Slack Line on the Beach

July 3rd (Wednesday)

In the morning we headed to the beach with a project in mind. We grabbed the full-length shovel from behind the outhouse at the trailhead to West Beach, and hiked over to 7th beach. 
Although it was surprisingly warm, it was also cloudy, and remained that way all day. We watched through the day as crazy dark clouds lingered offshore, sometimes they would form distinct clouds and rain was clearly visible beneath them, other times they would meld into one dark line. Luckily for us they remained in the distance all day, and it was actually perfect weather for working. 


We set up two anchor points in the sand for our slack line. We basically dug a 4' deep hole, put in a vertical post and tamped the sand down around it. Then about ten feet behind it we dug a 4' deep and about 4-5' long hole into which we put a log about four feet long laying horizontal in the hole. This was our buried anchor for the post.  


We had grabbed some old rope from the trailhead beach garbage pile of 4th beach on the way out, and after untangling it we had plenty of rope. We ran a rope up from each end of our anchor to our post and then buried the anchor and tamped down the sand. We repeated this process where we wanted our second anchor point. Digging in the sand was so nice, there were no buried sticks, logs, pebbles, or rocks, just sand all the way down.


 When we were finished we set up the slack line in between the two anchor points and it worked. Yay! We have always wanted to set up our slack line on a beach. It is such a great place for it.
We spent the day enjoying our beach, and even went in for a swim to clean up after our digging. We did not stay in long, but it was very refreshing!
Back at home we enjoyed fish tacos with the fresh tortillas from yesterday.

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