For the July/August issue of Breathe we made a little Beach Camping Survival Guide with our picks for high-end gear, places to camp, advice and a recipe for a Lowcountry boil. On Memorial Day weekend I ventured down to the Outer Banks to do some “research” (AKA lay in the sun and drink beer) for this story, but our trip ended up turning into a mini vacay catastrophe. To read/see what really happened on our beach camping trip, click here. But, we were able to turn it into a “survival guide” because in reality that’s what we were doing while beach camping … kind of.