FOR KIDS
Blackwater Outdoor JourneysCanoe the blackwater
rivers of the Deep South
Documentary expeditions, river guides and live water levels for eight rivers in south Georgia and north Florida. Where the map ends, the wild begins.
17 rivers, free to read online. One email opens the whole guide.
Live river levels, updated weekly Check this week →The swamp does not have signal.
Trip planning and GPS tracking that keep working where the bars run out. Plan the route at the kitchen table, follow it from the water, find the camp in the dark. Free to install.
Three more, each doing one job properly.
Premium adds offline maps and the AI Coach — the two things that matter once you are past the last landing.
Woodsman Guide
The craft, one clear step at a time. Chapters 1 and 2 free.
App Store · Google Play
Bushcraft
Learn the skill, use it outside. Free with the book.
App Store · Google Play
Hockline on the web
Stands, hunt areas, and when the deer should move. A deer hunting
guide comes with it.
Use it on the web now · apps coming soon
Everything we learned, on paper.
Written from the water, not from a search engine. Every one is free to read online. Print copies are the ones that ride in the boat.
The Paddler’s Guides
The original, the second edition and the Okefenokee.
Maps, access points and what the gauge really means.
from $12.95
River Guides by State
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, the Carolinas and Tennessee.
Every runnable river, put-in to take-out.
$19.95 each
The Camper’s Guides
Where to sleep in each state. Campgrounds, backcountry sites,
seasons and what it actually costs.
$19.95 each
The Wilderness Skills Series
Canoe camping, camp kitchen, map and compass, first aid, survival,
fishing, gear, cold and rain. One skill per book.
$24.95 each
The Bushcraft Guide
The big one. Everything the series covers, carried through
start to finish in one volume.
$24.95
Guide
coming The Deer Hunting Guide Stands, sign, wind and the hours the deer actually move. Lands with Hockline. coming
Tilla and Lance
The camping books for kids. Same swamp, same rivers, written for the ones sitting closest to the fire. More than half of everything we have published.
The Camp Books
Lakeside, forest, creek and night camp. The fire ring, the compass,
and keeping a clean camp.
$12.99 each
The Okefenokee Trail
The real canoe trail, shelter by shelter. The old canal, Billys Island,
Big Water, Floyds Island, Chesser.
$12.99 each
Visit the Okefenokee
The things a family can actually do in a day. Boat tours, the tower,
the boardwalk, the Chesser homestead.
$12.99 each
Both swamp journeys, as a game. Paddle the canoe trail shelter by shelter, or visit the twenty real stops at the three entrances. Trip 1 is free. Playable in a browser, or installed.
iPhone version is with Apple
Every guide is free to read online. One email opens it.
What’s Happening
Can you paddle it this weekend? Live levels for every river, what’s open in the Okefenokee, and what’s going on around the swamp.
The Okefenokee is on the World Heritage List
Georgia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the first National Wildlife Refuge in the country ever inscribed. That took years of work by people who carried it long before we ever pointed a camera at the water.
We paddle this swamp. So we built a free thirty-six-page guide to why the world chose this place, drawn from the official UNESCO nomination dossier. Every fact in it is sourced to that document. Every photograph is credited. No email required.
Free to read · 36 pages · printed copy $12.95
The Rivers
Deep destination guides to the blackwater we paddle. Access points, seasons, gators, permits, and the trips we have run there.
407,000 acresOkefenokee
Cypress labyrinth, high water, total isolation.
To the GulfSuwannee
White sand banks, black current, gator country.
GA-FL lineSt. Marys
Dark, tidal, winding. The border nobody maps right.
Wild & tightSatilla
Downed trees, portages, camps you earn.
Georgia's widestAltamaha
Big water, tiny islands, the river nobody films.
Spring-fed & clearWithlacoochee
Blackwater that turns clear as glass over the springs.
Sinks & risesAlapaha
Blackwater that vanishes underground, then rises again.
Macon to the AltamahaOcmulgee
Sandbars, sweeping bends, and long gaps between landings.
A Perfect Broadside at 50 Yards and No Blood Trail
The Blood Trail Kept Looping
Every trip, documented.
More than 50 films across eight rivers, the hunt club and off-water trips. Watch the expeditions the way they happened, then read the field notes on what went wrong and what held.
"I didn't start this to chase an algorithm. I started it to stop time."
After losing one of my sons, I saw how many adventures had faded into memory. In June 2025 I launched this with a single camera. What began as an archive for my family became a record for anyone who has felt the pull of dark water and tall cypress.
Rodney & Tina
Saint George, Georgia · Est. 2025
The comment sections say it better than we could.
"I've been playing in the swamp, Satilla and St Mary's Rivers most of my 72 years and you've got the very best videos and well done of any I've viewed!"
@Swampmanking · on Steak and Shrimp Under a Fire Ban
"Kayaking was one of my favorite things to do but now that I'm disabled I enjoy watching your videos. Thank you."
@matthewrich3564 · on the Ocmulgee film
"I was searching for a cheesecake recipe and stumbled upon this channel. I'm six videos in!"
@WrightWayHVACR · on Hundreds of ALLIGATORS
Two names, one operation. Blackwater films the trips. Camping Wilderness Skills is where the gear, the planning and the skills behind them live.
Where to next
Free guideThe Paddler's Guide
17 rivers. Maps, access points, and trip-planning chapters. Written from the water. Read it free, or buy your own printed copy for $14.95.
The Film Archive
49 documentary expeditions, every trip as it happened. Search it by river.
River Levels and Gauges
Live USGS readings for seventeen rivers, beside what each number actually means for a loaded canoe.
Camping Wilderness Skills
The systems behind every expedition. Courses, the app, and the community.
The Camping Wilderness Skills trip planner. Free to install.