Ultimate Camping Thread

Well, if I move to San Diego here in the next year, looks like I found a good camping spot!

Can you swim in that water, or will you just get devoured?

 

Wow. Yeah.

I was in San Diego in the Padres press box last year when the one hit in June(?) and stopped the game for a minute.

I had never been in one that rolled like that. After everything calmed down, the PA guy got on the mic and said "everyone please remain calm." The whole stadium just laughed, like "we do this all the time, dipshit."

 

lol we dont get them very often. i think this is my third but it was by far the biggest. I was surprized every one on campus didnt freak out.

 

That's just like slamming a door out here ...hope you are all OK.

 

Haha! Yeah for you guys it's probably:

"Hey! Keep the earthquakes down! I'm trying to watch COPS!"

 

Of course... it has one of the world's biggest tides (16-20 foot), so you usually swim around high tide, otherwise it is about a half mile walk to get your feet wet at low tide!

We prefer the summer when the sea water is close to 85ºF or more! We spend as much time in the water as we can!

Low tide (first photo from high tide line):





Looking back towards the beach from out on the low tide sand bars (see my silver Tacoma?):



During a full or new moon, the tides are the biggest. High tides comes just after noon and midnight and low tide about sunrise and sunset. During the quarter moon phases those are reversed and the tides are much less severe.

 

^ thats nuts! most tides around here are around 10 feet

 

Pretty cool that all that water moves in and out 4 times a day... think of the energy! AS you go south in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) the tides become less and less severe, but the volume that moves north and south in the 700 mile long gulf is perhaps why it is one of the richest fishing grounds in the world with over 800 varieties of fish and whales.

 

Compare and contrast that with the Puget Sound where if you're not careful, your boat ends up high and dry at low tide Some pretty big tides in the Sound.

 

Cool video... same thing happens at the top of the gulf where it meets the Colorado River, thanks for posting!

 

well i had to break out all the camping and survival equipment thanks to irene. heading into town to pick up some extra stove fuel and some mountain house meals incase our power goes out.....which i can 100% assure you that it will.

 

Careful with the fuel and open flame.

 

I don't get to camp as much as I would like, but I usually buy REI gear. For 2 reasons: 1) Dividens 2) Unquestioned return policy.

I was camping at the Bonneville Salt Flats for Speed Week. You can't hammer in steaks, so I drilled in bolts. The wind and rain was so bad that over 2 dozen tents we damaged and destroyed in my camp ground area. My tent stayed in tact....

... Even after the rain softened the ground enough to release the bolts and sent my tent, fully loaded, over 200 feet into the canal. We used tie down to fish it out. The poles were bent from the recovery and a few holes had been punched in the mesh by a cot inside.

I cleaned it up, took it back to REI and they ordered me my model (not the current one) and seeing it was now a reduced price, gave me a store credit.

I will take bigger, longer bolts next time.

 

tip accepted

thats nuckin futs!!!!

I love storms...i just hope a tree dosent fall on the taco....down side to living in the woods

 

whooohooo i expect a full review after the meet

 

sorry its my inner gear whore yelling out....i try to keep it under controll but sometime it just gets out