The Shell - our turtle shell.

After a night from hell on an island on the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana on the Louisiana loop after a long hard paddle being out in the weather it felt good the next day to get up and to set up the shell.

The turtle shell or as we call it simply that shell is a rather large tent that’s a family tent that has a nice covered enclosed porch that we use for camping and for transport as a base camp now I also have smaller tents to use for the kayak and kayak camp on the river but for turtling especially being out in the weather this works well for summer and spring but it is not designed specifically for winters now I plan on improving it in some ways by getting a rather large tarp and stringing the tarp over the entire shelf itself because it allows for air circulation because it’s designed more for warm weather that it is for cold so I plan on trying to compensate for that with the extra layer using a giant massive tarp it might work it might not but either way during the summer months and rain and as long as it’s not too cold the Jail goes with Moonshadow and moon river and I was so glad to get this up and to be able to begin camping on ant island.