Gear Reviews 🔦ENO Twilight camp lights 12 May 202518 Sep 2025 As a professional backpacker and kayaker who’s spent countless nights under the stars and paddled through some of the most remote waterways in North America, I’ve learned that the little…
Events & Lectures… 🌸 A Mother’s Strength: Wilderness, Love, and the Woman Beside Me 🌿 11 May 202528 May 2025 ☀️ Before the World Wakes The morning light stretches across our porch. There’s a hush in the palms and the slow breath of another Florida sunrise. My coffee steams.Birdsong hums…
Gear Reviews 🛶 pros and cons of greenland paddle 1 May 20259 May 2025 Outside of being cool and steeped in history there is a logical reason why I sometimes paddle with a Greenland style paddle than an Euro-blade design. The wet surface area…
Florida Kayaking ⛵Charting Confidence: Why Youth Should Dive Into Sea Scouts in Tampa Bay 28 Apr 202525 Apr 2025 As a professional expedition guide and certified kayak safety instructor, I’ve spent years leading people through Florida’s backwaters, mangrove tunnels, and coastal inlets. But some of the most meaningful work…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… 🩹Wilderness First Aid for Kayakers: Be Ready, Not Lucky 23 Apr 202525 Aug 2026 Kayaking offers a gateway to remote, beautiful places—but with that solitude comes responsibility. Out on the water, especially in coastal or backcountry environments, help isn’t minutes away. It could be…
Florida Kayaking 🔦Camp Lights 4 Apr 202324 Apr 2025 Candle light It is challenging to pick my favorite camp light. Candle, battery, solar, iso-butane fuel, oil burning, wood, there are so many choices to brighten up the campsite. My…
Backcountry Kitchen 🥪Reuben sandwich 21 Mar 202321 Mar 2023 Tasty food options are endless with a Snow Peak❄🗻 Gigapower stove and a hot sandwich maker. The results are always yummy 😋⛺ Cooking Tools With the GigaPower stove, on a…
Gear Reviews ⚙️ Marmot Nitro 2P Tent 27 May 202021 Aug 2026 May of 2020 I purchased the Marmot Nitro 2P tent to explore Florida with my seven year-old son on local backpacking trips. The tech specs: - weight two pounds five…
Gear Reviews ⚙️ hammock comfort 29 Jun 201521 Aug 2026 There are many advantages to hammock camping in Florida. Many people think that the heat, humidity, and biting insects are a deterrent to camping. That does not need to be…
Florida Kayaking 🎦 The Summit A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity 5 Feb 20153 Mar 2023 The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity (2009) is a beautiful film. It is a movie that showcases why adventures go beyond the possible and make the improbable a…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… 🩹 Skin ‘tastic thinking First Aid 1 May 201425 Aug 2026 Knowing First Aid is one of the ten essentials that every outdoor enthusiast should know. Survival is about your mind working with skill to live. It's about staying calm in…
Florida Kayaking 🎲 1000 bornes card game 7 Apr 20149 Mar 2023 This past campout Sean introduced me to an old card game 1000 Bornes. This game has existed since 1954 and goes by many names, and there is even a Cars…
Gear Reviews ⚙️ The amazing Tarp 1 Apr 201421 Aug 2026 Shelter is one of the ten essentials that every outdoor enthusiast should have. And a tarp is an easy multi use item for a day hiker, backpacker, trail runner, day…
Kayak Instruction 🏫 Finding your way in the dark Lecture 24 Mar 201420 Aug 2026 Last Thursday night I was unable to navigate my way through the dark to teach with Sean at Osprey Bay Outdoors for our annual third Thursday of the month kayak…
Gear Reviews ⚙️ Mountain Hardwear Skyledge 3 12 Mar 201421 Aug 2026 One of my oldest pieces of gear is my 1997 Mountain Hardwear “Skylight” tent. I love that tent, it has been my best companion on epic backpacking, and kayaking adventures;…