Angel Eyes Naturist B&B

About

We bought our home just north of the town of Bowmanville in September 2009.  Situated on a beautiful forested 6 acres, near the edge of town where the houses stop and the farms begin, we envisioned starting a naturist B&B, to make new friends and help spread the word about naturism.  Previously we lived in Scarborough and didn't have the privacy to be nude outside in our own backyard.  Hopefully someday people can be free to be nude (as long as non-sexual and non-intimidating) on their own property or on public beaches.  But, until that happens, please join us on our own little private nudist oasis.

We are Ron & Lan, husband and wife, married in 2001.  We have two beautiful daughters and a golden retriever.

We want our B&B to be a family environment and we want you to feel as much as possible like a member of our family.

Ron

Ron was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario in 1962.  Even growing up, he was never really interested much in clothes, mostly wanting to just be comfortable.  He has always been a bit shy.

Graduating from Wexford C.I. in 1981, he completed Bachelors of Math degree in 1987 in the co-op program at the University of Waterloo and a Masters of Math in 1989, also at University of Waterloo, specializing in computer graphics. After graduating university, Ron started work as a software developer for Alias Research in 1989 in downtown Toronto. Alias was later purchased by SGI and then by Autodesk. So, Ron is now working as a software developer for Autodesk.

Ron moved to a 10 acre farm in Uxbridge in 1994, raised chickens and sold fresh eggs to his co-workers. This gave him his first opportunity to be nude outside -- Ron especially loves gardening nude.

At the time, not knowing of any naturist places in the Toronto area, in 1997 Ron went to Ottawa for a weekend and very much enjoyed his first naturist experience at The Grand Barn.

Divorced in 1998, moved back to the city, remarried in 2001, re-introduced to naturism by visiting and joining Bare Oaks in 2007 and now once again living in the country, it has been quite a journey getting here.

Ron hopes to over time, create a naturist oasis, retreat, sanctuary, haven, here in the town of Bowmanville.  For him, it's about becoming a part of our beautiful natural world around us and to live in harmony with the natural world.  And by removing our clothes, we can feel a closeness and more a part of the nature that surrounds us.

Being nude is a large part of this experience, but it's much more, a philosophy to learn about and live in harmony with our beautiful natural world.  Over the coming years, Ron hopes to study and learn about the nature of the forest that surrounds him.

Living in harmony with nature means Ron will work from home as often as he can, drive seldom, and never use chemicals or pesticides or fertilizers.  To his wife's displeasure, sometimes the grass may be a bit tall in spots.  To Ron, tall grass and clover and wild, native plants is a thing of beauty -- full of so much life.  However, Ron is only human and biting insects such as mosquitoes can be extremely bothersome.  So Ron did give in and bought a Mega Catch mosquito killing machine -- not sure yet how well it's working, but sadly it's catching a lot of moths as well.  It's hard to say if moths are good or not, for caterpillars can be extremely destructive to plants and trees.

This website is created and maintained by Ron, so when you see "I" is mentioned, it's Ron who's speaking.

Lan

Lan was born in Chengdu China, in the Sichuan province , in 1975.  She's 13 years younger than Ron.

Lan is quite a wonderful singer, winning first place in a singing contest at her college in China.  Karaoke singing is quite a popular pastime in China.  And she became quite a star and known for her singing at Bare Oaks -- especially for her rendition of The Way We Were, by Barbra Streisand.

While she was living and working in China, in March 2001 she found Ron on the internet and started writing to him.  Love quickly blossomed.  In October 2001, Ron flew to China to meet Lan for the first time and they got married 2 weeks later.  Ron then went back to Canada and they waited patiently to be together again.  Exactly one year went by, Lan's immigration was approved, she packed up her things and came to Canada for the first time.

A year later, in November 2003, their first daughter was born.  And 4 years later, November 2007, their second daughter, came into this world as well.

Goldie

If you stay with us, you will no doubt meet our very friendly golden retriever puppy.  She is well behaved, but she sometimes gets over excited, especially when seeing new people.

Goldie was born in the summer of 2009 and we bought her in September 2009, during the week of our very busy and hectic move to our new home.

About our home

We have the following facilities available for use by our guests for no extra charge:

• wireless highspeed internet
• 21 foot round above ground swimming pool
• deck with chairs, swing chair, and some lounge chairs to enjoy bathing in the sun.
• two BBQ's.  One is propane powered.  The other is a charcoal grill (bring your own charcoal).
• new black Wii with Wii Fit video game system
• large selection of FCN Going Natural magazines
• badminton
• table tennis
• basketball
• exercise equipment -- nordic trac ski machine and health rider
• two lcd flat screen tvs (no tvs in the bedrooms).
• playstation 2, xbox and nintendo video games.
• screened gazebo overlooking our private forest -- though I'll usually be using the gazebo as my office.
• sunroom
• pianos -- our 6 year old daughter Angelina will often be practicing as she's won many awards
• several acres of forest, a small stream and a large lawn.
• our forest has hundreds of trilliums that bloom in the spring.  The fall is beautiful too, with the leaves (mostly maple trees) changing color and falling.
• and at night the sky fills with stars, with no street or city lights.

About our guest rooms

For our overnight guests, we have two guest bedrooms available.  One has a queen sized bed and balcony overlooking our deck and forest.  The second bedroom has a 3/4 sized bed.  The bedrooms have a shared bathroom with shower/bathtub.  And, as our guests will spend most of their time either outside or in the common areas of the house, the bedrooms do not have tvs.

Part of the Iroquois Beach

The soil of our home is very sandy.  I found this watershed report from our local conservation association.  And I learned about the history of our land.  Our home is actually situated on the northern part of Lake Iroquois Beach.  Lake Iroquois was essentially Lake Ontario, only much larger -- it existed about 13,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age.  As the ice sheet melted, sand being heavier fell first, creating the Lake Iroquois beach.  The St. Lawrence river was blocked by the ice, hence the lake was larger and found a path to drain to the ocean through New York state.

Future plans

In the spring 2010, we planted 625 tree seedlings to help give our home more privacy from the road.  It will likely take a few years to grow, but we envision it will look very beautiful in the years ahead.  We planted 350 cedars, 100 red osier dogwood, 75 nannyberry, 75 cranberry and 25 oak trees.  The dogwood, nannyberry and cranberry are all flowering bushes that should provide food for birds and wildlife.

We admit, on the hot summer days a swimming pool would be nice.  But at the same time, it goes against the philosophy of living in harmony with the natural world.  Swimming pools require a lot of chemicals to kill anything alive in them.  I much prefer to create a natural pond, full of fish and life. Still, we will explore the possibility of adding an above ground swimming pool in the near future.  Update: July 21, 2010, we just finished installing a 21 foot round swimming pool.

A hot tub will also be a nice addition, but we need to expand the deck first.  In 2011, we will build a new deck off the sunroom. By fall/winter 2011, we should have a hot tub added.

To aid in the privacy, we want to build a tall gate at the top of the driveway.

Another project I personally want to to undertake this year is to better manage the forest, learn about it and clean up the dead wood and create some hiking and walking trails.  The dead wood will come in very handy for next winter too.  We have a beautiful wood burning fireplace insert in the family/piano room that really warms up that room on the cold winter nights.

Our Wildlife

As we learn more about the wildlife at our home, I'll add more information here.  So far we've heard coyotes howling at night, often seen a rabbit and seen a raccoon.  The place also comes alive with birds, especially as the sun rises in the early morning.