The family and I are going on vacation to Florida in early March and want to do an Everglades fan boat tour. Can anyone recommend an guide/outfitter/whatever you call them? Or I suppose maybe more important, if you had a bad experience, share that with me? Thanks!
Everglades Boat tour suggestions
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CRJR45
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Everglades Holiday Park is about the biggest , they have covered boats so you don't have to deal the elements , kinda cool place all around .
CRJR45
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He's a friend of mine , Bass on Okeechobee , Peacock Bass in Miami , or offshore for Dolphin , he does it all .
CRJR45
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Yes , but they're bigger with a top so you're out of the sun , and they stay in the canals as opposed to running over the vegetation . Lots to see big gators and birds .
Excuse the ignorant questions as I know nothing about this, but wouldn't we want to go out of the channels on a smaller boat to see things? My kids love animals, so seeing critters would be nice (gators and stuff). At this point, I really don't know the right questions to ask or how to plan this thing! I will check out their website now!
Birdbander
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I took my girls on an airboat tour with Captain Jacks out of Everglade City a few years ago. It was a fun ride through the mangroves. Open air, smaller boats. Entertaining driver. Seen plenty of wildlife, even a family of raccoons that the boas constrictors hadn't gotten to yet. I'm neither endorsing nor negatively criticizing, just info.
JShane
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Running through the cattails and sometimes Sawgrass without a cover translates to being covered in said vegetation. It doesn't all lay down as they drive over it. Flies up in your face. Along with every insect attached to said vegetation.
JShane
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Even in the channels down around the everglades there will be a lot to see.
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