Valuables: Jewelry and Cameras and Wallet Items

Jewelry: just one more thing to have to keep track of-- Do you really need to bring your collection of jewelery when we will be doing as much swimming, snorkeling, and hiking as we are?

If it's costume jewelery, it will just tarnish in the salt water and salt air. It's not safe to keep in the car, and sometimes the car will be far away from where we will be hiking/swimming.

If you need to bring jewelry, I will be bringing the following 3 waterproof pouches:

They are sturdy, waterproof, and they float in the water. I am planning to put credit cards, drivers licenses, cash, and keys in them.

I checked and I was able to fit my passport in these cases.

In order to keep the vinyl bright and clear, remove this from your neck as you spray yourself with sun tan lotion and bug spray. Especially the bug spray, which will cloud the clear vinyl.

Also, cameras can fit in them, and you can use your camera to take pictures through them, although I think that once the case gets scratched up, the picture will not be clear.

I took this picture of Lucy with my iphone in the case. Pretty clear.

Note that if you want to use this kind of waterproof case to take underwater pictures, your pressure sensitive button will not work under water, because the water is also exerting pressure on the phone. The button will wake up the phone, but will not recognize your thumbprint. You will need to turn your thumbprint security off under water (don't worry, you can still enter in your passcode). Also, instead of triggering a photo using the camera app button, you will need to trigger the photo by using one of the volume up-down buttons. It is easy to switch your camera to do this.

Or you can pay a little extra and get a case that has a pressure sensitive button panel, like this one:

iPhone waterproof case with pressure sensitive panel, $9.99 from Amazon

Finally, you can buy a waterproof/shockproof/fallproof case for your camera. I have one and it protects the camera very well. The down side to having one of  these cases on your camera are:

• When people call you on the phone, your voice is muted and muffled. You have to pull out the plug stop just so people can hear you.
• When you recharge your phone, you have to pull out the plug stop to get the charger in.
• When you attach any phone device such as a memory card, you have to pull out the plug stop to use the attachment.
• These cases are quite bulky, and your phone may not fit a gimbal or other phone attachments
• Once you put on one of these indestructo phone cases, it's on to stay. You can take it off using a butter knife, but it is very hard to put on and take off. It's not meant to be temporary, such as when swimming at the beach one time. Every time you remove one of these cases, it gets the inside of the case a little more dusty, and makes the case a little less waterproof.

If you dont want to bring your expensive wedding ring, but you want the ladies and gents to know you are off the market, try one of these Kauai silicon rings for the trip for $5.99. Be warned though, if you have a silicone sensitivity, you may be a rash. For the two weeks of the trip, it might work okay.

Kauai Silicone Wedding Rings from Amazon, $5.99