Now because I live near the sea I have taken this golden oppertunity to see how hard it is to survive in costal regions<br>and came up with a couple of questions <br><br>Apart from regular oiling do I need to do have any other routines to conserve the quality of my knives in consideration with the salty air and water? <br><br>What can I eat? My survival books didn’t tell me a lot, apart it must look healthy, the shell animals must hard to pull of the rock or else its ill, and got hardly any info on eating sea weed. How can I positively ID edible shell animals and sea weed.<br><br>There are no trees near the beach to tie my basha onto. Now I got a great basha kit wich turned a few heads (an (ex)-para taught me how to make it when he was a cadet instructor) but its incomplete. The only thing I still need is retractable tent “sticks” to about 60cm in height for it to be a “stand-alone-basha”. I don’t really want to make my dad’s tentkit incomplete by nicking his tent sticks. So any one got some info where/what/who sells/swaps them?<br><br>BTW my thoughts in the end were not so hard at all, plenty of fresh water, bushes for shelter, lots of edible things and makes good navigational points. <br><br><br>reinhardt