SOLO Rainy Camp on a Deserted Beach under a Tree | Tarp + Tent

What's up everybody and welcome back to the channel. I am out here today on a sandy beach on the Great Lakes. I'm going to be spending the night with a tarp and a tent underneath this fallen tree. It's cold, it's rainy, it's windy. All the best conditions for camping. Oh it's nice to come out when it's like this because it's a bit of an adventure but also it's a much greater chance that I have the entire place to myself. This wasn't exactly the plan for today. I had something else in mind. At the last minute I kind of had to pull a little bit of an audible. Either way I'm here and I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to spend the night out here enjoying this beautiful nature area. I'm going to make myself a nice fire or at least try to cook up some good food. I got some good beers to drink. I'm just going to take it all in and do my best to live in the moment. But before I do any of that I'm going to get off of the old that is New Holland's Beer Barrel Bourbon. It's definitely a favorite on the channel. All right everybody without further ado let's get into it. All right so same thing I did last time. Oh I pitched my tarp into the wind to catch it like a sail instead of using it to block the wind. So since I'm going to want my fire in front that would be blowing all the smoke directly into my tarp which means I got to take the tarp and I got to move it so it's pointing back over that way. Okay well that is uh officially up. I swear sometimes these things can be easy and simple to do and sometimes they can be a real pain in the butt. Oh but yeah I'm really not feeling the wind coming in and it's blowing that way anyway. Uh so I think right out in front here is going to be a good spot to have a fire. I'm feeling pretty cozy under here. Still got to set up the tent. Got some more stuff to set up so that's the stuff we got to work on next. All right I'm trying out this tent from Near Zero. It's pretty small but I have a few pieces of their gear today so I'm going to be just seeing how these work. I've got a trip coming up with my nephews and we're going to be doing a little two-night backpacking trip so I might take this tent we'll see. I'll probably take it and if if nothing else one of them can use it. But for tonight I'm going to be giving it an old test. I'd rather get this stuff tested out when it's just me out here alone than when I got the little ones with me if you know what I mean. Here's I put it on backwards. Yes I did. I mean you gotta flip the whole thing around. Now we're moving and shaking. All right so this thing has clips which I'm a big fan of clips. I greatly prefer that to having to feed the tent pole through a sleeve. That way is fine too but this is just a lot more convenient. So the whole beach is basically just like a big slope. There are some spots where I could have pushed back in further into the trees and had some flatter ground. For like a normal camping scenario I probably would have done that. You know the whole point of of making the video here is to camp on the beach. That's that's part of the fun of making this video. At any rate I am camping on the beach and we have a bit of a slant and it's pretty much like that all the way up and down the beach. When you get stuck where you don't have very level ground what I like to do is angle it so your head is at the top and your feet are down. I find that to be a more comfortable sleeping position than either rolling over to the side or your head lower than your feet. What I also will do sometimes and we might give this a try tonight is put the backpack perpendicular in the tent underneath your sleeping pad and that helps kind of lift your legs up a little bit and then you're kind of almost into like a V. You're a little bit flatter that way so anyway that's how I like to do it. That's what we'll be doing tonight I think. 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I was planning on coming roughly to this location or maybe a bit further down because it's it's kind of easier to paddle a longer distance than it is to hike it in my opinion anyway. But I got here and I walked out and checked the point where you put the canoe in and the waves were just beating down. Last summer I tried repeatedly to paddle out to an island that's off the shore of this beach that has like an abandoned lighthouse and some really cool stuff on it. I mean I have maybe three different failed attempts trying to get there because the waves were heavy. When I looked online today it looked like we were going to be okay. Just to be safe I went ahead and threw a hiking backpack in the car and sure enough when I got here I had to unpack everything and throw it into that backpack and just do a little bit of a hiking trip. But I'm here and I'm set up and I'm definitely happy about that. So I did camp with this mat on another camp. I don't know at the time of this filming if you've seen it or not. I haven't posted it yet but I thought it was was you know kind of comfortable enough. I generally prefer like a vertical baffling kind of like a pool float and I find those types of sleeping mats to be the most comfortable. I didn't think this one was bad to be honest with you. One thing is and you can see it's thin. It's like a thin uh uh it's thin this way. Not necessarily this way. It's it's wide enough this way you know for for three season use. But um yeah it is it is uh it is I mean it's not even barely like as wide as my shoulders. Just barely or or almost. So um I am a side sleeper so for the most part I think I'll be fine. Get my sleeping bag set up in there. When you're doing this you're gonna get some amount of sand in the tent. There's no two ways around it. I don't think that's gonna be very doable for a good night's sleep tonight. Oh for crying out loud. Yeah I thought I was gonna get away with being lazy but I don't think it's gonna happen. So that's all right. Gives us a nice fun activity. That's better. That should do it. I'm gonna go ahead and say that's pretty solid. I could probably fiddle around with it a little bit more but I think I have a few things that are a little bit more important that I need to tend to. Yep that's a good one. All right so I'm going for a little bit of a walk up and down the beach there and I found a couple of uh crankbaits. Yeah so I'm curious if you can let me know in the comments what these are kind of good for. I think it's missing a treble hook here so I could probably add one. Yeah it's got a big lip on it and there's a treble hook in the back and it kind of wiggles like that and then this one's got like three treble hooks in the middle and a big lip so I imagine it goes down pretty reasonably deep. Just curious what do you think these things are good for? What would you use to fish these? What conditions would you fish them in? If you know a little bit about fishing. I'm doing my best to learn so I'm going to take these home with me, clean them up, put them back to use. Might as well and yeah I'd love to hear from you guys. Let me know. Let me know in the comments. Okay well got my firewood kind of all sorted out. I'm pretty much ready to to get that fire going. I guess it's probably the responsible thing if I take you on a little walk and show you the stuff I wanted to show you before I start the stop people from littering. I really wish they wouldn't do it. This whole beach up and down is just completely covered with litter. I can only make so much of an impact but try to grab a handful of it to take out with me when I leave. I know a lot of you do the same I'll take it. Cheers everybody. All right I'm gonna listen to the waves, finish my meal in peace channel regularly then you would have probably seen my old dog Monty. He's been in a handful of videos he he was a very very old dog and recent video that I did with him was his last camp. His hips were failing for about a year. It was getting progressively worse. We had gradually started him on three different pain medications. He started off with a shot once a month called Labrella. From there we introduced the daily pill called Vetprofen. After that he ended up on Gabapentin three times a day. His leg would shake. He'd been through the wringer. The past few years we'd removed a cancerous lump from his from his back hip. He had bladder stones that we had to have surgically removed. You know Mrs. Bananas and I don't have children so the dogs are kind of like our children. At Christmas time last year we had three dogs and today we have one. Old Killian. Super sweet Killian. Very very sweet dog. He's young and he's still kicking and he's very very healthy. At a certain point of trying to take care of Monty he started slipping and falling. His legs were spreading out. His hind legs were spreading out like this and he couldn't stand back up on his own. It was only a matter of time. His favorite place in the world was my in-laws. They had a nice big fencing yard and it was just a place where he he really enjoyed himself. We were house-sitting for them so we were over there for almost a week. So we just spoiled him every night with a bunch of extravagant dinners. Pizza, bacon wrapped pork chops with a peanut butter sauce drizzled all over it. I mean we just spoiled him. Lots of love, lots of hugs, lots of pets. Then we had a service come out and they led him to rest right in the backyard. I'm glad I was able to do that for him but I know it was time and I know we had to do what we had to do but it's hard to say goodbye to a dog that you've had for 15 years. I got him as a puppy from the dog pound. They guessed him at four months old and they'd had him for a month. In about roughly August he'd been 16. He was 50 pounds. He wasn't giant but he he was a he was a decent sized dog and he lived a long life so I hope I gave him the best life that I could. Don't mean to don't mean to end the night on a such a downer but I gotta share it with you guys at some point. All right everybody I'm gonna sit around and enjoy the fire for a little bit. Anything crazy happens I'll definitely let you guys know. Otherwise uh you'll see me in the I had a very fun time. I hope you did too. Oh I want to send a big big shout out to each and every one of you. You all make it possible for me to do this and I really appreciate the support. If you liked what you saw today and you want to see more I would greatly appreciate it if you would click that banana and we're gonna catch you on the next one everybody. Bye now.