Chapter Twenty-Nine: Collecting Fresh Water
I knew that this method of water collection by water vapor condensation was very inefficient, and it took a long time to form enough water, and after two or three hours, I lifted the plastic with great anticipation, thinking that the canned box was already full of fresh water, but there was only a little bit of water in the can, and it was pitiful, anyway, this method was feasible.
I picked up the canned food box and carefully put the water in my mouth, I haven't drunk pure fresh water for a long time, although there is only a small sip of fresh water, but I also feel extremely sweet, but this sweetness disappears in my mouth before it can moisten the whole mouth.
This amount of water is a drop in the bucket at all, and at this rate, it won't be much to collect fresh water by condensation at the end of the day, unless I have enough plastic sheeting to collect water, but I only have this one, and it seems that I have to find another way.
I found that there is a lot of morning dew on the island, and if I can collect the dew, I can more or less solve some of the fresh water.
Of course, I know how to collect dew, and I know it on TV shows, which is to use a mesh plastic sheet similar to a shade net to set up in the air, and use condensation and capillary phenomena to collect dew, but where do I get these materials now?
Collecting dew can only use the most primitive method, which was given to me by my grandmother in the countryside when I was a child, and my memory is that my grandmother needs to use dew as medicine, and Chinese medicine calls dew as rootless water that can moisten all things, in order to cure my uncle's spleen disease, several of our brothers and sisters got up early and went to the field with my grandmother to collect dew.
The simplest is to use a glass bottle to collect drop by drop, such dew is the cleanest, but very, very slow are done by girls, and I and boys do not have that kind of patience, so to find a clean cotton cloth is actually a mattress list, the two of them each pulled one end in the grass swinging around and waiting for the dew to hang up and twist hard, the water flowed down, and soon collected a small jar, but grandma said that the dew can not be used into medicine, because we were dirty, our little brother worked in vain early in the morning, but at that time I felt very happy and fun, and now I think about it is still very happy and missed。
I looked at the fact that there were no tools now, and the thing that could absorb water was my clothes, but it was dirty and salty, but I suddenly remembered that I had an absorbent sponge, so I had a good idea in my head.
I cut the insulated suit on the life raft and made a square frame out of bamboo, and then tied the cut insulated suit to the wooden frame, so I made a big cloth bag, and then put the sponge in the big cloth bag, and a simple dew collector was made, and I waited until the morning to try to see if it could collect dew.
I get up early in the morning, because as soon as the sun appears, the dew will be evaporated immediately, I have to collect the dew as soon as possible before the sun comes out, fortunately, the dew last night was very large, in fact, it may be because of the temperature and humidity, not every day there is dew, and the size of the dew is different every day.
Today's dew is not small, because it was very cold last night and there was no wind. Seeing this, I got up early and used my own dew collector to collect dew.
I used the collector to walk through the forest, constantly shaking the flowers and trees to drip the dew on the collector, because the fabric of the collector is waterproof and does not absorb water at all, all the spilled dew is absorbed by the sponge.
The dew collection effect is faster than expected, and whenever the sponge is full of dew, I squeeze the dew out and drink it.
The refreshing and sweet dew moisturizes my whole body from the mouth to the throat and then to the stomach, and I found out that water is the most delicious thing in the world, and I have not drunk pure fresh water for many days, which makes my body feel unwell, the most obvious is diarrhea, although these dew are very small, it is also precious for me to drink and enjoy it.
In addition to drinking myself, I also filled two additional 500ml bottles of water, so that I don't have to worry about fresh water in a day, and I don't have to worry about fresh water in the future, but I should consider more efficient dew collection.
But for now, I still make a bed and a sleeping place, of course, this bed is placed in the hut, or the old way is to dig two pits and bury two columns, the height of the columns is the same as the roof, tie the beams half a meter above the ground, and then spread the wooden sections on the beams, and a bed one meter wide is ready.
The bed is half a meter from the ground to avoid getting damp, I spread a layer of dry and soft grass, and spread the remaining fabric of the lifeboat on the hay, so that the bed is much more comfortable, and finally I cut off the airbag of the life raft and make a pillow, because the airbag of the life raft has six sides, each side is an independent air chamber, and the cut side can be used as a pillow.
Looking at this perfect bed, I was satisfied, and it was so comfortable to lie down immediately, and I could finally sleep peacefully and comfortably, especially the airbag pillow.
But one thing that frustrated me was that the only sailor knife could be sawed a few pieces of wood at first, but after a long time, it couldn't be sawed, and finally I found a wooden stick and used the sailor knife as a chisel to saw the required wood, but now this sailor knife is basically scrapped, and can no longer be used to chop wood and saw wood, but it can be used to divide food or something.
It's better than nothing anyway,,,,,,,
There is no work pressure, no supervision, I am not in a hurry, so the progress of the work is very slow, the cottage is completed except for a roof, there is only one bed inside, the four walls are empty, and there is no wind at all.
Lying on the bed, I thought to myself that there was no boat passing through this island anyway, and it was better to build the hut first, and at least plug the leaky walls on three sides of the hut, so that the hut could shelter from the wind and rain.