Events & Lectures – Liquid Rhythm Adventures' Journal

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…

Entertainment…

🎃Campfire Tales for Dark Nights: Folklore from the Water

30 Oct 202515 Sep 2025

🔥The Fire’s First Crackle When the October winds sharpen and the mangroves whisper, there is no better place than the glow of a fire. We circle close, cups of hot…

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🎃The Sliding Ones

Night three. Somewhere past Lignumvitae Key, where the chart turns vague and the islands become silhouettes in a still-burning sky. In January of 2009 we were deep into our Florida…

Backcountry Kitchen…

🎃Trail Spirits Pairing: Toasting Halloween Florida style

13 Oct 202510 Oct 2025

There’s a saying I hold onto when the lantern burns low: food feeds the body, but drink feeds the spirit. Out on the trail, or camped in a kayak clearing…

Backcountry Kitchen…

🎃🍏🔥Haunted Apples in the Piney Woods: A Halloween Mess Tin Feast

9 Oct 202515 Sep 2025

Florida does not give us crisp air and falling leaves in October. Instead, we get humidity that lingers like a ghost, palmetto shadows that stretch too far, and the kind…

Community & Adaptive Programs…

🌊⚓ Sea Scouts and Native American Day ⚓🌊

24 Sep 202521 Aug 2026

As Skippers, we have a wonderful opportunity to help our youth connect Scouting’s love of the water with the Native American traditions of voyagers, navigators, and storytellers. This past summer,…

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🌅Labor Day, Paddles, and the Call of the Water

1 Sep 20254 Sep 2025

When I think of Labor Day, I find myself reflecting on this past July's journey. I spent two weeks on a narrowboat threading the locks and channels of the River…

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🌲 A Father’s Rhythm: Living My Ikigai in the Wild and at Home 🌿

12 Jun 202511 Jun 2025

☀️ The Quiet Mornings That Matter Most Some mornings, before the sun stretches over the mangroves and the cicadas begin their song, I sit in stillness—coffee in hand, the rhythm…

Backcountry Kitchen…

🍩 Dutch Oven Donuts for International Donut Day

5 Jun 20254 Jun 2025

Celebrating a sweet piece of history with cast iron and campfire camaraderie Each first Friday of June, we celebrate International Donut Day — a holiday born from the trenches of…

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🌸 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…

🌀 Safety & First Aid…

🏫 Fire warmth plus a whole lot more Lecture

25 Feb 201421 Aug 2026

Last Thursday Sean and I took on Fire "warmth plus a whole lot more”. During the night discussion at Osprey Bay Outdoors we deviled into the beauty, mystery, necessity, and…

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🎉 2013 Calusa Blueways Paddling Festival

23 Sep 201320 Aug 2026

Its official November 1 - 3, 2013 Sean Fitzgibbon and Jeff Fabiszewski are guest speakers at the 2013 Calusa Blueways Paddling Festival. The teaching line up is: Cutting Through the…

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Tribal Tides 1 – “Whats a Calusa?”

23 Jun 201121 Aug 2026

As promised paddlers/readers post #1 in the series Tribal Tides, and now on with the post. Whats a Calusa? Pronounced "kah-LOO-sah", and sometimes spelled Caloosa; as in Caloosahatchee River (which means…

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Great Calusa Blueways Expedition : Floating on Tribal Tides!!

17 Jun 201121 Aug 2026

Raatatatat-Rata-Tatat-Ratatat-Ratatatat-Tatatatat-Ratatatat-Tatatatat-Tatatatatat- (drum roll) - Jeff & Sean are proud to announce an upcoming 2 week paddling expedition to the Great Calusa Blueway Paddling Trail in Lee County, Florida. The trail…

Community & Adaptive Programs…

kayaking with a toddler

5 Jun 201121 Aug 2026

Kayaking is fun. And when a Dad can share the outdoors with their child, laughter will quickly follow. The weather is warm and more conducive to getting kids out onto…