Not headless; just a longgg stretch for my pre-shampoo soak. My bum is not that big– really — it’s just the angle!

When water runs a half a buck a gallon or requires power (solar, running a generator or running our motor) to make it from desalination, long leisurely showers are not a viable option.

For folks sporting fine-haired buzz cuts, like Wayne, short showers do the job just fine.

For longish, thick, wavy mops like mine, it’s another story.

Last year required resorting to what I called the buckethead technique to degrease my hair (click here to see how silly that looked).  Buy hey, thanks to find a shampoo / soap at West Marine that suds in saltwater without stripping the heck out of my hair, and a little noodling about finding a better way, it’s gotten easier. 

Rather than dunking my head in a bucket, which tends to give me a nasal enema, I choose from these the wet – suds up – initial rinse options

1. outside our boat off our swim ladder for all three (wet – suds up – initial rinse)
2. inside our cockpit, after the wet and suds, usually on the way back from a swim or snorkel trip; Wayne does the honors of pouring the bucket rinses
3. off our dinghy; when the current is so strong it does a great wet & rinse and if I was on the side ladder my feet would be going perpendicular.  

Rub-a-dub-dub I’m sudsing my head off our dinghy in Warderick Wells.  The current was swift!