Cell phones and boating/beaches

there are waterproof pouches... i saw one a few days ago, i want to say at walmart?

There are waterproof bags, look in your cellphone accessory aisle at Target/Walmart, etc. Normally though, I just bring sandwich size bags to the beach to keep our phones in them, mainly to keep sand out.

As a coastal Floridian, I will tell you that I've been lucky so far by keeping my phone in a ziploc bag except for when I need to use it. DH has been bugging me to break down & get a Lifeproof case AND a Lifeproof life jacket (that allows them to float in water). So far I haven't. We have a dry box (large tupperware container) that we use on the boat, so it goes in there while we're boating. Sometimes I pull it out to take pix, but then I put it right back in.

Of course, when we cruised and stopped in Haiti, I decided that I HAD TO HAVE a photo of the mountains from my vantage point floating in the water. I popped my phone into a waterproof bag (one specially meant for phones) and paddled back out to the water. By the time I got to my spot my phone was vibrating like crazy. Within 1/2 hr it was so hot that I couldn't hold it & had to wrap it in a towel. It was frying from the inside out b/c a few drops of salt water had gotten into the "waterproof" bag. So.... I won't do that again without having every. stinking. thing. backed up (which you can't do on a cruise unless you use your laptop offline or some other combination). I'd backed up before leaving home but lost everything from the time we left home until we got to Haiti (departure from the port, photos of our pristine room, etc.).

On a kayak I'd think that putting it in a small tupperware container that seals tightly and would float long enough for you to get to it would be good. Or in a very well sealed ziploc. There just is no guaranteed way, I'm sorry to report.

Have a great time!!

I am at the beach all the time. I keep my phone in my beach bag in a pocket. I have an as old as dirt iphone that has been to the beach for years and I have never had trouble with it getting sandy. If I think it is looking hot and bothered, I stick it in a ziplock in the pocket of the cooler (too cold is probably not good either.)

On the boat it goes into a ziplock in my beach bag.

I think as long as you are not digging a hole in the sand and burying it like a bone you are fine. 

we have lifeproof cases for the phone and ipad...and the jackets...one phone is on the bottom next to our boat.

I bought a waterproof pouch/bag at REI. They came as a set, so I have a small one I keep money and the car key in, a medium one for my phone and a larger one for my Kindle.