“My very first day at Hanlan’s I was a little uncomfortable.
Bare bums speckled with wet sand, dangling appendages and collections of exposed skin that mingle together like Neapolitan ice cream: this is the view from Declan Sweeney’s “office.” He’s a lifeguard at Hanlan’s Point, a stretch of beach on Toronto Island that includes the city’s only “clothing optional” public bathing area.Īs a 19-year-old Ryerson engineering student, it’s quite the summer job.