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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Florida Camper's Pocket Companion: Alligators, Lightning, Heat, Rip Currents, Snakes & Fishing - What to Do When It Matters

The Florida Camper's Pocket Companion: Alligators, Lightning, Heat, Rip Currents, Snakes & Fishing - What to Do When It Matters

Redfern, Cal

Paperback

Series: Cal Redfern- Camping 101, Book 6

CampingSouth

ISBN13: 9798187478156
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 15 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The famous dangers are rare. The quiet ones are busy.Florida kills people who came prepared for the wrong thing. They watch the water for alligators all week - and get dropped by heat, a rip current, or the lightning that makes this the strike capital of the country. The gator on the news bites a handful of people a year. The rip current nobody photographs takes more people than the sharks, the gators, and the lightning combined.This book makes sure you know which danger is which - before it matters.The sixth pocket guide in the Camping 101 series covers what actually gets people in Florida, in plain language you can read in an evening: Lightning - you're camping in the capital. Why thunder means you're already in range, why a tent and a pavilion are not shelter, and the 30-minute rule.Rip currents - the beach's quiet killer. The flags, the guarded-beach rule, and the one move that saves you: float, then swim parallel.Alligators - the rules of the water. All 67 counties are occupied. Never feed, never swim at dusk or dark, fish scraps in the trash, dogs on the bank - and exactly what to do if the worst happens.Heat and humidity - why the feels like number is the honest one, and why confusion is the alarm.Hurricanes - the one danger that makes an appointment, and how to spend the notice properly.Snakes and the python question - cottonmouths, corals, diamondbacks, what to do for a bite (and never do), and the honest truth about the Everglades' celebrity invader.Fire ants, no-see-ums, bears, panthers, poisonwood, burn bans, and the springs - Florida's best swimming, and why it's also the safest.Fishing legally in Florida - who needs a license, the freshwater/saltwater trap that writes tickets (the license follows the fish, not the water), and the free-shoreline rule residents love.Plus the five knots worth knowing, the order of operations when something goes wrong, and the numbers to write on paper before you lose signal - including the gator hotline.No foraging. No survival fantasy. No four-page gear lists. This book fits in a pocket. That is the entire point.Tell someone where you're going. Swim at the springs and the guarded sand. Be off the water when the afternoon builds. Then go have the best days of your life out there.

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