Kayak Camping Gear List and for 2019

hey there and welcome back to the channel we've had a great summer we spent a lot of time kayaking we've made several great trips to the Medina and the Guadalupe Bay and the San Marcos and one of the questions that I get most commonly is what kind of gear do I take so today what I want to do is I want to go through the gear that I might take on a typical summer river type outing where we're gonna do a kayaking camp this of course is going to be my personal list of things that I might take and of course there's going to be some variation of that depending on different conditions you know whether it's weather condition River conditions the number of days that we're staying the number of people that we have going so I'm gonna start real quickly this is my wife's kayak all of our kayaks we have Bob Bowman are the future Beach angler 144 kayaks I picked him up for a real good deal I did actually did a video on those I'll post the link up here about three years ago picked them up from the Field & Stream store over in Houston and they've served us really well we've made a lot of trips to him we made that trip to Colorado in New Mexico we've done multiple river trips here in the state of Texas we've gotten a lot of use out of them especially for the price they're really good kayaks are solidly built they track really well but probably not the fastest just because of the whole design they're probably not the fastest organs the fastest that you're gonna get but for most River situations and even the open water situations that you may have to do some paddling flat water they've worked really well second thing I've got is a paddle and I just recently upgraded before our last trip to this bending branch's carbon fiber paddle it's a slice hybrid and basically it's a carbon fiber shaft and it's got the fiberglass infused blades the light of the paddle the better it's gonna be especially on those long extended trips your shoulders arguing it is tired you're gonna be able to paddle farther and longer and without the fatigue that you're gonna get so I went ahead and bought this bending branch's paddle we're getting ready to upgrade my wife's paddle as well maybe he's gonna get a new paddle the second thing that I've got that we carry is I've looked at a bunch of different seat types you know we purchased the $39 seats that fit in to the bottom of this molded kayak we bought some probably $69 seats and the thing that we found that were the best and Casey actually found these online at Amazon is just stadium seat you can see it's kind of this one's kind of a tapered seat down at the bottom and it fits just perfectly right here and the bottom of the kayak and it's extremely comfortable it fits really well it provides back support we do carry tethers and that's one thing that I'll talk about throughout this video is make sure that you have tethers anything that you have on the outside of the boat make sure that you tether it these are some tethers I got this is from camping and kayaking comm I picked up I'll pick them up on Amazon they come in a 3-pack they come with these great little carabiners a little stretchy cord here and so anything that you're gonna have out on the outside of the boat I highly recommend that you tether it I speak from experience we've lost a lot of gear on the river as we've turned over if you know Russ rods and reels especially seems like almost every trip we either break a rod or lose a rod the next critical piece of gear that I'll mention is a life jacket personal floatation device legally you have to have one certainly here in the state of Texas and I imagine pretty much everywhere you have to have one at least on the boat I highly encourage that you wear one only other thing that I'll mention that we keep attached to all the life jackets is a whistle again a requirement in the state of Texas is that you have a whistle and so we keep that attached to the kayaks in case of an emergency we carry some sort of the cooler and again that's going to depend on the type of trip that you're doing the number of days that you or that you're gonna go we carry all of our food drinks ice that kind of thing we'll put frozen Gatorades frozen waters and then whatever drinks that you want you know obviously the carbonated beverages we don't the beer we don't we don't freeze those but I'll pre chill those before we put them in the cooler the other thing they have here of course is if you're gonna do any kind of fishing a rod and reel I brought this collapsible rod and so it just collapses down and I can extend it out and then I've got a this is actually a kind of a little cover that I can put over the bait to keep the hooks from catching on anything and then this right here it's hard to see cuz it's black but it's a just a little rod float you can use a pool noodle or something like that the other thing I carry with me is just some tackle and I probably carry more tackle than I even need I mean this is just a little small taco box again it's personal preference depending on your style of fishing and how you do it all right so let's transition to the clothing and I'm going to start with the clothing that I wear and I'm actually wearing it right now this is pretty basic stuff but make sure you have some sort of a cap of course I carry sunglasses with some kind of a strap I like to wear a short sleeve in the morning a little short sleeve polyester type shirt and then a pair of quick drop shorts you know you can wear a bathing suit or I prefer utility shorts just because it's got pockets in it although you do have to be careful not to leave stuff in your pockets before you jump in the water and then I'll carry some water shoes which I have over here so just a pair of spit these are sperry water shoes I really like these they they work pretty well the other thing that I will wear that I'll consider part of my kayaking wear is I've got this free fly long sleeve hooded shirt so the sun's out and I don't want to put sunscreen on or any of that kind of thing it's really easy just put this this hooded shirt on it's a lightweight shirt it's real cool it's made of bamboo aside from the clothes that I would actually have on me let's kind of transition into the other things that I'm gonna carry on the trip and one of the things that I'm that you want to make sure of that you have is some sort of a good quality dry bag I've got several different dry sects that range in size from I've got a 5 liter dry stack we've got several 10 liter dry sacs love this clear this is a 10 liter clear sea line dry sack I love it because I can see exactly what's in it this one is a 13 litre which I actually like because it's a great size to fit all of my clothes and then the stuff that I'm gonna have for camping once will go over here just a second and then I have a 20 liter which is really a little bit too big to fit down in the hole of the boat but if I want to put it on the outside and strap it down or that one works really well to put more you know your tent and your other gear that you have with you in it the first thing that I'll put in here is just dry clothes and these are the dry clothes that I'm gonna have when I get off the river I like to once I get off the river and we get to our campsite I like to have dry clothes to get everything set up so I've got an extra pair of shorts extra shirt just again quick dry type stuff things that I'm gonna sleep in a pair of socks which I've got Crocs that I like to wear when I'm on there when I'm at the campsite again they're they dry quickly I can take my water shoes off and start getting them dry maybe even set them up by the fire and I prefer to wear socks with the Crocs especially in the summertime and then I gotta just some an extra pair of underwear that I'll take so all of that will go in the dry sack then we'll start with kind of the the camping gear the first thing is we take we have found that hammocks typically worked better than tents I actually prefer a hammock over a tent we found that hammock works really well just because especially in the summertime it keeps you a lot cooler it's a breeze coming off the water cools the hammock off so again hammock is my preferred and then with any hammock make sure you don't forget your suspension straps as far as blankets we actually have found even when the the temperatures are 70 to 75 degrees outside in the evening we actually get have gotten cold overnight and that's been on every trip the medina trip and the guadalupe trips are done just that cool breeze coming off there you need something to wrap up with nothing heavy you know certainly don't need any of my down blankets 20 degree outdoor vinyl down like it's but I picked up these little Kelty best bestie blankets again from Academy I think they're 20 or 25 dollars and they're kind of a synthetic material provide just a little bit of cover when you need it this is just a little Yukon Outfitters tarp it's rain fly I guess or I'll carry my DD tarp as well typically again I don't care if this gets wet so it'll stay typically outside the dry bag make sure you also bring this is just paracord that I have set up for a Ridgeline I prefer to have a little pillow this is a seat of stomach pillow just something to keep my head supported and then have it just a small camp towel you know just something to dry off with when you get to camp before you put your dry clothes on and then I also have take some sort of cleaning cloth you know just body wipe something like that and I'll put those in there just again so I get to camp if I want to just kind of get myself a little bit of a sponge bath I can do that and then the other thing that I'll have in there is a headlamp again when I get to camp I want to make sure I have a headlamp when I'm setting everything up and have it easily accessible next item that we'll talk about a bag is to have a waterproof bag that I'm going to keep my phone in gecko brands makes this one and basically it's got a slot here that you can slide your cellphone in and it's got additional pouch that you can put your other important stuff in there a lot of times I'll carry like sunscreen it's certainly an important thing that I'd want to have in here you're something that won't have readily accessible does a Garmin in reach so I'll I may stick this in there although also may I've got another bag over here that's got electronics in it that I'll keep with me we'll go over that as well but so this will fit in there maybe extra batteries for the camera maybe even an extra camera that I keep in here that I just want to pull out real quick and get some footage up and then be able to put it back in and close it down so this works really well for that wall I've got this one I'll mention that if you if you carrying maps and it's probably a good idea to carry a printed map this is a map of the river that we've loaded or gonna float and any some notes that I have with it as far as distances and all that stuff so I'll just print it out cut it to size or fold it up and slide it in this little deal and then have that pretty easily accessible alright so moving on this is kind of my Possible's bag and this has a lot of different things rather than pulling everything out on it I'm just gonna read kind of through the list of everything that's in my Possible's pouch toothbrush toothpaste I've got soap I've got more wipes I've got off wipes in there I've got toilet paper I've got a lighter Ferro rod so we want to have multiple fire fire building sources I've got a flashlight and extra batteries for that I've got a folding saw typically on these river trips there's plenty of driftwood around to find firewood so we don't really need to do any kind of wood cutting or wood chopping but I like having that folding saw just in case we needed to do some kind of processing the wood we got Clippers I've got chapstick and I had a trash bag of that so I keep keep one in there the next thing that I want to talk about is I've kind of got a repair kit and first-aid kit and I like to keep this all together and easily accessible quickly accessible in the boat and so I've got another 10 liter dry bag that I use for that this has actually got a little clearer this is uh actually from DD hammocks it's got a little clear front in here so again I can kind of see what's in it I've got a first-aid kit this has different things and again I'll just read through it rather than just opening that up and showing you I'll just tell you what's in the first-aid kit I've got band-aids I've got gauze neosporin I've got some leaves and some sort of anti-inflammatory pain medication I've got benadryl I've got leuco tape I've got you real a--take which actually have I think laying right here so some sort of tape on a previous trip that we did my wife actually got a hook embedded in her finger and it went all the way through and we didn't have wire any kind of cutters with us we didn't have any multi-tool with us we really didn't have anything any kind of first-aid kit even and fortunately somebody that was out there on the river near Bias had some tape and what we ended up doing is taping it was a rattle trap with treble hook in it we just end up taping that the whole lure to her finger she completed the trip and then we went to the minor emergency and they cut it off but since then I made sure I've got some sort of first-aid kit the tape of course and then just a little small pair of cutters that I can reach in and cut a hook cut the barb off a hook or something like that and also we carry multi-tool I've got a nice Leatherman Wave multi-tool but I prefer not to carry it on the river so this is just a cheap tool it's got some pliers and knife and cutters and saw and the things that I need it's functional but not expensive in case to losing it or gets wet or something like that I've got a repair kit so this is kind of a air mattress repair kit it's got superglue and then some little air mattress repair things in case either I or somebody else has a an air mattress or an inflatable pad and then I kind of have a little piece of the molded plastic off of the kayak in case I need to do a little bit of a heavier repair with a kayak and do some plastic welding a vest some clear RTV RTV silicone I've got some jb weld plastic Bhandar and then I've got an actual separate fire starter right here in case I need to melt that plastic and kind of weld it on to repair a hole in the kayak I've also got just some Bank line here any number of uses for that and again more bug repellant all that stays in this bag and I try to keep it kind of in in the top of one of the hatches and I always am sure to tell anybody that's in our group what's in there and where it is and why it's in there in case I'm the one that gets injured somebody else can quickly go and retrieve the first-aid kit I've got some extra tent stakes toilet paper of course that's a must and a little bit a few more Cottonelle wipes that's what that is and then I've got a a water filter system this is a sawyer mini which actually is in here and then this is just the bag for it so all of that whether the Possible's pouch and then the first-aid and repair kit all kind of goes together into one little kit everything kind on this side of me is where you start getting into some variables and personalized based on the trip that you're taking and what you're gonna take so let's first start talking about the cooking type stuff in the cooking gear I've got my jet oil whether I'm doing a real minimalist trip or whether we're taking a lot of food and different things I really like having this jet boil boil water really quick I've got the coffee press for it so real quickly I can make coffee in the mornings while we're making a bigger deal of coffee if we've got more people on the trip you know five six seven people and we want to do more coffee like this bigger Bass Pro Shops stainless steel coffee percolator but otherwise everything pretty much I can make coffee for two or three people and the Jetboil if we decide we want to do dehydrate it or freeze-dried meals then we can do those in the jet wall as well quickly boil water all that thing that kind of thing and then of course make sure that you've got a propane fuel canister for it or its rendered useless and then I've got a couple of sporks and they stay in this little cheap Walmart Shack it's really just to kind of keep everything together it's really a nice size for that so I just kind of put everything in there the majority of the cooking that we've done on these trips has really just been over the fire as I've mentioned earlier driftwood is typically readily abundant on all the trips that we've been on as we're gets caught up on the banks and the shores in the island we haven't had any problem finding any kind of driftwood and so we'll make us a just a small fire and I've shown before on the previous videos this guerrilla put a little grill grate works great for you know for the brats or we've done fajitas we've done sausages you can do hamburgers I also pulled this little grate out of a smoker that I have it works fine as well although you either need some sort of a log to rest it on or rocks or something like that and so typically I'll just take both of those they lay really flat put them inside of a cooler or I carried this mesh bag or actually a couple of different mesh bags so I can kind of keep everything together this is stuff I don't care if it gets wet so just a little mesh bag works well and then pretty much for every trip I showed you the sporks but I'll also take just a little flat plate like that try to make sure I have plate and sports for the number of people that we have on the trip so that would be pretty much a minimalist deal I'll do a deal on food later if y'all so desire but my list I've got you know depending on whether I'm cooking the brats or whether I'm doing fajitas or whether we're doing fish or anything like that I've got a list of gear that I have associated with that that I need to bring and I'll go through that really quick so on most trips I may just take these items and can get away with anything that I need good pair of tongs works but if we're gonna do let's say we're gonna do fish now I may want to have a cutting board I've got a spatula I've got a little spoon here and of course a fillet knife this is just a little cheap fillet knife particularly if you're going to either cut up your meat after you cook it like fajitas or if you're going to do a catch and cook so you're gonna catch your fish in day and you need to clean or fillet your fish certainly want to have a knife to be able to do that I know I'm gonna do fish I'll carry this little skillet and then works oil and the breading or whatever that I need I've already talked about the coffee pot this is the other thing so we've made pancakes and sausage on the river as well and so I bought this little cheap skillet thing from Walmart I think is like nine dollars I'm just a flat surface we can still cook over the fire with it but just something flat I may or may not take that depend on what we're planning on cooking for any trip but it's pretty lightweight so I don't mind taking it the other thing that I always try to keep with me is some kind of rolled up tinfoil and that'll stay with my cooking stuff as well the other things that I'll mention is make sure I already talked about make sure you have a trash bag it's a good idea to make sure that you have Ziploc bags maybe a quart and maybe a gallon ziplock you know for example if you're doing fish or anything like that you can you can put your cornmeal or whatever your your fish fry stuff in there and then shake it up in that so I always want to make sure I have that the other thing is some sort of a camp cup for either coffee in the morning water drinks we enjoy a cold beverage on the on the river while or while we're paddling in most cases and so this is something that I'll typically have with me and we're running out of light here pretty quickly let's talk about the last stuff that I have it again that this is more of a personal type stuff is I've got the drone this is a DJI spark I really need to use this more I carry it in this Pelican 1150 case again it's waterproof typically I'll carry it right up underneath the front hatch here and easily accessible it's got another five litre dry sack and I'll either use this one or that clear one that I showed you earlier but this Bible Eater dry sack is a good size because I can carry the camera equipment that I have I've got the Sony rx100 it's not waterproof but I do like to pull it out when we get on shore when we're in in dry type situations where there's not a whole lot of moving water I don't mind pulling it out or I'm not don't think there's a risk of dropping it or getting it wet so that'll go in there I've got battery charger and then of course this power bank and then lightning cable USB cable USB C cables all the different things that I'll need to charge the different camera equipment the primary camera that I'm using right now is the DJI Osmo action it works really well I've got it still got a few hiccups with it that I'll talk about maybe in a future video and then this is actually a bike mount and so I can use it you know like this or when I'm paddling stick in my mouth use it right there it gives me a good perspective and it's pretty versatile deal and of course extra batteries and all that kind of thing going there last thing that I'm gonna mention is or last couple of things is I've got the chair I didn't originally take a chair Mary and Casey each took chairs to sit in there just a little folding compact chairs they're small they're fairly cheap doesn't matter if it gets wet nice to have something when you get to camp sitting around a fire and relax in and so I think that's both money weight and space well-spent the other thing that I will mention is backup paddles again I talked about tethering your paddle I know it's kind of hard to even fathom losing a paddle on a trip like that but we have in the past lost a paddle and we've also broken one so a couple of trips ago Mary actually broke the paddle fortunately Dane was smart enough to have an extra paddle that he had taken apart in the hole we may not carry them in every kayak that we have but having at least one extra set of paddles there's probably a very wise thing all right so again I've got a little comprehensive list if you're interested leave a comment down in the comment section below or shoot me a DM on Instagram and I'll send you that list again the list will revise depending on the conditions and that kind of thing but this is just kind of a basic rundown of the things that I have and then I'll take with me let me know your thoughts leave anything out is there anything that you would suggest that I take am I taking too much what would you suggest that I omit all right so the bugs are getting really bad locusts are starting to make a lot of racket here in the evening so I'm gonna wrap this up thank y'all for joining me we got a trip coming up tomorrow and we'll see you on the next video when we talk to you about that one

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Length: 22min 42sec (1362 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 06 2019