Excellent day at East Beach. I arrived at 9 a.m. to find one 4x4 already in parking lot #2 (about ½ mile down the 4x4 trail. Over the course of the day there were the usual beach walkers and usual couples and family groups. I wore my usual tie side g-string. About 20 yards down the beach was another guy in a tiny g-string also basking in the sun. At one point an older guy walked by wearing a miniscule g-string. All of us scattered among more conventionally attired groups. As if it was the most routine situation conceivable – actually it pretty much was. The surf was unusually high for Block Island Sound (about 5 feet – all day), sun unusually intense (85 degrees and very humid).