Anonymous said:

I... guess. There will always be exceptions. We are exceptions. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> In the case of San Onofre, the nude surfers are just the nudists among the local surfers. What my German friend has seen, and it seems to carry into Mexico as well, is that the first wave of "discovery" of an area for tourism and then vacation homes and then luxury retirement homes is the arrival of "safari surfers". Or, in the 1970s - the arrival of the hippies. The locals may or may not be offended, but they're so off the beaten path that laws do not apply as strongly as the lure of a more-than-subsistence income by selling food/meals/liquor/pot to the weird visitors. Vendors set up shop, campsites appear, then bed-and-breakfasts develop, then voilà(!) - a destination resort. And then Norman Luftman appears...

~Reggie~