----- Original Message ----- From: <Blankibr_at_aol.com> To: <Members_at_cpakayaker.com>; <paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: [Paddlewise] Sand Stakes > Tomorrow at 6:00 am I leave for a week of paddling on the North Carolina > coast. Most of our camping will be on sand. It just dawned on me that my > standard, thin tent stakes won't hold well. I don't have time to get to a store much > less order from a website/catalog. To manufacture something quick, look around the house for any thing flat and sturdy about the size of a pie plate or book. Punch a hole through the middle and run a line through it an make a fat knot on the other side. Shovel out a hole at least 18 inches deep or until you hit and go through a few inches of wet sand. Bury that flat object with its greatest surface perpendicular to the pull of the line. You could also use soda bottles filled with water to give them rigidity and tie a line around each bottle. Again bury with the greatest surface against the pull of the line. However, I think that any amount of walking along a beach will find driftwood and other flotsam that could be used in the same way as above. You could pretty much count on it and just have a few things from home to round out what you find on the beach. I would suggest, in fact, don't bring anything from home except lots of line and a shovel (even those orange plastic ones from camping stores work well if you have any (I have one with every tent I own). Not bringing anything will force you to beach comb and there is nothing quite like it. Not only do you find the most interesting things but walking along the shoreline is a good way to enjoy the sea and that transitional zone through which some early form of life emerged to become creatures of the land. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 1365, Highland, NY 12528 Tel: 845-255-7742; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 12:06:19 PDT
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