 years.  Last time I went there were quite few nude people, I was nude also.  It was great, but I was warned by several that the rangers were ticketing.  I did talk to a guy there who was wearing a g string and I asked him about it.  Made perfect sense.  I have two that I bought last summer one black and one white, the white one is see through wehn wet.  So, with all that said, I am definately going to make it over sometime this summer, even if I have to take a day off from work.  I live outside Washington DC so it's about a 4 hour drive each way for me.  If I go I will definately stay all day.

Would love to meet some others.  My wife would never go and would never wear a skimpy bathing suit. Oh well, her loss!

Hope to hear from some of you.

Reply to : showtime20042005

Showtime,

         I wouldn't waste my time in the Virginia end of Assategue Island. I went there all the time when I was a kid and I never have seem a thong there. It's practically the "bible belt" in Chincoteague anyway, very conservative. There are also no bathhouses or showers there anymore due to the beach erosion. You're best bet would to drive to Ocean City and head south to Assateague State Park. Don't head south, head north on the beach, walk for about twenty minutes and you will see someone in a thong or nude. Good luck.

Reply to Fat Senior,

                I wouldn't be too worried about you're age when it comes to thonging, but I would try to use your interest in thonging to motivate you into getting into better shape and exercising, since you mentioned you were fat. I use my love of minimal/extreme swimwear to help push myself into the gym at least a few times a week. I figure that the more that I workout, the better I will look in my thong on the beach, it really helps a lot. As far as Assateague Island is concerned, I don't think anyone will care if you are overweight or older, you wouldn't believe some of the people that I've seen there. The ages range from eightteen to eighty years old, you will people in perfect shape with tanned bodies, but you will also see pale white overweight people as well. Everyone is either in a bikini, thong, or fully nude...it all depends...but no one cares!!! The people at the north end of Assateague are extremely friendly, you may meet a new friend while you're there. I learned a long time ago, the hard way, not to be overly concerned with what others think. Please note that Assateague Island State Park opens April 1st and close down Nov 1st...see you in 2005!!!

Reply to : thongjockey

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I visit o.c. every year. let me know about 2005 this summer if anyone is going thonging there. I would like to try it for the first time but I would not want to be the only one.

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I'll be there a soon as spring gets here, the sooner the better, I'm sick of the cold weather.

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Reply to : ctmonlineI'll be there a soon as spring gets here, the sooner the better, I'm sick of the cold weather.Sounds like we're all anxious for spring. I'll certainly be at Sandy Point as soon as it warms up. Since Assateague is 3 1/2 hours away, it may be awhile before I get there. I do want to try it, though. I'll look forward to early reports on thonging at these beaches. Hmmmm...wonder how warm it has to get for thonging...75 degrees?...80? Now that I'm turned on to thonging, the winter seems much longer.

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Question about Assateague:  At the north end (where both thongers and nudists tend to hang out), approximately how many people, on average, might I find there both (1) on a weekday and (2) on a weekend, in May and June?  I am presuming that the weather each time would be sunny and at least 75 degrees (for May) or 80 (for June).  I haven't been there yet but am definitely looking forward to visiting.

Let me say first that I agree with JM's response to "TJ-22" and "thonginthesun" completely, it's a roll of the dice to predict how many people, what type, or gender will be at a beach on a particular day of the week. I will say that the most people seem to be at Assateague on Friday-Sunday, common sense would tell you that, all the tourists roll in on the weekends. If you want an approximate number or description of a normal day at Assateague, you should read some of my reports from last year under the "personal experiences" column of this messageboard. If that's too time consuming, my best answer to your questions would be to expect only one or two other thongers at Assateague during the week, with probably six or eight on the weekends, only if the weather cooperates until summer gets here. Once summer gets here you can usually expect five or six other thongers during the week and I've witnessed at least forty or fifty around July 4th weekend personally. Most of the thongers at Assateague are single males, gay couples, and straight couples. Very few single women are willing to go to this section of the beach alone, some guys don't know how to act and run them off, my wife was followed up the beach while walking the beach once by a nude man who was rather exciting to put it mildly. If you guys want females to come to Assateague, someone needs to tell the sex offenders to stay at home, their scaring everyone off.

I have been going to the north end of Assateague for the last seven years and last summer seemed to really turn a corner from previous years.  In the past, up on the north end one used to see a few regular nude men on the weekends and rarely a woman....but last summer things seemed to change.  There was quite a contingent of nudists on the weekends with many nude couples and groups of couples in the nude.  I was completely surprised to see so many nude females as well as males.  However,  I am afraid that the increase in nude sunbathers caught the attention of the general public and there may have been complaints.  A few months ago, I saw a news segment on Baltimores WBAL 11:00 news talking about a general crackdown by park rangers on nudists along Assateague State Park.  The report talked about a zero tolerance policy towards this with undefined harsh penalties.  I guess it remains to be seen what is in store this summer.  In the past my wife and I have worn thongs and have had rangers drive right past us walking along the beach with no problem.  I sure hope we haven't lost a good thing....

Mdskimpyman,

         I agree with you one-hundred percent in regards to last year, it was great, on July 4th weekend there were at least fifty people at the northern end of Assateague. They wore everything from speedos to nothing at all, they ranged from 20 to 75 years old, the majority were males but there were definitley a good number of females as well.

        In regard to the news report on WBAL this winter, I read the report online and it really had me upset, what the hell were those guys thinking walking up to a ranger nude!!! We have to respect the rangers at Assateague, we all have jobs we have to do, they are no different.  I think we should give them a break, from what I've seen over the last few years the rangers at Assateague are very fair, in my opinion. In fact, some of the suits that I've worn are far beyond "legal" but they've never hassled me yet, some of these suits that I wear don't cover anything...they're completely see-through...but the rangers still just drive on by in their trucks. As long as you're not nude when they drive by, you can see them a mile away driving up the beach with their lights on, you won't have a problem. During most weekends this past summer, one of the regulars (nudists) would blow a whistle when a ranger was approaching, giving everyone notice to cover up, that was the best.

        In conclusion, my worries about Assateague have passed, I've been there twice already this spring without a problem. I've wore the skimpiest gstring that I own both times as well, a Dore Micro Gstring made out of "black fishnet" material, it has about 1/8" round black holes throughout making it completley see-through. The rangers just passed right on by each time, plus there was a topless woman in a thong just down the beach from me who would just roll over when the ranger passed as well with no hassles. I was told by a ranger a few years ago in reference to thongs; "as long as you're wearing a swimsuit, no matter how small, you will be fine"...and that was from a ranger!!! As far as the public report goes, I think the rangers were forced to respond to the nude guys that were on the news, they completely disrespected the ranger, they had to make an example out of someone. Have fun, just don't push your luck.

                                         *Hopefully this summer will be even better than last!!!*

Sail-and-Beach,

            I believe the "south beach" that you are referring to is in the National Park section of Assateague, the small parking lot on the left just before the 4WD section begins. About three or four years ago I frequented this section, that was before I knew about the "north beach" section of the State Park. In the couple years that I went to this section I only ran into one other person in a thong, an overweight female, even though thongs are legal on all of Assateague. This section is also frequented by a lot of families with small children as well, not exactly an ideal place to thong in my opinion, but you're more than welcome to give it a try. I only go to the "north beach" now, I enjoy the company of other thongers and the nudists up there, it's really laid back and just a better part of the beach to thong in my opinion...the beach goes on for miles.

Sail-and-Beach,

              I wouldn't waste my time or money at the south beach, the very open crowd at the north end of the beach where I go now really make it worth the walk, I went to the south beach a few years ago back before I knew about the north beach...now it's almost the last place I would go. I was at Assateague by myself  today, check out my report in the 'personal experiences" section...going back tomorrow with the wife joining me. See you there.

My wife and I were at Assateague yesterday and today.  The weather was not great yesterday, but today was nice.  We walked North to the end of the sand dune.  Not that many people walking the beach yesterday.  We were able to wear our thong bathing suits for the first time in public. 

Today we went to the same location.   There was a lot of people walking the beach and my wife didn't fell comfortable wearing her thong bikini.  I didn't care and wore mine. 

We might go back tomorrow before we leave the area.  It all depends on the weather.  Hopefully I can convince my wife into wearing her's.