EudoraLollar205

My family really wished to go camping last summer and decided we would go to Cape Henlopen so we might camp, visit the beach and fish all at the same place. Our children also really enjoy the hiking trails located throughout the park, which is best when they are tired of the boardwalk. Since it was off-season, we had the ability to get a camping site right away. We packed our camping gear, some hiking and fishing things and we were on our way. When we finally arrived, we were amazed when we opened our tent to see massive holes that were in it. Most of us asked ourselves how this could possibly happen till we realized we allowed our next-door neighbors to borrow our tent and they must have gotten caught in a storm one night. We, however, did not wish to turn around and head home but we could not find a shop that sold outdoors tents in Delaware that was within a 20-mile radius. It was then that we knew we needed to get imaginative.

Fortunately, we had brought  a number of poly tarps for fishing and camping. With a  great deal of  resourcefulness and  determination we began  getting branches, rocks and everything we  could possibly salvage from our old  camping tent. It was then we took inventory of each and every poly tarp we brought to the beach. My husband had  thankfully brought every tarp he bought when our hardware  shop had poly tarps for sale. We had plenty of materials to make a tent and then some. While we knew it wasn't going to be the most  appealing tent  on the planet, my  household was happy that we were still camping.

We began by laying down 2 blue poly tarps on the ground to make sure we did not get any dirt or sand in our sleeping bags. Then we attached them to a brown poly tarp, and a canvas tarp using rubber tarp straps. We then secured the blue poly tarps to the ground with rocks and pegs that we still had from our old tent (not everything can be as good as we had wanted). Finally we covered the entire thing with waterproof canvas tarps to keep the rain out. It wasn't pretty but it was steady and we can easily use it for a week after we used the rods and pegs from our old tent and some sturdy branches from around the camping spot. Then the storm came. I have never ever seen my husband fix anything as quickly as he did when he threw duct tape on every blue poly tarp, hay tarp and rubber tarp strap after he heard thunder in the distance. Somehow he managed to protect every nook and cranny in the tent to make sure not even a drop of water could come into the tent. The next day we looked around us and saw that everyone else in the park had retreated to their vehicles after their camping tents had actually flooded that night. Our poly tarp outdoor tent, branches, duct tape and all, had actually stood victorious among the camp. white poly tarp