Beach Bums - Part 47

Maslin Beach, Adelaide, Australia

This is Robin Rhodes Milhouse (1929-2017).  After serving in Parliament in Australia, he was appointed in 1982 as a justice in the Supreme Court of South Australia, where he served for 17 years.  Then he served as Chief Justice in the highest court in the Pacific nations of Kiribati and Nauru.  Above, Milhouse at Maslin Beach.

Milhouse was an athlete and a nudist, and in 1975 he championed the creation of Australia's first official nude beach, Maslin Beach, while he was serving in Parliament.

Maslin Beach is located in a suburb of the city of Adelaide, South Australia.  The beach is 2.9 km (1.8 miles) long, and the southern half is an official nude beach.

The beach is noted for the Maslin Beach Nude Games, held annually in January, which is summertime in Australia.   Above, the men's Best Bum competition.

The event had been called the Maslin Beach Nude Olympics since it started in 1983, but it was forced to change its name in 2013 when the Australian Olympic Committee complained that people might confuse it with the real Olympics.

Confusion with the real Olympics seems unlikely to me, since the Maslin event featured naked competitions such as Best Bum, plus a naked sack race (above) ...

a naked donut-eating competition with hands held behind the competitors' backs ...

a naked Frisbee throwing competition ...

and a naked fill-the-bucket competition, where contestants had to fill a bucket by repeatedly running to the ocean (above) to fill a little plastic pail with seawater ...

and then run back to dump the water in the bucket.  The catch: the plastic pails had holes in them.

We end with this view of the winners of one of the competitions.  Maybe Best Bum?  The blue-ribbon winner is indeed very nice.

But in these Nude Games, everyone, competitors and spectators, is a winner.