Everglades National Park Biologist Led Adventure: Cruise, Hike + Airboat

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Duration:9 hours 30 minutes to 10 hours (approx.)
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Explore the real Everglades on a full-day guided tour, led by an experienced master naturalist. This is a comprehensive Everglades experience! Take a 1-hour, guided boat tour of the beautiful 10,000 Islands. Chance to see bird species: like roseate spoonbills, white pelicans, and ospreys. See manatees and dolphins up close. Go on a 1-hour dry nature hike led by a master naturalist, where you will immerse yourself in incredible wildlife and rare plants and orchids, under a canopy of huge cypress trees. Hold onto your hat on an exhilarating 1-hour air boat ride, the best in the Glades. Discover the remote beauty of a Native American tree island village where they used to live, one can only get to by boat. Witness alligators and other wildlife where they should be spotted, in the wild, and up close! Visit a historic trading post and other intriguing cultural and ecological stops. A delicious lunch is included.
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1. Miami
After pick up from your hotel in our new and comfortable 15 passenger vans, enjoy the ride out to Everglades National Park. Your guide will be sure to point out the abundant wildlife en route to your first stop!
2. Fort Lauderdale
We pick up in Fort Lauderdale and go directly out to the park. We try to cluster our pickups to limit the time on the van. Your guide will point out the abundant wildlife enroute.
3. Everglades National Park
Go on a 1-hour air boat ride that way out far from land in the River of Grass. This is your chance to see the endangered Everglades snail kite, large and small alligators, and much more; all where it should be experienced, up close and in the wild! Visit a Native tree island village or two where they used to live. You can only get there by boat and on this tour.
4. Miccosukee Indian Village
You will embark on an amazing 1 hour airboat journey way out onto the pristine "River of Grass". We will spend some time in a remote Miccosukee Village and we will also encounter a plethora of wildlife from wading birds to turtles, alligators and more!
5. Oasis Visitor Center
Big alligators live here.
6. Big Cypress National Preserve
Go on a nature walk led by your experienced naturalist in this pristine National Preserve that contains 5 of the 9 ecosystems found in the real Everglades. This beautiful walk will have you immersed in the unique flora and fauna of this region. The chance to go on a second walk in a different location as well. Take a remote scenic narrated drive, with a few stops to get out and experience wildlife, led by your experienced naturalist guide in the remote sections of this vast wilderness; which is home to the Florida panther, black bear, wild boar, Osceola turkey, white-tail deer, Florida bobcat, American alligator, an incredible array of bird species, and more.
7. Smallwood Store
Go back in time in this historic trading post, listed on the National Register of historic places. Learn about the rugged and authentic history of a time when only a few white settlers arrived, to trade with the Seminoles. Still owned by the same family today, ask questions about the lore of Old Florida.
8. Big Cypress Swamp Welcome Center
Great spot to potentially see manatees.
9. Chokoloskee
Enjoy a wonderful lunch. Order off the menu. Great local food with lots of fresh seafood choices as well as vegetarian and vegan options.
10. Southwest Gulf Coast
Enjoy an amazing boat trip through the 10,000 Islands of the Everglades National Park. You will have the potential to see dolphins, manatees, many wading and shore birds, white pelicans, saw fish, sea turtles and more.
11. Everglades City
This small town was recently named one of Smithsonian magazine's top 15 places to see in the United States. We will take a driving tour here in the "Stone Crab Capitol of the Wolrd" When in season we will stop at a local market where fresh off the docks stone crabs can be purchased. Store them in our cooler to be enjoyed later! We will also visit the famous Rod and Gun Club and the quaint musem of the town.

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Posted By : Elizabeth_S
This was an amazing day! Our favorite part was Cypress Domes but all was wonderful! Julia is fantastic!
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Posted On : 2024-05-06 10:08:52

Posted By : Ayu M
Two great boat tours (Mongroves / Everglades), lunch OK, small snacks and drinks included, the walk is manageable, a third canoe tour would be more interesting, for example, or a walk through the water. Because of the distances, you can't avoid a lot of sitting in the minivan...
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Posted On : 2024-05-05 22:38:02

Posted By : Theskater12
Great day trip that I can recommend to everyone! Everything was taken care of down to the last detail, from transport to food and even ponchos, sunscreen and snacks/drinks were constantly available. Lindsay guided our tour and enthusiastically told us a lot about the environment and the animals. During this tour they clearly work with respect for people and animals. They respect nature, which I think is very important. It was a great day. We were also lucky enough to find a bear a few meters away, which made the tour completely unforgettable. (Unfortunately, our propeller boat was canceled due to thunder, but that was understandable.)
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Posted On : 2024-05-01 23:23:10

Posted By : Navigate13305311098
Excellent experience. Our guide, Julia, was knowledgeable, energetic and engaging. This was the full day adventure that included dry nature walk to old cypress mound, motor boat around the 10,000 islands and the airboat through the Everglades. The boat guide, Tristan, was very good host. We saw dolphins, spoonbills, egrets, old alligators, baby alligators. Even got to hold a baby alligator! Highly recommend this if you want to experience the Everglades.
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Posted On : 2024-04-24 19:09:24

Posted By : Maps312100
I had the pleasure of going on a tour with Lindsay Lewis and it was an amazing experience. She was extremely knowledgeable and entertaining, bringing great energy to the group. Some highlights of the day included seeing alligators, manatees, petting a crocodile, and most memorably, seeing a baby dolphin and her mother swim alongside our boat. It was truly a worthwhile day, and I am grateful to have been a part of it.
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Posted On : 2024-04-19 13:58:05

Posted By : Janice_G
Seeing the alligators on the airboat ride. Ryan was awesome with giving the history for each tour. Loved the boat ride seeing the dolphins, birds and a manatee.
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Posted On : 2024-04-17 16:29:06

Posted By : Susan_S
Zack was great. He was very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the different animals and areas he was showing us. The boat ride with Tristan and Wylder was great. We saw a bunch of wildlife and each captain answered questions and gave insight into the different places they took us. Would recommend this tour to anyone wanting to see the everglades and surrounding national preserves.
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Posted On : 2024-04-16 18:59:01

Posted By : davideV1312BW
These guys are the best evre. Julia is a gem and so helpful. Met every expectation. They went the extra mile for us. Ubered us to the pick-up site and back to our hotel at noextra cost. I loved this tour. Highly recommend it to everyone. Not just a tour to see the Evergaldes, but helps you understand the interaction of the Earth, the animals and man over a 400 million time period. So interesting and explains all these changes and evolution of the origins of the state of Florida.
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Posted On : 2024-04-16 09:54:40

Posted By : U5040DCjulieg
The experience was in 2 part. First, the small walk with a biologist. She really know a lot about the environnment and the park. Really interested !

For the airboat with Tigertail, we stoped at a old pontoon. Here the airboat guide show us animals on captivity. A 1-2m crocodile on a 2m pool without structure. Just a pool with a branch. Didn't have space, didn't have sun. Same for baby alligator, turtles and exotic turtles.
Installation was durty, I didn't see food for animals. Turtles need plants to eat. Didn't see plants to.

He proposed us to tuch the crocodile and was so happy to said us "in Florida it's illegal but here we can it's a reserve". Why do you think it's illegal ? Maybe because it's cruel ?
He said "it's a rescue center". I working with rescue center in Canada and it's not one for sure. This animals didn't need help, they need to go on a real rescue center or on the environnment.

We are far than a eco tour sorry
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Posted On : 2024-04-14 20:23:53

Posted By : Jeremy M
Really cool experience! Our tour guide, Stacey, was very knowledgeable, friendly, and super willing to answer any questions we had! The tour reminded me of the diversity of life on this planet and educated me of the history of the Indian tribes here. While doing some activities, we had local tour guides as well so it was fun to get multiple perspectives. I also didn’t realize that we got both an air boat and motor boat ride, so that was fun. I appreciated that they handled all transportation for us so I didn’t need a car rental. I felt they did a good job managing that.
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Posted On : 2024-04-13 13:00:01