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 7 th 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...