Everglades Day Safari from Fort Myers/Naples Area

4.8 (354 reviews) Fort Myers, USA
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Duration9h 30m
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LanguagesEnglish
Group sizeUp to 9 travelers
Pickup offeredSee the meeting and pickup details below

Overview

Spend a full day exploring the wilderness of the Everglades on this adventure from the Greater Fort Myers/Naples area. With your naturalist guide, take an exciting airboat ride in the Western Everglades, see wildlife on a drive through Big Cypress National Preserve, admire towering cypress trees on a nature walk, and enjoy a relaxing boat cruise along mangrove-lined waters to see manatees, dolphins and osprey. Your guide will teach you all about the Everglades and accompany you to lunch.

What's included

  • Narrated van tour
  • Expert naturalist or biologist guide
  • Lunch
  • 1-hour airboat ride
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off (Only Select Hotels)
  • Transport by air-conditioned 13-passenger van
  • 1-hour boat cruise
  • Gratuities

What to expect

  1. 1h 10m · Admission ticket included
    Considered the best airboat ride in the Everglades, you'll be taken through the pond apple swamps and cattail marshes in search of alligators, turtles, birds and more!
  2. Big Cypress National Preserve
    1h · Admission ticket included
    Wildlifedrive through the back country of the first Preserve in the National Park system.
  3. 45m · Admission ticket included
    Enjoy lunch in the heart of the Everglades with a choice of over over 20 items including burgers, chicken, fish and salads.
  4. 1h · Admission ticket included
    Journey through the "Ten Thousand Islands" in Everglades National Park, the 2nd largest mangrove forest in the world where you will seek out dolphin, manatee and other species of coastal wildlife in the southern most frontier.
  5. Smallwood Store
    25m · Admission ticket included
    Step back in time and explore the historic Smallwoods Store Museum. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the museum stands frozen in time, a window to a bygone era when the store was the islands trading post and island life revolved around the activities here.
  6. Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
    1h · Admission ticket included
    Nature Walk through a grove of ancient cypress trees out to a "gator hole" where female alligators have been nesting for decades.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

Guide will meet guests in front of the lobby around 8:00am.

Meeting point

Guide will meet guests in the south end of the Perkins Restaurant parking lot near the Dairy Queen at 7:30am.

End point

Guide will meet guests in front of the lobby around 8:00am.

End point

Guide will meet guests in the south end of the Perkins Restaurant parking lot near the Dairy Queen at 7:30am.

Additional information

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Minimum age is 6 years old
  • Hat, sunscreen and sunglasses are recommended
  • Strollers are not permitted
  • Please note: if your hotel is not on the list provided then pickup will be at the Perkins Restaurant, 14801 South Tamiami Trail, Fort Myers, FL 33908 at 7:35 am

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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