Skinny Dip Day 2026 goes swimmingly
Team Planet Nude took first place, and the fundraiser had its biggest year yet—plus photos of dips from all around the world.
Last year Team Planet Nude came in second place by just $243. This year we came in first.
Team Planet Nude raised $3,495 for the Fistula Foundation, our best year ever and enough to fund five complete surgeries with a good start on a sixth. Thirty of you gave. That’s thirty people who decided a woman they’ll never meet deserved her life back, and then did something about it. In total over three years participating, Team Planet Nude has raised over $9,000 for these surgeries! Wow!
(You may have noticed, we finished just $5 short of our $3,500 goal this year, which is the kind of thing that will nag at me for a year. Our page is still open if anyone is willing to donate a couple bucks and close that gap.)
But Team Planet Nude this year was but a very small part of what has become a growing global movement. Below we have a bunch more details and numbers from this year’s Skinny Dip Day, covering our global impact and participation. And at the end of this post we have a photo gallery of dozens of participating teams and individuals from all around the world. Many of you sent in photos from your dips, from beaches and rivers and backyard pools all over the world, and the whole gallery is waiting at the bottom of this post.
The bigger picture
This year Skinny Dip Day as a whole raised over $18,000, blowing past its $15,000 goal, with 263 supporters across thirty-two teams. That’s roughly twenty-eight surgeries funded in a single season.
Congratulations to Gunnison Beach, who finished second with $2,200 and forty-three supporters. They beat us last year and they pushed us this year. Special shout-out to Oaklake Trails for third place and Glen Eden for fourth, and honorable mention to Avalon West Virgina—all three first-year teams showing up as powerhouses for this fundraiser. Longtime team Indiana Naturists also had their best year yet, raising $1,000. Black Naturists Association members hosted dips in nine different locations all around the U.S. and even as far as Portugal! All of this contributed to the best turnout year of all time for SkinnyDipDay.org. That kind of energy and commitment says everything about the movement we’re all building together. That’s what it’s about!
The initiative has now raised more than $61,000 for the Fistula Foundation over its history, funding almost a hundred surgeries. Every dollar of that goes to curing women of obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that causes chronic incontinence and profound isolation. One surgery costs $624 and gives a woman back her health, her dignity, and her place among other people.
Thomas Francine built this thing, and it keeps growing. Thank you, Tom.
Skinny dipping is a team sport
Of course, this was never really about competition, but rather teamwork. All of the teams that participated made this happen and deserve serious recognition for their altruism. Here are the teams that made up this year’s lineup, with links to their fundraisers if you want to support them too:
UNITED STATES
California: Black’s Beach
California: Glen Eden Sun Club
California: Laguna del Sol
California: Lupin Lodge
California: San Francisco
California: So Cal Naturist Assoc.
Illinois: Blue Lake Resort
Indiana: Indiana Naturists
Michigan: Keweenaw Naturist
Michigan: Naked Adventure Club of Detroit (at Forest Hills Club AND Turtle Lake Resort)
Western Michigan: Paradise Pond
Minnesota: Oakwood Club
Missouri: Forty Acre Club
Nevada: Planet Nude / Las Vegas Bares
New Jersey: Gunnison Beach
New York: Cherry Grove
Oklahoma: Oaklake Trails
Oregon: The Willamettans
Pennsylvania: White Thorn Lodge
South Carolina: Travelites Retreat
Tennessee: Edun Hill Campground
Tennessee: TN’s Assoc. Naturists Network
Wisconsin: Apple River
Multi-Location Team: Black Naturists Association (CA, FL, IN, NJ, OH, MO, TN, TX; Portugal)
GLOBAL
Canada: Ponderosa Nature Resort
Caribbean: Caribbean Naturism
Costa Rica: Nudtopía
Portugal: Black Naturists Association
Uganda: Team Vex
UNBOUND TEAMS
Our backyard party
This year I hosted our skinny dip at my home, which was new for me. Ten of us gathered in my backyard in Boulder City on the afternoon of the 11th, cohosted with the Las Vegas Bares, who brought a great group of friends. It was 110 degrees, but we beat it with barbecue, a pool, some ice-cold drinks. We raised over $250 on the spot, every dollar of it going to the Fistula Foundation.
Thank you to John and the Bares for making it happen, and to everyone who drove out into the desert for it. And thanks to James for the great poster!
Team Planet Nude merch still available
Zaftig Pink made us another original for 2026, a psychedelic space pastoral that went onto tanks, tees, mugs, water bottles, and stickers. Merch sales added another $164 to the fundraiser after costs.
The 2024, 2025, and 2026 designs are all still in the shop, and every dollar of profit still goes to the same place.
Thank you
To everyone who donated, dipped, bought a shirt, sent a photo, started a team, or just told somebody about this: thank you. Thirty of you got Team Planet Nude to first place. Two hundred and sixty-five of you got Skinny Dip Day past $18,000.
This is a strange little tradition, a bunch of naked people raising money to cure a disease most of the world has never heard of. Three years in, it’s one of the things I’m proudest of.
The fundraiser page stays open for a couple more weeks. If you meant to give and didn’t, there’s still time. 🪐
Photos from around the world
Thanks again to everyone who donated, took a dip, shared a pic, or otherwise participated in this wonderful holiday. 🪐
