A salt water marsh can be an excellent place to find wildlife. Whether its fishing, hiking, camping, boat riding or nature photography – these marshes can be a good place to get away from it all.
Also, a salt water marsh is a good place for local fisherman, crabbers, and duck hunters to get a taste of the local wildlife. Be sure to check local regulations before taking any game animals from the marsh or surrounding waters.
Some of the local wildlife that lives in these types of marshes include raccoons, crawfish, crabs, red fish, crooker, opossums, alligators, snakes and lots of bugs.
Some wild animals and birds eat the Yaupon Holly, but the berries cause vomiting in humans. The latin name is Ilex vomitoria. Anything that has “vomit” in the name should be avoided. From the information that has been found on this plant, the berries are not poisonous – its an overload of caffine that causes the vomiting. The dried leaves can be boiled into a tea, but drink in moderation.
What really makes a day pack? Some people seem to think that a day pack is just a school book bag that hiking gear can be carried in. While other groups think that day packs need to be expensive packs so that tons of gear can be carried. The truth is, a day pack is what the hiker wants it to be.
While on the hiking on a trail, or in a wilderness area – the type of gear carried varies for each person and terrain where they are hiking. If someone was hiking on flat terrain, there is no need for mountain climbing equipment. Regardless of where someone is going, there is some basic equipment that should be considered. There is no exact, one fits all, master check list. The best these list can do is give ideas on what other hikers carry.
Around 1993 or 1994 the time had come to get rid of the 3 and 4 man tents. When a man is young he pays little attention to weight, because he is “tough” and can carry that load. When a little age gets behind him, little things start becoming more clear. One of the questions that presents itself, why should one person be strapped with carrying an oversized tent, when everyone can carry their weight and their own tent.
While on a trip to Academy Sports and outdoors, there was a certain Wenzel Starlite one man tent on the shelf. After further inspection the decision was made to buy the tent and give it a test run.
In March of 2008 two of my 2 children, aged 11 and 13 each received a coleman tasman X32 mummy sleeping bag as a gift. The sleeping bag was suppose to help prepare them for an upcoming cool weather camping trip. The point of the trip was to expose the kids to cool weather, but not really cold “below freezing” weather. The over night temps were supposed to get into the upper 30s. And since we had sleeping bags with a comfort rating of 32 degrees and liner, I thought we would be well prepared.
On the morning of March 9th, my daughter Kristian who was 11 at the time, and my son Korey who was 13 at the time headed out to a region of Piney woods in east Texas. “Piney woods” is a term used to describe an area with a lot of pine trees. After parking my Toyota 4-wheel drive truck at the end of an old logging road the kids and I hiked for about 20 – 30 minutes to a small stream. The camping spot had been picked months ahead of time due to its location close to moving water.
The stream was not too wide or deep, at the most it was about 2 feet across and about 4 inches deep. The stream was to be used as a source of water for cooking or drinking, just in case we used all of the water in our bottles.
The original design for the Katadyn hiker belonged to PUR. The PŪR brand was created by Recovery Engineering, Inc. which was sold to Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 1999 for approximately $213 million.
The PŪR outdoor products line was sold to Katadyn USA in 2004. P&G maintained the household products and continues to manufacture and sell them. PUR was one of the premier makers of outdoor water filters until their outdoor line was sold in 2004.
One thing that made PUR filters stand out was that some of them came with Iodine made into the filter. As the water was moved through the filter, Iodine would break away from the filter and mix with the water. This would kill any viruses or bacteria that were able to pass through the filter. The filters ability to kill any bacteria or viruses made it into a purifier. As anyone with any real outdoor experience knows, a purifier is better then a filter. The draw back to this design, the water had an Iodine taste to it. Using a charcoal filter may have helped remove the Iodine taste from the water.
Every field first aid kit should have a pair of fine pointed tweezers. These special tweezers serve a dual purpose roll – they are good for removing small splinters and for tick removal.
It is very important that the tick not be crushed while being removed. If the tick is crushed, there is a chance that the fluids from the tick will be injected under the persons skin. This is one of the primary causes of infection, is when the ticks guts and bodily fluids are injected into the tissue of the victim.
When the person sees the tick, one of their first instincts is to grab the tick and pull it off. If a member of your family or hiking / camping group yells tick, or they have a tick – take control of the situation at once. Instruct the person not to grab the tick, tell them to stop and someone will remove the tick for them. Talk to the victim in a calm, clear voice. If the tick is attached, waiting a few more minutes for proper removal is not going to hurt anything. Consider this, how long has the tick been attached? It could have been there for hours, especially if it was under the persons clothes. So a few more minutes is not going to hurt anything.
Every survivalist should have some kind of fishing tackle in their stockpile of gear. If some type of world wide event should disrupt food supplies, fishing can be an important resource. This is especially true if you happen to live around some type of water. Whether the water is a lake, pond, bayou, river, stream or ocean – chances are there will be some type of fish in it.
Certain types of bait works best with certain types of fish (like it really takes a scientist to figure that out), this also applies to lures. Top water lures work good for just about all types of fresh water bass. There are numerous bass species considered as gamefish in North America, including largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass (also known as Kentucky bass) and Guadalupe bass – just to name a few. Bass are actually members of the sunfish family, which are realted to the perch. The freshwater bass has become the second most specifically sought-after game fish in the United States.
