Spear for bore water

http://www.glind.com.au/htm/Product.asp#spear

Hi

Built my own using a piece of hose, 50mm of pipe, hand pump and home made filter. Will be testing it on Fraser over the Xmas New Year break. Have ten days to perfect it. Total cost $50.

Would have problems leaving a $300 + spear and $380 pump lying around the camp site.

will have some feedback in the new year

Redeye

I've used one and it was great. To get the fresh water, dig a small hole about 1 to 2' or until you hit the water table. Then jet the sand spear into the table from there via the 12 volt pressure pump. The sand spear has a jet tube that runs through the middle of it and you jet 20l of water (salt or fresh) down and this makes the spear walk down to as deep as you want. The better water is deeper. The filter is on the inside of the sand spear and it is a 4000 screen or micron. This doesn't allow any sand through, only water.
The water we accessed was right at the campsite and once it was down we used the water like you would at home. Washing, showers etc.
My mate had a Glind shower so the pump on this was the same used to run the spear.
No more buckets or runs across the island to get fresh water and a lot less stuff to cart around.
He also had a small sand filter which is the same filter as in the spear but not as big and he pumped fresh water straight from the creek and didn't get any sand inside his pump. This is the big killer of pumps. The little filter was about $90 and very useful.
They are both good bits of gear and I guess it depends on how much of this type of camping you do.

This might be a dumb question, but how close to the beach/water can you use one of these gadgets and still get fresh water?

matt