Florida Primitive Camping Tips

[@hikewithmike4673]

great info!!!!.....nice to have a Florida specific video..thanks

[@Rambooutfitters]

Hike with Mike No problem and thank you! I have quite a few on Florida if you are wanting to learn more.

[@soylientgreen5663]

Great job thanks rare to find some one to show me new survival skill in florida.

[@Victorseafog]

Beware of yellow jacket nest in the behind tge dead husk of the fronds lining the side trunks of cabbage or sabal palms. They are common and if you pull the husk unaware you, others near you, including dogs/animals could be severely injured they will attack and chase you in large numbers. This has happened to me and my dogs.

[@jackm4700]

Good advice. Have had it happen to me and my dog too. Also it isn't just one that attacks, it's all !!!

[@mr.birdman3364]

And beware of large dirt mounds and just small holes in the sand in general I remember as a kid steping on a lot of them as a game and having a huge swarm of bees or wasps attacking me

[@spartacusantipas4580]

As always, thanks for keeping it simple and effective. Keep up the good work.

[@Rambooutfitters]

+Spartacus Antipas Your welcome and thank you.

[@nickblanchard1629]

Finally found a good resource. I’m from the Atchafalaya basin. Largest swamp in North America. For a long time. The wild has been calling me. Thanks for your input. I subscribe to and hit all notifications. Looking forward to more of your expertise in swamp living. Admired fan. Cajun Nick.

[@CLCinflorida]

One of the most horrifying experience I've had was seeing an enormous Fire Ant Floating Island... Have you ever seen one? Fantastic Video 🤗♥️👍

[@darrellholloway520]

Great info specific to some of our Florida environments, thanks!

[@Rambooutfitters]

+Darrell Holloway Your welcome my friend and thank you.

[@theprophetez1357]

Here is another good thing about melaluca. We used them for building chicken huts with the thatched roofs. The melaluca grows very straight, the bark comes off easily, and it is fairly impervious to rot and insects. It is also medicinal. To thatch the roofs we used cabbage palm. Just FYI. Oh and vf thanks for your videos.

[@gary6212]

Thanks so much for your great content. I just moved to FL and am trying to build up my area-specific knowledge; so this is incredibly helpful. You probably saved my life a few times in the future already :-)

[@dr.maryadkins9206]

for fire ant bites vinegar as much as possible as soon as possible. I once got fire ant bites at someone's house I went to Whataburger burger and used my pickles to calm the fire ant bites. Works great no scarring no pustules. it is a chemical process. Vinegar as much as possible as soon as possible

[@soylientgreen5663]

Dr. Mary Adkins vinegar on everything. For every thing!!! Lol

[@FLsheepdog1]

Works for Man o War and Jelly Fish too

[@enochgagne339]

also the food at What-burger will not only clean out your intestines but also ant venom & anything else not meant for human consumption

[@theprophetez1357]

I like the smell of mellaluca too, especially when they are flowering, but some people can't stand it. Love your shows.

[@Ok-wb4du]

Person from cold place in normal day in Florida: why it so hot?!?! Floridian: what do you mean? I’m just fine The temperature: 374626245577747474737470875568565444455667653331112

[@mizzpoetrics]

Great video! I noticed a lot of dried pine needles on the ground, those would also work great for tender, also pine bark, the sap(fresh or dried) & the cones.

[@Rambooutfitters]

mizzpoetrics Agreed my friend.

[@markcrume]

great job. ru still doing fla stuff?

[@Argyll100]

Enjoyed the video interesting and informative given me the incentive to check out my own native plants and trees over here in Scotland . thank you for sharing your knowledge .. John

[@Rambooutfitters]

John Lindsay Hey John that is great to hear. It is an enjoyable skill set to have. I've always wanted to visit Scotland. It is where my last name Rambo originated.

[@turuff7114]

The paper bark tree is very helpful in the bush we had one at school (in Australia) my friend showed me how to get water from the tree

[@SwampSurgeon]

"You ain't gonna find much water in florida." LAUGHS IN FLORIDIAN

[@DIRT813]

I was thinking the same thing lol,

[@gonzousaable]

Where in Florida did you film this?

[@Rambooutfitters]

gonzousa This was South Florida on the west coast. Most of my videos are the east coast.

[@jackm4700]

Good stuff ! Looks just like my area ! Always hated those vines and chopped them down . Now I will eat them !

[@wolf_of_odin1602]

Im from florida and grew up learning all of this. But i just recently moved to Tennessee and man is the land and bosh a lot different. Any sugestions on a good book for Tennesse wild life edibles and madicinal plant. I sont recocnise a lot of anything up here as far as plants go and how i can use them to my benefit.

[@cajunmandick2985]

Good video buddy , but with flip-flops on in the brush is asking to be snake bite , copperheads abound here , at least in Brevard county . I'm homeless , living in a tent and believe me , I've killed 3 so far this year . They are small and hard to see,. especially in pine brush or dead ground cover .

[@FLsheepdog1]

And Pigmy Rattle snakes, thin as a pencil, no rattle, and strong venom. Most Coral snake bites are between toes and fingers as they have a small moulth, very toxic venom. ( Yellow on Red, yur dead ) Excellent vid!!!!! I have a survival vid also, he he he kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3iaoWZoqbx6g8U

[@thunderingcarp3399]

you got wifi in your tent? awsome i need to quit my job

[@atonewiththemultiverse2889]

And why kill em lol just pretend you didn’t see it walk away an you’ll probably never see it again

[@edmundtozzi6666]

ya wearing flops off trail, you are letting others around you know that you are in florida.

[@JR-lk8fe]

What are wigglies? Are you referring to snakes that slither? If you take a stick and poke around a bit before reaching your hand in, you should be OK. If any are there, they will generally slither away.

[@missprimrose4132]

Hint: Don't wear open toe sandals in the woods. Wear long pants light color. Prevent Lyme disease & check yourself for ticks.

[@Rambooutfitters]

Miss Primrose I usually am in long pants and boots. However, I do go barefoot and wear sandals a lot as well. You won't catch me hiking in deep swamp barefoot, but where I am here I tend to go barefoot a lot. It's good for the feet in strengthening and keeping them healthy. It is a risk I take and can't recommend it though. As far as the ticks go it doesn't matter if you're naked or clothed your getting ticks on you in Florida haha. Almost every time I had one somewhere. Thanks for looking out though and watching.

[@expressivepets1]

Miss Primrose in FLA everyone wears sandles, everywhere. Even in the winter. 🐍

[@watchingyourvideo8029]

Ixodes Scapularis is a b$&&@.

[@usernamemykel]

Teri 2011 - "...everyone wears sandals, everywhere..." - not at all true!!!!!!!!!

[@edmundtozzi6666]

Flops off trail is a Florida thing,

[@soylientgreen5663]

You can feed fire ants. Give them some thing out side camp to invite them to work...or put piece of meat on their mound keeps them from hunting meat in your bag..if your ca.ping few days I usually bait the ants outside camp

[@tomcatt998]

I will "bait" them nasty little bastards with some gas & a match,, FLDM = fireant lives don't matter !!!

[@AngieAndersonAerials]

Great video and very informative thanks for the share

[@Rambooutfitters]

Angie Brackin Your welcome and thank you.

[@NateBuker]

Just stumbled upon this. Had to sub cuz I'm trying to get more of an understanding of the deep south flora and fauna usage. I hope you're still active so I can remember to revisit. Thanks so much.

[@Rambooutfitters]

Hey my friend great to hear. Thank you. I keep them coming as much as I can. I still shoot stuff on Florida as well. Some of my videos can help with FL as well even though they are shot in TN or MI

[@NateBuker]

Michigan? I used to go to the Manistee National Forest up there.

[@Rambooutfitters]

Yup I know right where that is. Very neat. Michigan is a great place.

[@MrCarlospal18]

Good videos man! Could you direct me to where I can find some articles etc to gain more knowledge on eatable plants etc in Florida? Thank you

[@Rambooutfitters]

Carlos Perez Thank you my friend. I absolutely can send you to the place that taught me what I know about plants in Florida. Go to Eattheweeds.com Green Deane is his name and he also has a youtube channel that is very imformative. His blogs have plants numbering over a thousand. I promise you will not find a better site. His classes are excellent as well. Hope that helps brother.

[@johndifrancisco3642]

Virginia Creeper! I was going to ask about that because I became more and more allergic to it but I never new its name. That crap grows all around my Mom's house and I used to wrap it around my arms to pull it out of the trees until one time I broke out so bad I had to be put on Prednisone for 10 days. I could actually see the little climbing claws from the vine on my skin! Now if I even touch anything that it has touched I break out badly and it lasts for more than 2 weeks. North East Florida.

[@jamoser95]

where can i camp in florida where im not surrounded by rvs?

[@Rambooutfitters]

jw corbett is real florida landscape with some backcountry. jonathan dickenson state park is a great place as well with backcountry campsites. Are you on the east or west coast?

[@jamoser95]

west fortmyers area

[@SKserpent]

the islands of far North Clearwater Beach and Dunedin are pretty nice.

[@Ervin1ma]

damn! you know you stuff. Do you have any vids on the everglades by chance?

[@Rambooutfitters]

Look at all my earliest videos, they are all on Florida

[@winniewin8010]

the flip flops pushing down those palmetto bushes like that makes me just worry for a rattled snake like a little ground rattler or something usually like to be around those palmettos

[@Halomanx540]

You typically hear them long before you shove your leg into biting distance, on top of that they're more likely to run away if you take it slow and make your presence known.

[@richiesacolic436]

I loved Florida I lived there for a while back I'm the late 90s within walking distance of a bar called the cabbage patch

[@joeyfoorr7666]

Close to Daytona area? Samsula?

[@12vLife]

You ever see Florida Panthers out there? Bears? you carry a gun or bear spray? Does regular mosquito net work out there and protect from noseeums? I have a few lots in central florida and see tons of Panther tracks, but never actually seen one.

[@edmundtozzi6666]

wild bore, dear, and alligators panthers never. bears very rare. no net, gotta hit your skin with some kinda repellent.

[@daworm166]

great vids what part of florida you in

[@Rambooutfitters]

daworm166 Thank you. I lived in West Palm Beach along the Atlantic. Currently I live in Tennessee.

[@ryantobey6476]

Great video I'm in Tampa Florida

[@OilysHumbleHome]

Most Melaleuca is great for antiseptic/cleaning as well.

[@Rambooutfitters]

+The Oily Prepper Absolutely, thanks for the tip

[@usernamemykel]

This is excellent. I've previously subbed to this channel. One recommendation - wear a microphone, because when you distance yourself from the camera, it's more difficult to hear your sage words. Kudos!

[@broadcasttttable]

What if you're in a survival situation without a weapon to hunt with? Your experience with edible insects, snails, etc.?

[@ticket2space621]

Hey I know I'm super late but I'd stay away from snails. They're the #1 carrier of parasites and some of the common ones are pretty gnarly. But a bamboo spear can be a great tool for spearfishing in shallow water. Snare traps as well.

[@DowntownSound1]

Awesome videos!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@lilyli2460]

Budy, that snail shell is a nice shot glass. 😄😄

[@zackevans5915]

Could I find this in Lehigh acres or fort Meyers?

[@Rambooutfitters]

Zack Evans This was shot there at some private land. I can't remember the name of it but there is a preserve in Ft. Myers that is pretty neat to just roam on. There is a shooting range nearby if that helps.

[@zackevans5915]

OK awesome!!!

[@FLsheepdog1]

@@Rambooutfitters Could be Babcock Webb WMA

[@brennanmerris6367]

I cant find any where to go primitive camping or bushcrafting in the glorida panhandle, in the Panama City area, any help?

[@Rambooutfitters]

+Brennan Louderback I'm really not all that familiar with the panhandle. Closest place to that I know would be Ocala or Okeefenokee.

[@MrCurtisass]

+Brennan Louderback t.h.Stone park, check it out

[@TeamDisoriented]

+Brennan Louderback Hey Brennan, check out the Eglin reservation. There are primitive sites along the Florida National Scenic Trail that runs along the north border of Eglin. I'm over here and have primitive camped a few of them. I've heard that Econfina is really nice, and it's close to you, but I've never been there.

[@brennanmerris6367]

+Team Disoriented Thanks man! sounds good

[@fishfire_2999]

go south on 19

[@Raithius1]

Paper trees don't grow in Tn. and if you can't find water in Fl. your not looking, its everywhere. As far as the Palmetto, cut the top with a machete, about a foot from the tip, and you'll get more heart of Palm.

[@Rambooutfitters]

Todney W Nope the Australian Paperbark is definitely not in Tn. The birch tree is though. I'm not sure what water you talk of. I've spent a lot of time in the swamps. The water and streams are mostly brackish. Unless you're in Ocala. You should check out my video on multiple ways to find water in South Florida. As far as cutting the palm with a machete, you spend more energy doing that than putting in. They are not that easy to get into. We would use a chainsaw to get all the cabbage out.

[@Raithius1]

Rambooutfitters I live in Lehigh and grew up down here. As long as your more than about a mile from the shore the water is fresh, otherwise no one would have a well down here. And I've worked in land surveying for many years, have cut more palmetto than I care to remember and never used anything but a machette. Maybe you should sharpen yours.

[@coltonjones8242]

+Rambooutfitters if you expend more energy geyti g the food then what you get from the food then its not worth it swinging a machete wears you out don't listen to these boys they don't know to much hence why they are watching you

[@27ccto]

Heart of palm is from cabbage palms not palmetto similar but not as much or as good

[@jonalynk298]

every single thing that u just said was true but getting heart of pal is easier said then done

[@aguyandagopro915]

Great video

[@Rambooutfitters]

South Florida Hiker Thank you

[@tomcatt998]

Did he say U ain't gonna find much water in Florida ? ?

[@augustingervasio3269]

This will be useful for when I move out

[@CliffSavage239]

😂😂

[@banjajohn]

Thanks for sharing.

[@Rambooutfitters]

banjajohn Your welcome my friend.

[@leegammon1267]

You can make great cordage out of the palmetto fibers

[@smo-lo]

You should be careful when handling/eating Apple snails. They are a carrier of Hepatitis

[@robvolsky5336]

www.news-medical.net/health/How-is-Rat-Lungworm-Disease-Spread.aspx. From eating Apple or Channel snails that carry this parasite. Attacks the heart and brain. DO NOT EAT RAW.

[@wholeNwon]

@@robvolsky5336 Actually it's even more dangerous than that. Transmission to humans can occur through contaminated water or vegetation that has come in contact with infected animals, including snails, slugs, etc. In humans, it may be incurable and fatal.

[@thataintnomoonsucka]

@@wholeNwon What if you expose them to some fire?

[@wholeNwon]

@@thataintnomoonsucka What if you don't expose them to enough "fire"? Worth taking a chance with your life? Your call.

[@tomcatt1824]

@@wholeNwon scripture warns us 2 not eat these thing's

[@sosteve9113]

well done buddy you know your Stuff

[@Rambooutfitters]

Appreciate that my friend

[@thomasmalone6654]

Rock Brother, thanks!

[@woodlandwahine]

this was very informative thanks! ps u look like handsome squidward

[@williamshumate5720]

Good info !!

[@Rambooutfitters]

+William Shumate Thank you, glad you enjoyed it

[@ryantobey6476]

Moss is also antibacterial

[@kylekessler1610]

great vid

[@Rambooutfitters]

Thank you my friend.

[@soylientgreen5663]

If you can't tea.. no fire water.. lol. You can chew and pull the juices ...

[@chessylatendresse941]

Not only for camp out, I’m 30 miles away from Mexico Beach Florida where wiped by hurricane Micheal. We need survival knowledge.

[@edmundtozzi6666]

flops off trail in board shorts is straight floracana.

[@chrisduhaime5689]

Watch out for the 3 leaf poison ivy

[@dannygroblewski2758]

Urine works really well for fire ant bites

[@usernamemykel]

Danny, that's the ammonia in it.

[@tomcatt1824]

@@usernamemykel ahhhhh. Just piss on it...🐒

[@tomcatt998]

@@tomcatt1824 😜😹👍

[@Sabbathissaturday]

Shit, I’m going to break out from poison ivy now. Don’t even need to touch it to get it. 😈

[@johnhoffman9932]

okay

[@gunnargiachetti5152]

I love you're video but there's an episode of Rick and Morty

[@chrischrisson7921]

Very informative thx.

[@Rambooutfitters]

chris chrisson No problem and thank you.

[@tophwendt6635]

SURVIVAL VIDEO HUH, flip flops, "Not much water in florida", in the woods with NO KNIFE, Lets start a bet. Whos says this guy doesnt survive very long away from his running water and internet? Lol. . Had a few good tips man, but i think you ate too much fermented fruit

[@edmundtozzi6666]

flops off trail in board shorts is straight floracana

[@bobcowlesjr9920]

Okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay!

[@deborahcook1248]

sandals, shorts. primitive camping and Florida don't go together.

[@justiceforsethrichwwg1wga160]

They do if you know what you’re doing and comfortable.

[@deborahcook1248]

I live in FL and no way

[@tomcatt1824]

@@deborahcook1248 me 2,,, i tried shorts n sandals, short sleeve shirts,,, learned very quickly 2 wear long pants long sleeve shirt boonie hat W/ mosquito net n boots, n gloves,, go ahead,,,, call me a wuss...🌴🐊🌴.

[@LLCNipsturBrands]

you are very handsome