Merry Christmas

The committee of the Bay of Plenty Sun Club wishes all members a very happy Christmas and peaceful and healthy New Year.

We hope that some of you will visit the club over the holiday period and make use of the fantastic facilities that the club has to offer.

We are expecting a number of overseas and local visitors at the club so it would be great if there were some members staying at the grounds to welcome them and make them feel at home.

Don't forget our pot luck dinner - a BBQ with salads - on 21 January. Come along to enjoy the long summer nights and good weather while it lasts.

Christmas at the Bay of Plenty Sun Club

Another Christmas feast was the order of the day at the Bay of Plenty Sun Club's annual Christmas party. One thing is for sure, you never go hungry at the BOP Sun Club!

The Christmas themed pot luck dinner this year will be remembered for 'ham'! While normally, chicken is the most popular item on the menu, this year it was ham. And the desserts - well they were to die for. However, no-one was complaining and all went into the unique 'pressie swap' well fed.

As usual, the pressie swap was a lot of fun. For the uninitiated, all the presents are placed in the centre of the room. Each person is allocated a number and in order, participants choose a present. If they like the look of another's present, they can swap it BEFORE opening their own. Sometimes, presents can change hands several times throughout the swap. This year, the pressie swap will be remembered for 'chocolates'! Those people with the highest numbers who were chocoholics were able to feed their habit well.

Don't forget BOP Sun Club's Christmas party

Only 5 days to go until the BOP Sun Club's Christmas party at the club grounds. On Saturday (17 December), happy hour will be followed by a Christmas themed pot luck dinner. Bring a dish to share and wear your favourite Christmas outfit.

Also everyone is to bring a wrapped gift to the value of no more that $5 for the BOP Sun Club's unique Christmas pressie swap. If you don't know what this means, you had better get to the club this weekend and find out. Remember - if you don't bring a pressie, you don't get a pressie!

So don't forget to come along and enjoy the fun and convivial company of the friendliest little naturist club in the country.

We'll see you there!

PS Can someone in authority have a word with the powers that be and turn on a fine weekend for us please! But even if it is wet, the clubhouse will be warm and dry and the company great.

Phoenix Shield returns to the Waikato

The only downside of the annual Phoenix Shield challenge between BOP Sun Club and Waikato Outdoor Society at Planet BOP was that the shield went back to the Waikato with the WOSarians. Never mind – you’ve heard of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’… Watch out next year WOS!

Food of the future?

At Planet BOP for the Phoenix Shield, food of the future was served up for dinner. This consisted of a different pill for each course starting with an orange pill for shrimp cocktail, with seafood sourced from Cancer and Pisces. After that, the brown pill was the main course of cold meats and Martian pies with a green pill of fresh vegetables from Venus and potatoes from Jupiter. Dessert consisted of a pink pill, subtley flavoured with moon cake (pavlova), rocket cake (chocolate log) and fruit from Saturn.
The spacemen received an extra 'little blue pill' as a rocket booster!

Spacefolk arrive at Planet BOP

With the theme of 'The Future', the recent Phoenix Shield Challenge between BOP Sun Club and Waikato Outdoor Society saw participants joining in all aspects of the event and, as we all know, naturists love to 'dress up'.

So it wasn't surprising to see a large number of spacemen and women arrive for Happy Hour suitably attired. Even a spaceship landed on the grounds and two 'aliens' disembarked.

Phoenix Shield games

With a theme of 'The Future', the games we play today on Planet Earth were not appropriate for the Phoenix Shield challenge. So Planet BOP had to come up with some more futuristic games.

The resultant games, such as Meteors (petanque), Flying saucers (Frisbee golf), Toss the alien (a game all of its own), Shooting Stars (target shooting), Black Holes (putting a table tennis ball with a golf club) etc were all played in the spirit of the shield. Another fun game was making a rocket from a whistling balloon. The balloon was carefully blown up and then let go. No way could the direction of that be determined. One even flew in through the door of a nearby campervan! Many landed in trees and one even landed on the clubhouse roof!