Primitive Camping by Kayak looks at how traveling by water changes the way you plan routes, pack gear, and choose campsites. This episode breaks down why kayaks are practical tools for reaching remote camps and how river travel forces discipline, intentional packing, and smarter camp decisions.
In this episode of the Primitive Camping and Bushcraft Podcast, Chris Speir breaks down why kayaks are one of the most overlooked tools in primitive camping.
This is not about extreme whitewater or stunt paddling. It is about using waterways the way people always have to move gear, reach remote camps, and think differently about access. Rivers and lakes become highways, and a kayak becomes a working tool rather than a toy.
Chris shares real experience kayak camping on Black Creek in Mississippi and at Shepherd State Park, covering how kayak travel changes the way you plan routes, pack gear, and select campsites. He explains why kayak camping forces discipline, how it reshapes your gear choices, and why dry bags, load balance, and route planning matter.
The episode also connects outdoor skills with stewardship, drawing a parallel between caring for your gear and Paul’s careful transport of resources in the book of Acts. Whether you paddle, hike, or drive in, the lesson is the same. Plan ahead. Secure your load. Carry what serves the mission.
If you are interested in primitive camping, bushcraft, or finding new ways to reach quiet places off the beaten path, this episode will give you a practical framework for kayak based camping without fluff or hype.
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Welcome to the Primitive
Camping and Bushcraft Podcast.
I'm your host, Chris Speir.
So here we're gonna talk about gear,
red and the kind of stories
you only get around a fire.
It's all about learning, adapting
and keeping your faith strong.
So whether you're a seasoned outdoorsman
or just looking to unplug and reconnect,
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So pull up a chair by the
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All right, welcome back to 2026.
So I think last year I started back
the last week of January.
And this year is getting close,
but it's not quite as late.
But anyway, welcome back
to the Primitive Camping
and Bushcraft Podcast.
And man, let me tell you,
I've had a good time over the past month
and I have really enjoyed the time off.
I took a break and just really relaxed
and did some reflecting
and all that good stuff.
So we got a lot of stuff happening,
a lot of stuff's going on.
And I got some videos in
the works and the group,
oh man, the Facebook group is just
exploding right now.
We went from the week before Christmas,
it was 7,200 and something.
And now it's 11,500 in
just a couple of weeks.
I mean, that's crazy.
And if you can't tell from the video,
I am actually sitting
right next to the fire pit
getting smoked out and it is very smoky.
It's supposed to get cold here in a
little while right now.
It's a little warm, but yeah,
it was a huge boost to the group.
And we got a lot of folks in there,
a lot of new folks, a lot of new names.
We got people that's really
joining into the conversation.
A lot of stuff is
going on, a lot of photos.
I got some people getting
all disgruntled and leaving,
but oh well, that's what it is.
It's not for everybody.
And if you are
looking for a place to come
and show your pictures and talk about
primitive camping in Bushcraft, come on.
Primitive camping in
Bushcraft on the Facebook group
and go ahead and
swing by Amazon right now.
Hey, this is coming out February 3rd,
the Kindle version or the digital version
is coming out February 3rd.
The Primitive Camping in Bushcraft book.
And that's what this
podcast is based off of.
That's what the entire
Primitive Camping in Bushcraft
group on Facebook is based off of.
So swing by, pick you up a
copy while it's still on sale.
And anyway, let's get into today's topic.
And I figured that Dave Smith and I,
if you follow us on the
Primitive Camping group,
you'll see Dave is,
he's one of the moderator,
mentor or admin guys.
And he and I go camping a lot.
And starting last year, well really,
yeah, last year or so,
we really started doing
a lot of kayak camping.
And well, year four last actually.
We did some kayak
camping, went down Black Creek
here in Mississippi and
we, in the middle of August,
ain't that right, Dave?
I think it was August.
But he taught me into it
against my better judgment.
(laughing) Now the truth comes out.
Now it was hot and it
was a very hot trip,
but you know what, we had a blast.
We had a real good time.
It was very hot, but we
got to cool off in the water
and we hung some hammocks up.
He had his hammock
and I had the night cat,
night cat lay flat hammock, set it up.
And it was just hot,
but it was still fun.
We still had a blast.
And sometimes you can
have a good time camping
with no purpose.
I mean, really, what's the
purpose of going camping?
Just to go relax and just
recharge your batteries.
And that's what we did.
So this topic really came up naturally
because I saw a post about
it on our primitive camping
and bushcraft group on Facebook,
where someone posted a
picture of their kayak
with their camping gear in the back.
And it triggered
something in me to go ahead
and discuss something like this
because not everybody has a kayak,
not everybody has a boat, not everybody,
not everybody primitive camps the way
that we primitive camp
or practice as bushcraft,
not everybody's the same.
And that's what's the
beautiful thing about this group
that we come together
as a bunch of people
that know that our
skills are not all the same.
And, but yet we are all meshed together
and people learn, people teach, you know?
But I saw a post on Facebook
and it really
triggered something inside me
to do an episode about it on the podcast.
And if you're
watching the video, you know,
you're seeing me sit out and I just,
I'm gonna be sitting out in
a different location today.
I've tried to do something
different with the sunlight,
but when we get out
into the great outdoors,
how do you get to where you're going?
That is the question.
The thing about a kayak is that
it changes how you think about access.
It changes how you get
to where you're going
and what you're doing.
Most kayaks are not powered.
Now, Vibe Kayaks
contacted me here for last
and sent me two kayaks to do
videos on on spare outdoors.
And I've been doing videos
on them almost every month,
as often as I can, as
often as I can get out there
and trying to do a real
good job for them guys
to post some videos.
And dude, I've had some doozies.
I've had some videos
that were very boring,
but it turned out to be funny
because of the stuff that happened.
You know, we went down
the river, my brother and I,
we got down the river, but
the river was a little too high
and we could not get back up the river.
It was, the current was too strong.
And I had a pedal, a pedal drive on mine.
He had a paddle on the other one.
I took out the riot Mako.
He took out the shear water and we get up
down to where we're going.
No problem going down.
It was just coming back up the river,
which is the hardest part.
The hardest part
because man, let me tell you,
that was a chore.
And if you want to work
out, that is a workout.
We had a, we met an
individual that he drug us back
to the boat launch.
And I think I talked
about this last year,
whenever we were after
it happened, but you know,
a kayak actually changes
the way you're going to get
to where you're going
and what you're doing.
You have to think it
through how you're going to do it.
You know, most of the time,
if you're going down a river
or something like that,
you're going to drop it off,
go down the river, and then you'll be
picked up down there
and then come back and get another
vehicle or do whatever.
And like Dave and I,
when we went to Black Creek,
we drove to a certain
spot, left the vehicle there
and then drove 18, 20 miles up and
dropped off the kayaks
and then came back down.
Now, actually one trip was
18, the other trip was eight.
And I think we did the
eight mile trip, but still,
we were taking our
time fishing and it took,
it took two days to do it.
So we dropped the boats off.
We got in, I mean, we
dropped the truck off.
We got all the way up
there, got in the boats
and then went downstream.
The water was kind of low on this trip.
We had to get out, we had to
drag the boats a little bit.
And then we got down to the,
a place that was good
enough for a camping spot.
And that is what, you
know, the real use of the kayak
is really, really
comes in because, you know,
I have a 12 foot kayak,
the sheer water, which is,
it's stable and it is, it cuts through
the water pretty good,
pretty quick.
If you're lake fishing,
I have the riot kayak,
which has a pedal drive.
And, you know, we're going
to get into some of the other
experiences I've had, but
it's got the pedal drive
and you just pedal that
dude around and like a bicycle
on the water all day.
And you got this little knob
down on the right hand side.
You turn left, turn right.
And man, let me tell
you, that thing is cool.
That thing is cool.
When you get out there on
that water and you're just
pedaling around, it is
cool to be out there.
And literally it's cooler
on the water than it is.
Anywhere else, a lot of
people argue with that and say,
no, it's hotter on the
water, but you know, it's,
it's cool on the water, especially
towards the evening time
the sun starts going down and all the
shadows start kicking in.
And it is awesome.
But the boat that I
particularly choose is the riot,
the Mako, riot Mako.
Dude, I'm telling you,
that thing is amazing.
It's got enough room to haul all my gear.
Anywhere I want has a
pedal drive with it.
And, you know, I'm not
trying to sell anything.
I'm just, you know,
trying to describe it to you,
what I use and the, the extra length is pretty cool
because it just cuts through.
It's the same length
as a flat bottom boat,
like a John boat, and it's 14 feet long.
It handles the wind a
little bit better than the,
than the 12 footer.
And it is, it is a little bit wider.
It's more stable, you know,
I don't have to worry about,
I could take Ranger, Ranger
will jump in the water and swim
and he climb into the back of
the boat and jump in and out
as he pleases, you
know, that dog's a nut.
So once you start
thinking of kayaks as not toys
and you start looking
at them as a vehicle
to get you to where you're
going, it changes things.
Most people, when they think kayaks,
they see these videos of
these extreme kayakers in Alaska,
like going down waterfalls and, you know,
I'm not that brave.
I am not that brave to drop a,
jump a waterfall in a kayak
and, and I'm not going to do it.
So it's, it's not that kind of kayaking.
And I'm not on that kind
of a river whenever I'm,
I'm saying I'm going
somewhere to go camping
or perimeter camping.
Some people do it.
I'm not that guy.
I am not that guy.
I'm just going to let
everybody know right now.
I am not it.
So what we enjoy about it
and, and Dave and I really enjoy
taking our kayaks, going
down a river and finding a spot.
Now when you're kayaking,
it's a little bit different
because you have to,
you have to really
search out a spot to camp
because the, depending on the river,
depending on where you're at,
you got your, your bank,
which you could be steep.
It could be a steady slope.
It could gradually come down.
And we have to really
search out a spot to camp.
Now, I don't know,
maybe five or six times
we got out of the boat and
we'd walk around and look
and see if we could find
something to, to camp in.
And, you know, and that was
over all the trips we've been,
but it, you still have to search it out.
Now, once I do, I usually
bring my GPS with me on my phone
and I'll mark it.
And so we go down and
next time we'll come back
to the same spot and camp
there because if we like it
and it's a good camping
spot, why reinvent the wheel?
You know, that's the way I look at it.
You ain't got to keep
reinventing everything
and keep going back and
redoing the same old thing
every time whenever
you can find a good spot.
You know, it has plenty of firewood.
You know, has good access to the water
so you can make your drinking water.
And you just go ahead and go for it.
Plenty of trees to hang a hammock.
So the, the reason I feel like primitive,
that kayaks belong with a primitive
camping conversation
is because water is and was,
and always has been the original highway.
You think about it,
people will get on rivers
and go upstream and
downstream do whatever.
So before roads,
before they have vehicles,
before they had trails,
people move goods by the water
and it was efficient.
And dude, we, I
was like,
"Oh, I'm gonna go get a water." And we built an entire
country off of waterways
until the railroad was built.
And once the railroad was built,
then it was game over for then.
But it was quiet.
It allowed for heavy
loads to travel further
and less time and with less strain.
So we didn't have to
use so many horses or oxen
or whatever it is to haul stuff.
A kayak lets you bypass obstacles
and a lot of these kinds of obstacles
could stop
backpackers, people that's hiking,
you know, going through private land or
something like that.
You could still, you
could still go down a waterway
in a kayak, whether it's
private land or public land.
It doesn't matter as long as it is
navigable, you can go.
And it doesn't matter the terrain,
the steep terrain.
Now it does in like
places where you got the rapids
and stuff like that,
because all that is
is underwater terrain.
You move and you can
go straight to places
that were beyond reach if you're walking.
Now, there's a place on the Black Creek
that we love to camp
out close to a sandbar.
And I've talked about it
several times here on the podcast
that you get in your kayak, you go down,
you pull up to the sandbar,
and then there's an embankment,
a little bit of an
embankment, and you go up that,
and then it's all flat
and it's all hardwood trees
and it's perfectly spaced for hammocks.
And it's like, hey, you
get out of your kayak,
you walk up the hill and it's like,
oh, the angels start singing.
Oh, there it is, Johnny.
So I recently saw
someone paddle across the lake
and they camped overnight.
And that really made
me wanna talk about it
here on this podcast.
And so kayaks, if you
own one, if you have one,
how do you load it down?
Now, this is not
gonna apply to everybody.
This is a real niche item
within a niche category,
but kayaks lets you
carry more and lets you,
you don't have to backpack,
it's kind of like a
four-wheeler of the water,
but it also forces you discipline.
Now, whether you have a kayak,
whether you don't have a
kayak, here is the deal.
You load your gear in this kayak
and you know it's a one-way
trip to where you're going.
How are you gonna think about your gear?
Is it gonna cause you
to rethink what you pack?
Is it gonna cause you to
really, really deeply think
about what you pack with you,
what kind of gear you're gonna bring?
For me, it really changed
my mind about my backpack.
I went from a 35, 40
liter, 50 liter backpack
to a waterproof bag, a
waterproof duffel bag.
I forget the name brand of this thing,
but it's just like that
heavy duty rubberized canvas,
I guess, that you fold over
a couple of times, clip it,
and then your stuff is
waterproof inside there.
Now, I started using that
when I get onto the kayak
because I don't want all my clothes,
and you know, right now being January,
with us kayaking here recently,
I don't want all my clothes and
everything to get wet
and not have a change of
clothes and have some hypothermia.
And so it teaches you how to really pack
and consider different things
that you're gonna take with you
to head out in the great outdoors.
Hey, there it is again, Clay.
I said the great outdoors.
It makes him think of that movie,
the great outdoors every time.
But he's one of our
members of the primitive camp
in the Bushcraft group.
So, but once you get outside,
you get down to where you're going,
and you're heading down that river,
are you thinking about,
is the gear that I
brought gonna be sufficient?
Or did I screw up and not
bring what I really needed?
Now, if you've been out into the woods,
it doesn't matter if you went kayaking,
if you went by a four-wheeler,
if you go by a boat,
or if you hike in or whatever,
most people have their gear down pat
to what they're gonna bring
and what they're gonna use.
But some folks will not know,
especially people that are
just beginning and starting.
And that's what we're all about
is the people that's
beginning and starting
and trying to help
people and encourage them
that it does not matter.
You might make a wrong
choice every once in a while,
but there's no wrong way to do something.
And just encourage them.
Now, camping from a kayak
changes how you choose your site.
You gotta read the land from the water,
and a lot of times you can't see that.
And so what I was saying a while ago
was stopping, getting
out, going up the embankment,
looking to see, and
then get back in the kayak,
because you didn't like
that one, going on down,
and then going and finding something,
and then it's starting to get dark,
and then you're like, "Oh, I should've
went back to the other one."
You paddle upstream for a little while,
and you're exhausted by
the time you get there.
So it really makes you think
about how you find your camp.
You're looking for clean landings.
You're looking for gentle slopes.
You're looking for the
high ground in case it rains
and the water comes up.
You're looking for trees
close enough for shelter,
but not overhanging with dead limbs,
you know, the Widowmaker
thing and stuff like that.
Now, that's a whole different discussion.
We're gonna do a whole episode on
Widowmakers in the future.
So you're thinking about wind direction
and water rise overnight.
Now, a lot of times, if you
know there's not a lot of rain
or anything coming, the
water ain't gonna come up.
But you also need to
keep it in your mind.
In the event that it does,
how high is it gonna come up?
And you want to go ahead
and get your camp set up
normally how you normally would.
Primitive camping from the
water forces you to plan ahead
instead of reacting.
And that's a lot of
people will plan their trip
before they get out there.
If you go out into the
woods without a plan,
something's wrong.
You need to know at
least where you're gonna be,
a generalized area, the
weather patterns, the temperature,
the is it gonna rain
in the next four days
that I'm gonna be gone, stuff like that.
You need to know that.
Now, when you're on the water,
your gear really does matter.
Everything's got to be secured.
And this is where I was
talking about that backpack.
So everything's got to be
able to tolerate moisture
to a certain degree.
And dry bags, dry bags are
a huge, huge, huge thing.
You're gonna need a dry
bag if you're going on.
I mean, you don't have
to have it, but excuse me.
You don't have to have it,
but a dry bag really does help.
And you're gonna worry about
your cutting tools, your fire,
your shelter, your metal containers,
and whatever kind of cordage or whatnot,
your five Cs, I guess.
But how you pack it is gonna change
because you don't want
everything to get all soaking
and drenched.
Heavy items are gonna
stay low and centered.
Fire kit and your first aid kit,
if you're bringing one to those,
I highly recommend
bringing a first aid kit with you
whenever you go out
into the great outdoors.
Shelter stays quick to deploy.
You got a plan on the weather.
You got to know about
what the weather's doing.
Is it gonna be moving faster?
And when you get out in open water,
it seems like it is a magnet for bad
weather or lightning.
Every time I get into the
water and it's like a cloud
in the sky, there's gonna be
lightning striking somewhere.
And that goes all the way back
to pre-parameter
camping and bushcraft days.
My fishing days as a 10-8 teenager,
me and my buddies would get out there
and we would start fishing.
And boy, would it start raining.
And we'd just say,
"Ah, we're gonna catch us
"some fishing to rain."
And so on, sure enough,
the bass would turn on
and we would tear them up.
And then so would the lightning turn on.
You talk about scared.
Ain't nothing worse
than hiding from lightning
underneath the pine tree.
A pine tree is nothing
more than a lightning rod.
So when you get out into the woods,
you need to understand
the weather patterns.
You need to know what the
weather's gonna be doing
while you're out there camping.
Now, Dave and I get out into the woods
and we set up our camp.
And we've done it several
times now and it's really fun.
And I've done several videos
of it on Spear Out the Oar,
so if you haven't, check it out.
But our most recent one, we
went to Shepherd State Park
right down here in South Mississippi.
And that place is beautiful.
They have hiking
trails all over the place.
They got three and four
and seven mile hiking trails
all over the place down there.
And then they got the waterways
where you get into the
water and you go all the way out
to the Pascagoula River.
And then, I mean, there's
all kinds of stuff down there
and the place is beautifully kept.
I mean, beautifully.
I've been to a lot of state parks
that always look like the
rundown, out of budget, no money.
And the state parks seem
like they're always leftover
afterthoughts, after all
the budget of the year.
The state parks are always
afterthoughts, but not this one.
This one, dude, let
me tell you right now,
I will be back to that one.
And David's the one that recommended it.
And we said, yeah,
let's go, let's try it.
Let's see what we're gonna do.
And we went down there and I used a,
we used a 10 foot by 10
foot by 10 foot pop-up shelter,
like a pop-up canopy,
but it had side walls.
And it was 25, six degrees,
something to that effect that night.
And I mean, it was pretty cold.
And so we had a buddy
heater inside the tent.
And the only thing I
didn't have was a fan
to blow the heat rises, you know,
but we did not freeze
this time and slept on a cot.
And it was good times, man.
We just sat around the fire.
We ate some steaks, burned a couple of
steaks on the grill,
had some, I make us a little
dish at home on the barbecue
for my beautiful bride.
And it's oysters and shrimp and with,
with asparagus and let's see,
Parmesan cheese and a
little bit of garlic butter
and some mushrooms.
And man, I covered that
thing with Parmesan cheese
on the top and I'll put
the moistures and everything
on there and I'll just grill it down.
Son, it was good.
It was good.
And we use that as a steak topper.
Man, it was a triple good.
And I really enjoyed that.
I really enjoyed that meal.
It was a real good meal,
but I'm pretty sure Dave is
gonna be commenting on that
because it was a pretty good meal.
And it was 10 out of 10.
Dave, highly recommend.
(laughs) But anyway, so we get, we get down there,
we set up our tent or set up the camp
and we just sit around
and talk in all night long,
and then the next morning
we got up, we had breakfast.
And then we went kayaking in the canals
till we got all the way
out to the Pascagoula River.
And the tide was out because this river
is gonna be tidally controlled.
So the low tide, the water's down,
high tide, the water's up tight.
But it was still good times.
And I still learned a lot about that.
And some of our other trips,
by the time we get
down to where we're going,
the boat has either took on some water
or before I started using a dry bag,
I had a bag that was a dry
bag, but it punctured a hole.
I tried to keep it wet.
I mean, keep it dry.
It was a, it had my camera
and stuff like that in there.
And the camera
punctured a hole in the side
and it was in a compartment and that
compartment got wet.
And luckily, you know, the
camera did not get ruined,
but it still would
have been a possibility
it could have happened.
So we get to the point
and I had that
precious cargo of my camera
going down the river.
And I mean, we're
talking about Sony FX30,
you know, a decent price camera.
And that's what I was using to film
all the Spirit Outdoors videos with.
And so on the way down there,
I was using the GoPro,
not thinking nothing of it
because, you know, it's in a dry bag,
but when I get there
and that's when I realized
that a hole was punctured in it.
So that gives me a segue
into what we're going into next,
talking about how
Paul in the book of Acts,
Paul and he was going back to Jerusalem.
He wanted to be there by the day of
Pentecost, you know,
and this is in chapter 22 and 21
and in a 21 beginning of 22.
And so he is going back to Jerusalem
and he's wanting to actually get there
for the day of Pentecost,
but what he's carrying
with him is all the tithes,
all the money, all the
offerings back to the church
in Jerusalem.
And he's showing that
the Gentile churches
all throughout Asia Minor,
Asia Minor or whatever it is,
and they would support the
church back in Jerusalem.
And, you know, this
wasn't a symbolic given.
It was real resources.
It was real money.
It was real supplies.
It was real stuff, you know,
the economic value is close to either
$500,000 or $1 million.
It was a bunch of
silver and stuff like that.
You know, a lot of
historians have recounted that,
but Paul references it
clearly in Romans 15.
He gives instructions in 1 Corinthians 16
and he spends entire
chapters in 2 Corinthians
talking about the
accountability and the stewardship.
And when you're on your kayak
and you're heading out
into the great outdoors,
there we are again, Clay,
but when you're on your kayak
and you're heading out
into the great outdoors,
you were stewarding, you
were taking close care,
very good care of all
your gear on that boat.
And the reason why is
because you don't want it
to come up disappeared.
You don't want it to come
up falling over, falling off.
You're gonna secure the load.
And whenever he was
transporting all this money
with all this value back to Jerusalem
to present it to the church, you know,
he made sure it was secure.
And that's what we
gotta do with everything.
We don't just blindly rush
in and throw our stuff down
and just go out
because they say, you know,
if you brought an ax,
it can fly overboard.
And if you brought
gear, it can fly overboard,
stuff like that.
So Paul wasn't just moving
goods to prove his toughness.
And that's what we don't need to do
is to prove our toughness.
We can just throw stuff
in the back of a kayak,
head on down and blah, blah, blah.
We need to secure our stuff.
We always need to make
sure our stuff is secure
and we need to be good
stewards of the stuff
that we do have.
So kayak camping
teaches us to be good stewards
with our gear and how we pack our stuff
and how we get, how
we look for campsites.
And it teaches us how to
navigate down the river
or down the lake or
wherever we're going to go.
It teaches us differently
than if you were just hiking in
or if you were just
taking an ATV in or OTV
or whatever you wanna call it.
And you were taking a four
wheel drive or a jeeping in
or you're over landing or whatever.
So you don't paddle randomly.
You choose your route,
you balance your load,
you protect your
vessel and you carry only
what serves the mission.
And what serves the mission for us
when we're going primitive
camping is all of our gear,
our food and water filters and such.
Unless you don't bring water filters,
you bring just regular water.
So, but that's gonna be
heavy even for a kayak,
that's heavy.
A kayak is not about
convenience, it's about purpose.
A lot of people use a kayak for fun.
Yeah, it's fun, but
there's a purpose for it.
Are you going fishing?
Are you going camping?
Are you going paddling?
Are you going to spend time
with your kids having fun?
You know, stuff like that.
It is not, it is a tool.
Ultimately, when it comes down to it,
a kayak is a tool to get
you to where you need it to go
and to do what you need to do.
When you get out into the
great outdoors in your kayak
or whatever your transportation is
or whatever you're gonna do,
take the time to think about your routes,
think of time, take
the time to think about
how you're gonna get
to point A to point B,
what you're gonna do.
This was about, the kayak,
I really, I had just a couple
of things bullet pointed here
and the rest of it's
just off the top of my head.
But I really feel like
kayaks are an underutilized item
when it comes to camping,
primitive camping at least.
That it's a lot of fun.
If you have a place where you can go down
through a national
forest or something like that,
like we do here in South Mississippi,
you get dropped off
in the national forest
and just kayaked down the
river and get picked up.
Now, dude, that is fun.
I'm not gonna lie, it's fun.
And I highly recommend it.
And I'm gonna be going here
in a couple of months again.
And I'm looking forward to
actually taking the kayak
and going somewhere
else and doing something
of that nature.
But we're gonna see how that works out.
Hey, I hope you enjoyed this one, man.
Look, head on over to Amazon,
pick up a copy of
primitive camping in Bushcraft.
You can get it at Walmart,
any of your major retailers,
any major retailer online.
They even got them in the bookstores,
Books A Million, Barnes
and Noble, all that stuff.
All these major places
that's sitting on the shelf
right next to you, Bushcraft 101.
And just go ahead and pick you up a copy.
Go ahead and get the
Kindle version as well.
And go ahead and join the Facebook,
the group, primitive
camping in Bushcraft on Facebook.
Go ahead and join and get in there
and start having a conversation with us.
I'm telling you, I am firing off in the
comments all the time.
I get engaged with all these folks.
If you leave a picture or something,
I like it and comment on
it, just to let you know.
So hey, I hope you enjoyed it.
And happy 2026.
I'll see you next time.
And remember, in all your ways,
acknowledge him and he
will direct your paths.
Thanks for sitting
around the fire with me today.
If this episode gave you
something to think about,
if it helped you feel a
little bit more prepared
or it even stirred your faith a tiny bit,
go ahead and share it with someone else
who might need it as well.
We don't go camping
to run away from life.
We come out here to
slow down and to recharge.
So grab another law,
throw it on the fire,
and remember this.
In all your ways, acknowledge him
and he will direct your path.
I'll see you next time.
God bless you.