🌀 Safety & First Aid… 🩹 SOAP Narrative: The Bite He Ignored 14 Jul 202625 Aug 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…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… 🩹 The Sting That Wouldn’t Stop 30 Jun 202625 Aug 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 202625 Aug 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…
Kayak Instruction ACA BCU instructor 4 Mar 201020 Aug 2026 Warning not all shops have trained instructors. I am not going to rat anyone out but there is a reason why I am writing this post. I wanted to bring…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… Lower back pain verses the kayak 17 Nov 200921 Aug 2026 In six weeks we will be paddling the Suwannee River. And the question from our friends is "Jeff...Sean how is the back?" The answer is "today it is good" :)…
Kayak Instruction Rolling always looses against the perfect brace 15 Sep 200921 Aug 2026 The last few weeks I have been working with a guest that wanted to learn how to roll their kayak. It is always interesting to learn why someone wants to…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… Good Training, Happy Ending! 12 Aug 200921 Aug 2026 Hi Fellow Paddlers, Its been a very busy week in the world of news and info!!(Sun. Aug. 9th). I just wanted to drop this quick blog in about a 15…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… 🛶Kayaking at night: Gear 28 Jun 200921 Aug 2026 Retailers lure us in and then try to brainwash us into purchasing their flashy inventory. The reality is that we do not need a lot of fancy stuff to stay…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… 🛶 Kayaking at night: Caution 23 Jun 200921 Aug 2026 There is one reality to paddling at night. A kayak is nearly invisible on the water. A trained powerboat captain traveling on smooth water at a safe cursing speed on…
Florida Kayaking 🛶 Kayaking at Night: Search’in for Urchin! 18 Jun 20099 Mar 2023 Whoo Hoo Everyone! I have been so busy paddling and enjoying life,that its been awhile since I have done a post!! Sorry. Well I'm gonna jump right in then. The…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… 🛶 Kayaking at night: seeing in the dark 13 Jun 200921 Aug 2026 My friends and I have paddled a lot of the water with in a thirty minute drive of my home. I know these waters well. I have paddled them on…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… Slip-Slop-Slap: Sun Safety 1 Jun 200921 Aug 2026 June is UV Safety Month. In 1981, the Cancer Council Victoria gave birth to a seagull named Sid. Sid is the popular figure that promotes how to reduce sun exposure…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… Weather Cocking, Icebreaker, and Paddling 20 May 200921 Aug 2026 Jeff Cooper of H2Outfiffers shared with me a simple analogy to explain weather cocking. A common definition of weather cocking is that “a boat moving forward points into strong winds”.…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… National Safe Boating Week 15 May 200921 Aug 2026 People who use the water call the vests that they wear by many names. Some of the names for these water vests are: personal flotation device, buoyancy aid, and life…
🌀 Safety & First Aid… Paddlers sometimes take avoidable risks: kayak safety 10 May 200921 Aug 2026 I have read Backpacker Magazine for more than a decade. "Backpacker Magazine is an American publication whose mission is to provide readers with practical information on wilderness hiking and adventure.…
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