LOL. Those magazine headlines about sums up our life on a Kodiak beach. (Yes, Mark, it's brown bear territory. We're reminded of that quite often with their company.)
"Solitude is Great, But Men Have Needs" (Sneaking away from the kids, who are asleep in the tent, to have a quiet rendezvous <cough> on a blanket on the sand. Have you ever tried to relax and, well, you know... with the possiblity of the largest of brown bears wandering by? Not terribly romantic. And then there are the sand fleas....)
"Are You Too Sexy For Your Shirt?" (And your fleece. And your rain jacket. And your rain hat... Wait. Wet is supposed to be sexy, right? Wet and steaming from the heat of the fire, smelling like slightly melted synthetic materials. Where do these magazine writers come up with this stuff?)
"Building Bear-Proof Barricades" (There's the cache, 20 feet in the air that we constructed from driftwood logs. This holds our food. Wanna meal? Climb the spikes nailed in the pole, balance on the edge of the platform, dig through 6 drybags for ingredients, send them down in a rope-bucket-pulley thing. Done eating? Reverse the above steps. For the tent we have an electric fence. Wanna know if the fence is working? Have wife touch it.)
I can't wait for a cabin...
Susan