Adventurers be prepared with solar

Campers, boaties, hunters, motorcaravaners – in fact anyone who goes outdoors needs a Solarlight Cap.
Even a trip to the letterbox or the toolshed qualifies as an adventure for which one should be prepared with a 2C solar light cap.

It’s the sort of simple but highly effective tool that, once you’ve owned one, you wonder how you ever managed before. These caps protect you from the sun while collecting energy from it during the day. Then, the cap gives hours of free light at night.
If you’re not wearing it during the day, it can be left in a sunny spot, in a window, on a sill or hanging in the sun, to charge up. No batteries required.
Waterline took the latest 2C light on a test drive this week, which was good timing, since my original 2C cap has been thoroughly tested and abused for over two years now. It’s still going strong but is certainly starting to show signs of a hard life and is due to be retired to the bach or the boat.
Since buying my first 2C light, I’ve had to get 2C caps for the whole family to ensure that mine doesn’t get nicked. They’ve all worked perfectly from day one. Claire has two – a lightweight vented summer version and a fully-lined winter woolly model, which covers her ears.
These days you can get them in so many different styles and colours, there’s something for all tastes.
My 2C solar light cap goes everywhere – it’s the first thing to be packed when going in the boat, to the bach, hunting, fishing, kayaking or anywhere outdoors.
It’s also the first thing to find when the power goes out, providing hours of free, constant and reliable hands-free light at any time.  Even checking dark lockers and boat bilges, the 2C hat has light at the ready, hands-free.
On longer kayak missions, it’s good to know I’ve a reliable light source at the ready above decks and hands-free after the sun dips.
Fishing after dark or early mornings, it’s great to have a controllable light source, where you need it, for baiting up and tying traces.
With the solar panel in the peak, the bright little LED lights can run for up to eight hours on a free charge from the sun.
The caps are water resistant, so can handle a bit of rain and the odd light dunking. Mine has survived a lot more than that – torrential rain storms, kayak surf landings, a couple of falls in the mud, sloshed around the bilge a couple of times and extremes of temperature.
The light can be dimmed or put onto a flashing mode, including the SOS signal.
The caps are ideal for reading, with the variable dimmer to get just the right amount of light.  Don’t leave home without it.