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2017 Big Nude Boat
Feb. 5-14 Bare Necessities
Caribbean cruise
TreeSpirit’s Jack played with fun-loving clothing-optional cruisers, the friendliest, most playful (and least uptight) people you’ll ever meet. From all walks of life, they came aboard the Carnival Pride cruise ship to enjoy a trip to the Caribbean, including this stop at “Half Moon Cay,” where they could, in the balmy 80° F climate, create “How Green Is My Island,” a series of 3 new TreeSpirit photographs (at RIGHT and BELOW).
PURCHASE Fine Art Prints of “How Green Is My Island” 1, 2 & 3 by clicking on 3 gallery links below:
• “How Green Is My Island 1”
• “How Green Is My Island 2”
• “How Green Is My Island 3”
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READ: What IS a nude, or “clothing-optional” cruise?
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Hi, Jack, I was very happy to get your voicemail last night. This cruise was the first nude cruise [Bare Necessities clothing-optional cruise in the Caribbean – Ed.] I have ever done and to be part of your photo [“How Green Is My Island”] was such an honor! Thank you very much for letting me be a part of such a wonderful project.
It was definitely a great experience!
– Diane C., March 2017
If the unique adventure above appeals, the Bare Necessities 2018 “Big Nude Boat,” Feb 2-12, 2018, is now booking. LEARN MORE.
“Naturist Trail” (CLICK FOR MORE INFO)
2015 – TreeSpirit traveled to the Caribbean February 12-21, aboard the “Big Nude Boat – Part Deux,” a special clothing-optional charter by the free-spirited clothing-optional cruise professionals at Bare Necessities Tour & Travel.
A large, tree and fun loving group gathered to make two tropical TreeSpirit photographs — including “Naturist Trail” at left — during a clothing-optional cruise. This means swim suits aren’t required for the warm Caribbean waters, for sunbathing, and ship hot tubs, swimming pools, lounge chairs, etc.
READ ALL ABOUT IT! – CLICK HERE.
2014 – “Evolution” on a Caribbean cruise
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Over 140 fun-loving passengers gathered together on Monday, February 10th, 2014, to rise from the sea, inexorably drawn by the glorious trees of this island in The Bahamas to create the largest-ever tropical TreeSpirit photograph.
TreeSpirit visited Caribbean island destinations aboard the “Big Nude Boat – Part One,” on Holland America’s, The Nieuw Amsterdam, on a week-long clothing-optional cruise created by Bare Necessities Tour & Travel.
All print sales support TreeSpirit’s mission & future projects.
Hi Jack, Just wanted to let you know that we received “Evolution” print today, and it’s so magnificent, I’m blown away! I am so, so glad we decided to get this, and in this size [6 foot – Ed.], I can’t wait to get it up on the wall!! Thanks so much! – Rolf Holbach, Arroyo del Sol Bed & Breakfast, Altadena, CA
Fiji (& Vanuatu & New Caledonia) cruise, June 2014
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A 2-week cruise to the island nations of Fiji, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia was so chock-full of adventures, it earned its own page, HERE.
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See an album of travel photographs from this trip to 3 island nations, HERE.
These three island nations are comprised of literally hundreds of islands, many uninhabited, dots over thousands of square miles of the South Pacific. It’s far too much, so beautiful, and too varied to be seen, let alone captured, by anyone in just two (or ten) weeks…
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• SEE 2nd, more intimate TreeSpirit photo, “Amedeean,” made on Amedee Island, HERE.
• SEE an album of trip/travel photos, HERE.
Jack talks to the “Evolution-ists” before the shoot. (CLICK TO ENLARGE.)
“Naturists” is a term evolved over the years to blend the ideals of nudism in a social setting with a greater appreciation of man’s integral place in nature – which makes for a natural collaboration for TreeSpirit Project photographs!
Jack shows the group what he has in mind for the photo. (CLICK TO ENLARGE)
Production photographs courtesy Michael J. Cooney, The Naturist Society.
Project founder and photographer Jack Gescheidt was thrilled to join all these fellow nature lovers and share TreeSpirit’s photography, mission, and the TreeSpirit experience with a diverse, international cruise ship audience. This big, participatory artwork in nature was created on little Half Moon Cay, in the Bahamas.
Learn more about this and other upcoming Bare Necessities Tour & Travel cruises HERE.
All print sales support TreeSpirit’s mission & future projects.
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• See Jack’s gallery of TreeSpirit photographs made over the last decade, HERE.
TV INTERVIEW with JACK on nude cruising: Australia’s “Weekend Sunrise” Co-hosts Monique Wright & Andrew O’Keefe. (Mouse over image below, click arrow at bottom left.)