Adventure 056- Hammock

Capture California, the Game-2012

Adventure: 056 - Hammock

Team: Thing One, Thing Two

Date:  July 31, 2012

Location: San Joaquin River

Description:
The Cat in the Hat really enjoys here sleep. She also knows that one of the best places to get her sleep is in her hammock. Rather than carry a tent backpacking, she snuggles down in her hammock, with the protective mosquito netting and sleeps and sleeps and sleeps.



Of course, the hammock has had a long history of providing comfort to those in need of rest. The sailors who crossed the oceans in the 1500's discovered that the hammock's gentle, or not so gentle, sway aided in a good night sleep. But even before then, explorers discovered that the natives to the Caribbean islands tied fish net between two trees to sleep on. In fact, the word hammock comes from the Haitian word for fish net. These West Indies, and later on discovered throughout Central and South America provided a degree of protection from animal, inset, and snake bites by being off the ground.



But does the Cat's hammock keep her safe from Thing One and Thing Two?

P.S. Cats never drool!