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What a
Good Tent Site Does & Doesn't Need
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Here are some of the things to look for in an ideal camp site. If you find such a place, you'll probably keep coming back over and over. Unless you tell a good friend, who will tell a good friend who will...until it becomes a campground instead of your special camp site.
Water:
As one wise outdoorsman expressed it, water is something to camp near, not always on it. Sometimes you can get more water around your tent than you ever imagined. One way is to pick a poorly drained site that floods you out in the middle of the night after a thunderstorm.
Florida is the lightning capital of the nation: Camping in an open area on a lake or on the beach beside the ocean can be downright dangerous during the summer. Sleeping beachside in a tent with metal poles is not something you'd want to do during the summer thunderstorm season. A wide open space beside a lake makes you as much of a sitting duck. Fortunately, the heat and the bugs make this the worst time of year to camp, so staying more inland in the shade is not a great sacrifice.
Beware of low ground in winter as well as during the rainy season. In the cold of winter, low areas collect more fog, dew and even frost. Generally, it's always better to be on higher ground above the water, an area that normally be better drained, have a better air flow and consequently fewer insects. Just be careful about the amount of air flow in winter because it's a type of air conditioning you can't turn off.
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