This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI BEACH CAMPING ATENT on the beach offers opportunity for healthful recreation and for wholesome adventure that is scarce equalled by the camp of forest or mountain, and the fact also that many of the best fishing points along the coast are so isolated that unless one carries his hotel with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI BEACH CAMPING ATENT on the beach offers opportunity for healthful recreation and for wholesome adventure that is scarce equalled by the camp of forest or mountain, and the fact also that many of the best fishing points along the coast are so isolated that unless one carries his hotel with him it is impossible to taste the joys they have to offer, gives an added importance to the present chapter. Either as a location for a permanent camp, a week-end jaunt, or a mere hiking expedition, the beach has rare possibilities, and yet I have known more than one individual, after a single experience, to raise on high a mosquito-bitten hand and to solemnly pronounce, "Never again!" I give fair warning that many things may come to pass upon the beach which will test the temper and the gameness of the camper, and yet to the redblooded man or woman these very disturbing elements go far to make the game worth while. Ordinarily, no great hardship is entailed. It is only small inconveniences and aggravations many times repeated and multiplied, which are to be put up with. Of course one must go with the expectation of roughing it to a certain extent. If home comforts are demanded or required there are numberless hotels along the coast which offer a varying degree of hospitality in exchange for a more or less modest stipend. Storm and wind and driving rain, drifting sand, the heat of the solar rays, a dearth of water, and at some seasons insect pests of a half dozen varieties--these are the adverse elements and conditions which have worked disaster to many a party which has entered upon a period of beach camping with the hearts of the individuals brimming over with happiness and joyous anticipation but poorly equipped so far as a practical...
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