The one rule I stated when we first purchased the camper several years ago was “no beach camping”  I stuck to that for at least three years. But the convivence of taking everything I want together with the cheaper rates that camping offers along with lots of discussion with my kids. We decided to give it a try.

I am a convert, we will be camping at the beach for many trips to come.  I wanted to make sure I had a record of things that worked and things I might do in the future.

I bought a small plastic pool for $10 in April. This worked well as a extra place to wash feet and shoes. We dumped it each day and clean totally at least 3 times. I am going to just use as a shoe catching spot on future non beach trips.

We used the outside shower to rinse several times that just our feet were dirty. We also bought a water hose sprinkler to use to wash off all the beach toys. It was so nice to be able to wash all the beach toys by the camper on the last day. Everything air dried and was put away!

We always keep our bath baskets outside.  But each day before going to the beach we packed our baskets so that no one went inside the camper after going to the beach instead we grab our baskets and headed to the bath house. Even swim suits were washed at the shower and hung to dry!  No extra sand inside!  A huge bonus was that I did not clean any sand from a shower!  The pressure at the bathhouse was high but it did remove the sand.

We placed a “screen room” around the picnic table which was a good spot to keep out bath baskets during the day!  It was also nice to play cards with a few less bugs outside.

Everyone took a turn for vacuuming the camper each night at bedtime. This also made a huge sand difference.

The rain was a big problem with a sand parking spot. Next time we are going to get a concrete pad so that should make things a tad bit easier.

We ended up eating at the camper the most we ever had and we even ate more at the camper than when we stayed at a house.  Ice cream for desert was a treat at least 3 nights but the cost was worth it and much less than meals out.