TapiaSpates811

My family really wished to go camping last summer and decided we would go to Cape Henlopen so we might camp, go to the beach and fish all at the same place. Our children also really enjoy the hiking trails located throughout the park, which is perfect 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 got there, we were shocked when we opened our tent to see gigantic holes that were in it. Most of us wondered 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 want to turn around and head home but we couldn』t find a store that sold camping tents in Delaware that was within a 20-mile radius. It was then that we knew we needed to get imaginative.

The good news is, we had brought several poly tarps for fishing and camping. With a  great deal of ingenuity and  determination we  started gathering branches, rocks and everything we could salvage from our old  camping tent. It was then we took  stock of each and every poly tarp we brought to the beach. My husband had  thankfully brought every tarp he bought when our hardware store 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 attractive  camping tent in the world, my  household was happy that we were still camping.

We started by laying down two 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 protected the blue poly tarps to the ground with rocks and pegs that we still had from our old camping tent (not everything can be as nice as we had wanted). Finally we covered the whole thing with waterproof canvas tarps to keep the rain out. It wasn't pretty but it was stable 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 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 ensure not even a drop of water could come into the outdoor tent. The next day we looked around us and saw that everyone else in the park had actually retreated to their cars after their tents had actually flooded that night. Our poly tarp outdoor tent, branches, duct tape and all, had stood victorious amongst the camp. this month