Was driving down island today and my partner and I decided to go out to the beach to look for agates.
There'd been an earthquake a few days ago and some very large tides, so we thought we'd see if there was anything new.
The beach acccess (53.579724, -131.929968) was covered in driftwood. So after half an hour clearing a path for the truck, we drove out onto the beach and spent an hour looking for agates.
We got there an hour before low tide, and spent until low low tide. Then made our way back to the access point.
It was pretty tight cause some of the logs were huge and we couldn't move them, but I figured I'd gotten down fine, I'd be able to get back up....Nope.
Tried three times to get up the sandbank and no joy. A dude with another truck had stopped to watch/help if needed.
I got to try my Recovery Boards out for the first time. (Have a pair of MaxTrax)
Popped 'em under the front tires...and drove right out.
We weren't 'stuck, stuck'...yet. But I couldn't get up the bump. The other guy would have pulled me up for sure.
But...I got to try a self recovery for the first time...and it went just like in all the YouTube videos about them.
We also found a bunch of agates out on the beach.
All in all, pretty exciting.
There'd been an earthquake a few days ago and some very large tides, so we thought we'd see if there was anything new.
The beach acccess (53.579724, -131.929968) was covered in driftwood. So after half an hour clearing a path for the truck, we drove out onto the beach and spent an hour looking for agates.
We got there an hour before low tide, and spent until low low tide. Then made our way back to the access point.
It was pretty tight cause some of the logs were huge and we couldn't move them, but I figured I'd gotten down fine, I'd be able to get back up....Nope.
Tried three times to get up the sandbank and no joy. A dude with another truck had stopped to watch/help if needed.
I got to try my Recovery Boards out for the first time. (Have a pair of MaxTrax)
Popped 'em under the front tires...and drove right out.
We weren't 'stuck, stuck'...yet. But I couldn't get up the bump. The other guy would have pulled me up for sure.
But...I got to try a self recovery for the first time...and it went just like in all the YouTube videos about them.
We also found a bunch of agates out on the beach.
All in all, pretty exciting.