I know you've all been wondering, "How do you take care of yourselves in your primitive-tropical-Hawaiian-jungle-environment with no flush toilets or hot running water?"
I'm here to show you how we take our jungle showers.
Sadly, I lost the very adorable picture I had of Papa Bear in the jungle shower when my laptop went on the blitz and died.
{Don't worry, it wasn't a Nudie-Judy, and if my laptop is resuscitated I will post that pic here.}
SO basically the shower works like this:
- Fill shower bag halfway with water.
- Place bag, black side up, on black tailgate on black tarp. (Breadfruit optional)
- Let sit in the sunshine for several hours.
- Hoist bag up to shower room with ingenious pulley system.
- Take hot (but quick) shower in Jungle Shower.
Here on the Kona coast, the sun usually shines in the morning, then clouds up by 12:30pm or so (just in time for us to get done with our work shifts).
A shower around 4:30pm on a cloudy day will be a very brisk shower. I'm not tough enough for that treatment, so when that happens, I take a kettle of near boiling water, mix a little at a time with the shower bag water in a water pitcher and pour the warmed water back into the bag.
Ahhhhh!
Just like showering at home. But without so much water.
Aloha -
2 comments:
That's how we heat up the kid's pool in the summer. Stretch the hose out in the sunshine, wait a few hours and then let her go.
I'd do the kettle trick too on cloudy days, cold showers aren't my thing either.
Haha - great trick. Now if I could just get it to warm up on cloudy days, too...
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