Jeff Fabiszewski – Liquid Rhythm Kayaking

🌀 Safety & First Aid…

October Shopping for Wilderness First Aid: Makeup, Props, and Realistic Practice

22 Oct 202621 Oct 2026

It's October, and this is a good time to go shopping for Wilderness First Aid training supplies. Costume stores fill their shelves with theatrical blood, bruise makeup, and wound effects…

Florida Kayaking

Kayaking the Caloosahatchee: W. P. Franklin Lock and Our 2011 Portage

Where a river journey met its first obstacleOn September 19, 2011, Sean Fitzgibbon and I began our Great Calusa Blueway expedition from Caloosahatchee Regional Park near Alva, Florida. We were…

Backcountry Kitchen…

The Black Bag in Every Kayak

What a Maine paddling trip taught about taking care of business A companion to my Maine tastic story of our five day paddle in Muscongus Bay. There are things people…

Florida Kayaking

Before You Sell the Adventure, Learn What the Boat Can Do

8 Oct 20268 Oct 2026

Some of the most important lessons in kayaking begin long before a customer purchases a boat. They begin when an instructor takes that same boat onto the water and discovers…

Community & Adaptive Programs…

From Sail to Paddle: A Sea Scout’s Guide to Planning a Kayaking Long Cruise

10 Sep 202613 Oct 2026

The Boat Gets Smaller. The Responsibility Gets Bigger. A Sea Scout who has stood watch, plotted courses, handled lines, interpreted weather, and completed a sailing cruise already understands much of…

🌀 Safety & First Aid…

🩹 SOAP Narrative: The Bite He Ignored

14 Jul 202627 Oct 2026

A Brown Recluse Spider Bite, Delayed Reporting, and Evacuation During a Two Week Everglades Kayak Expedition "In wilderness medicine, the patient rarely gets into trouble all at once. Trouble arrives…

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🩹 The Sting That Wouldn’t Stop

30 Jun 202627 Oct 2026

SOAP Narrative for Wilderness First Aid When Florida's Smallest Wilderness Hazard Has the Biggest Attitude "When definitive care is an hour away or more, you are in the wilderness." When…

🌀 Safety & First Aid…

🩹 Florida Summer Hypothermia: The Kayaker Everyone Thought Had Heat Exhaustion

16 Jun 202627 Oct 2026

A SOAP Narrative for Wilderness First Aid When definitive care is an hour away or more, you are in the wilderness. A week ago while teaching a Wilderness First Aid…

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🩹🌊 A SOAP Narrative for Wilderness First Aid — Multiple Trauma, Distraction Injury, and Chest Wall Emergency

11 Apr 202627 Oct 2026

A SOAP Performance Script for WFA — Ankle Dislocation Primary / Wrist, Hand, Shoulder & Elbow / Flail Chest Discovery Last / Aquatic Environment "Everything Hurts — But Not Everything…

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🩹A SOAP Narrative for Wilderness First Aid – Closed Wounds

4 Apr 202627 Oct 2026

🏕️ "Murphy's Worst Day on the Trail" Here's a SOAP* story written for a Wilderness First Aid, WFA, audience. This is a medically grounded, narrative-driven story. This is designed to…

Florida Kayaking…

Your Pack Weighs Nothing… Your Kayak Weighs Everything

26 Mar 202624 Mar 2026

A Scout's First 3-Day / 2-Night Kayak Camping Adventure in Florida The Moment Everything Changed It was Day Two of a Sea Scout training passage somewhere south of Gulfport when…

Rekindling Transcendentalist Wilderness

Unity in Solitude: What the Wild Teaches About Society

2 Mar 202626 May 2025

Alone, but Not Lonely 🌌 There’s a kind of silence in the wild that settles into your bones.The fire’s low. The stars are sharp.And it’s just you… and everything. Out…

Rekindling Transcendentalist Wilderness

Embodied Existence: Learning from the Land

2 Feb 202626 May 2025

You Don’t Just Walk in the Wild—It Walks You 🥾 The first thing to go soft is your feet.Not the skin—your stride. That hurried, heavy, hard-pavement stomp starts to shift.The…

Rekindling Transcendentalist Wilderness

The Healing Wild: Nature as Medicine for Modern Malaise

5 Jan 202626 May 2025

The Wild Waits for No One—but Welcomes Everyone ⛰️ Somewhere past the last cell tower, past the hum of highways and headlines, the wild waits. No judgment. No agenda. Just…

Events & Lectures…

Beard Care – shopping

8 Dec 20256 Oct 2025

Gift-Ready Shopping Notes Bar Soap: Cold Brew Cleanse: coffee-kissed skin that stays soft and smooth, even after long days outdoors. Shampoo: Pine Tar Shampoo: cleanses deeply, calms the skin, and…