Tip-sy Tuesday: Float Anchor

We've been doing lots of floating in the lake - we are on Lake Huron where there's usually waves, or choppy water, so if you're floating without an anchor it doesn't take long for the float (and you) to end up back on the beach! Learned this genius tip from our campground neighbor - they screw a dog lawn stake thing into the sand (or whatever is on the bottom of your lake, ours is sand) and hook their floats to it with a bungee cord. I changed it a bit by using thin dog leashes that I got at Walmart along with the lawn screw. Is that what it's called, a lawn screw? I don't know - but here's a picture to show you what I mean.

This works great, you can hook more than one float to the screw if you want - and unless it's super wavy or really strong winds it holds us in place for hours of floating. Smart, right?