Went for the first time on the beach with my baby daughter at Emu Bay

I think you mean when you have stopped driving. TJM (and I think ARB) and also roofrack world on Gepps Cross corner have a canvas rollout (much like a caravan awning) which is connected to the rack. Just rolls out from the side and then you peg it up. Not cheap though but very effective.

I don't know how old your daughter is dedalus but you can't beat the old slip, slap slop. Once they get moving you'll never keep them in the shade anyway, far too much fun to be had exploring the beach. If she's not at the walking stage yet a simple beach shade from KMart of the like will do the job.

G'day Dedalus,

we too took our young one (Cooper) on the beach at Emu Bay last week. A beautiful beach hey?
We took a "Moana Shade" beach shelter but found it a bit too breezy to use this. eventually we simply tied a tarpaulin to the roof rack and used the poles from the shade and pegged one end of the tarp to the ground.
for a more professional look roll-out awnings are available. Sar Major at St Mary's may laso be able to tailor make a cheaper option for you.
Good luck.

Dan

I've been thinking a lot about that issue and there some good plans on this forum for roll out ones in protective tubing etc.

However, mine was always going to get so little use i wanted something really cheap and really really easy to make.

I settled on a small piece of timber 3m long which i can gaff tape to my roof racks for the few times a year i go to the beach and want that shade. Into the wood are screwed some hooks that have an extra piece of bendy metal to close the loop to prevent the tarp rings from jumping out - u get these from mitre ten or any hardware store at the small hooks section. On the beach the 3m x 3.5m tarp is pulled out and goes up and onto these hooks in about a minute and then peging out the two poles take another couple minutes (to save time i use motorcyle tie downs rather than tent guy ropes). Looks cr#p but works fine and any dill can put this together. When i go home just cut off the gaff tape and put the piece of wood with hooks away in the garage somewhere.

Ray' outdoors Main Nth rd have a shade with magnetic suction cups for the roof and two poles on the other end, sides all peg down about $100, I have one and use it all the time as a kitcken shelter when camping

Hi Dedalus

I use a tarp with a spreed bar cable tied to one end. this spreeder end is then cable tied to the roof rack and comes eith off the back or off the side. Then I use poles with ropes to the front. they even make sand pegs for the beach. Takes all of 5 min by myself to put up and take down.

I use a 3.6x3.6 for my small shade if im there all day I use a 3.6 by 7.2 so thet the car is in sade as well (helps the fridge work better)

All up cost around $100 for two tarps and the poles.
TM2CW

Trevor

Hi Dedalus,

Presume you have a roof rack (?) to fix something to. I've used a piece of sail track (get at Bunnings) to which I've attched a length of canvas. Roll up using 2 tent poles and keep it together with 2 straps. Pretty easy but requires a small amount of sewing and punching a couple of eyelets in the corner. Relatively cheap.

See it's attached to my fishing rod tube.



Kind regards

You could do some real damage to this problem with a piece of heavy duty shadecloth,
some attatchment clips from Bunnings on one side to tie to your rack. Eyelets at the other corners through which you put tent poles and rope and tent pegs driven into the sand. Relatively cheap, fun to make.
Camper

hiya D.....type shade awning into the search bar at the top, change the search from active to Both.scroll down and you will find what i did to keep the sun off the little ones.

rick.

Bought a roll out awning from Supercheap ($79). Attaches to the roof rack with a couple of velcro straps then just rolls out. Legs and ropes are attached to the roller. Just roll it out, drop the legs and peg it down (pegs are included, as are 2 vinyl bags that can be filled with sand for weight). Comes with its own bag so just travels on the roof rack when not in use. Not much bigger than 2 decent sized fishing rods when packed up.
The material isn't heavy duty but works perfectly for shade