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Saturday, August 24. 2024

Outdoor showers

I will not rent a beach place without some sort of outdoor shower. You do not have to be an exhibitionist to enjoy standing nude in the sun in an (enclosed) outdoor shower.


It just feels amazing.


Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:16 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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Amen bro! Can't live out there in the wilds without an outdoor shower. The best ones of course are at the beach!
#1 faculty wife on 2024-08-24 15:59 (Reply)
Just finished building an outdoor shower on our mountain property in Tennessee. Such a fun way to get all the dirt and mud off! And at the beach, it's the best to wash the sand off and watch it run through the cracks.
#2 Webutante (Link) on 2024-08-24 18:58 (Reply)
They are indeed a blessing, such an enjoyable experience - especially if you have a little acreage around you.
#3 Aggie on 2024-08-24 23:13 (Reply)
Yeah . . . and then the biting insects can swarm on you as you towel off.
#4 feeblemind on 2024-08-25 12:07 (Reply)
Grew up on the panhandle of florida, we always had a outdoor shower. Back in the early 60s we only had cold water, but in the summer it wasn't bad. Now we live in southern Alabama and had the outdoor shower put in when we built the house. Average over 300 showers outside a year, helps that we live on a wooded 1 acre
#5 eclectic on 2024-08-25 12:17 (Reply)
Back in the early 60s we only had cold water, but in the summer it wasn't bad.

During Texas summers, I find "cold" water only for indoor showers to be quite comfortable. Reminds me of the temperature of Gulf of Mexico water.
#5.1 Gringo on 2024-08-25 13:23 (Reply)
We had one at our beach house on the Connecticut shore. I always liked using it, preferring it to the one in the bathroom if the weather was warm enough. When my parents renovated the beach house in the 1990's they made sure the outdoor shower was updated with a new enclosure.
#6 DCE (Link) on 2024-08-25 14:40 (Reply)
Unenclosed cold water showers are ubiquitous in my beach community in Japan. We have serious surfers year round, out before work or after work, at all hours to catch a wave, in all weather. Wet suits, etc., need to dry outside anyway, so it is thoughtful to other family members to take care of business outside. Personally, cold outdoor showers remind me of Scout Camp days in the Adirondacks— I’m not as rugged as I used to be, and bring the sand inside now. As I’m the cleaner-upper here, no problem.
#7 Suzanne on 2024-08-25 23:07 (Reply)
Here in SC, our summer tap water is about the same as the air temperature. I much prefer our outdoor shower this time of year! Of course, being in the South means our A/C is jacked up. The outdoor shower keeps me from freezing to death when I get out of the pool or finish gardening.
#8 Cheryl (Link) on 2024-08-26 09:08 (Reply)
Look forward to adding an outdoor shower at the next house.
#8.1 JD in N AL on 2024-08-26 10:36 (Reply)
I built one behind raspberry hedges in our garden in rural SE BC just north of Eureka Montana. That whole area, the Kootenay valley, in both the US and Canada is paradise. Warm, dry, sunny, very few mosquitos.

I built the shower with a 300 foot coil of 1/2 inch black pvc tubing zip-tied to a 4x8 sheet of expanded metal. In full sun the water runs too hot to stand.
#9 Fred Z on 2024-08-26 09:23 (Reply)
All good.

I agree.

When I was a kid, we filled a bucket with holes in the bottom.
#10 Bird Dog on 2024-08-26 13:41 (Reply)

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