Camping on the beach

 

On this last trip, we had a difficult time finding a protected spot to set up our teepee.  We knew it was supposed to blow 50 mph out of the west and so we needed to find a good spot that faced east.  The only spot we could find was on the lakeshore, and even that spot was not quite big enough.  So we had to move same sand and gravel to flatten the spot and extend it out a bit into the water.  We even built a little wall on the outside to protect our teepee platform from waves.  

At first Mike and I were skeptical of camping on the beach.  But Ray informed us that they have to do this a lot on Kayak trips to Prince William Sound.   And so we camped on the sandy beach.  It turned out to be a good call because we did get some severe west winds and it was a protected spot.  Good thing we did not get a wind storm out of the East!

Camping on the sand was a little challenging.  It was difficult to keep sand out of our gear.  I used my pad and packs as table and even re purposed the plastic packaging from some our Safeway wood to use as a small gear tarp.  The biggest challenge was keeping the grit out of the food.

But it all worked out and in the end I kind of liked the spot.  Camping on a sandy beach is not too bad after all.

Patrick