Small Group Boat, Kayak and Walking Guided Eco Tour Everglades
- 3h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
This very popular eco-adventure and combines the best of a boat tour, a kayak tour and a walking tour in a single great learning experience. Depending on the season, you can encounter manatees, dolphins, sea turtles, bald eagles, ospreys, herons, egrets, pelicans, roseate spoonbills and/or numerous species of fish and shore birds. A very comfortable transport boat will bring you deep into Everglades National Park with your Florida Master Naturalist guide. Once at the first destination, the tour slows down using very stable, comfortable kayaks to get you close to the flora and fauna. Imagine paddling next to a manatee or a dolphin! (No previous kayaking experience is required and there are single and two-person kayaks on every tour). Continue your interpretive experience with a walking tour on remote, pristine barrier island beach … a beach that is seldom visited by others. Note: June through October, we suggest the morning experiences due to the weather.
Inclusions
What's included
- Professional guide
- Guided nature hike
- Kayak equipment and instruction
- Boat ride
- Professional naturalist guide
What's not
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
Itinerary
Meet your ground and guide and begin your Everglade Experience. Each trip is led by an experienced Florida Master Naturalist who is certified by the National Park and licensed by the US Coast Guard.
Get the ultimate experience of the Florida Everglades on this fun, exciting eco-adventure by boat, kayak and foot! Your tour is led by an experienced naturalist who is certified by the national park and licensed by the US Coast Guard. Throughout your tour, your guide will teach you all about the history of the area, as well as the wildlife and diverse vegetation. Begin your tour with a boat ride through some of the most beautiful and remote areas of the Everglades National Park. Once you arrive at your destination, receive a brief safety instruction before getting into your kayak (no experience required) and exploring the area up close. Paddle your way to Barrier Island Beach, a remote beach seldom visited by others. Here, take a guided walking tour of the area and see the wrack lines, shallow tidal zones, dunes, uniquely adapted plants, mangrove swamps and many different invertebrate species. Your guide will tailor the tour according to the group’s interests and the day’s environmental conditions. You may encounter a wide array of the park’s wildlife including manatees, dolphins, sea turtles, bald eagles, ospreys, herons, egrets, roseate spoonbills and more! After your hike on the beach, get back into your kayak and paddle back to the boat for your return journey.
The 10,000 Islands extend from Marco Island into Everglades National Park.
Chokoloskee was the "Wild Southeast". Learn about the history and culture of the area.
Chokoloskee is a 150 acre island that has been inhabited for 1000's of years. First by the Calusa indians and then by modern settlers since 1870.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Ratings come from 165 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
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5Absolutely do it!
Absolutely fantastic. Very knowledgeable guide, incredibly patient and supportive of the paddlers. Beautiful flora and fauna!
5Highlight of our trip!
Amazing tour with such a knowledgeable guide. The entire experience was perfect and we learned so much about the area.
1Aquaterra Excursions: easily preventable bad time
The website and/or guide could easily have recommended super heavy duty clothing or even provided a few critical items (like apparently other guide services did for their clients). The mosquitos were so bad we couldn’t enjoy any of this, and seeing/hearing the unescapable pain my family was in was brutal. We’ve done similar Everglades kayak tours before so we showed up in reasonable clothing drenched head to toe in repellant, and this worked very well previously. The guide (Guy) showed up dressed like a beekeeper with heavy duty clothing, gloves, a hat/mosquito net, with no visible skin. If the service knew we'd be paddling into an inescapable onslaught, it would have been helpful if the website recommended dressing this way to clients. We met Guy at a local gas station that sells such items/ clothing, and if Guy knew we were headed into what he later said “had been one of the worst mosquito periods [he’d] ever seen lately”, it would have really helpful had he recommended gearing up a lot more. Instead, we all set off into the mangroves and into a pulsating fog of mosquitos. No additional clothing/ gloves/ netting was offered by the service/our guide, which was particularly infuriating after we passed multiple other tours whose participants reported that their guides had given their clients gloves and hats/mosquito nets etc. Once we were out in the mangroves, there was no escape from getting constantly needled from head to toe. We counted the seconds until we could get out of there. I’m just glad that Guy, dressed in his beekeeper outfit, could find humor in the situation by pointing out multiple times that “man, the bugs are really eating you guys alive” and “hey, your Dad seems pretty angry”. But I think Guy had a good time, and thankfully he really didn’t seem to be bothered by the mosquitos at all.
5A great way to experience the everglades
Our guide was awesome - we learned a lot about the local flora and fauna and kept the tour fun and light.
5Fantastic tour in the...
Fantastic tour in the Everglades National Park! This is out in the ocean so no alligators but saw 4 dolphins (by kayak and jumping our boat waves), many different birds, tons of crabs, and learned a lot about the the history and ecology of the area. Captain Don is a true pro!
5So glad I was able to experience!
I can’t imagine a better tour guide than Don! He is so interesting and knowledgeable. His enthusiasm is contagious and you definitely realize that he has a deep love and regard for this beautiful area
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Our meet location is Parkway Marina at 1180 Chokoloskee Dr, Chokoloskee, FL 34138 Please plan to arrive 10-15 minutes early. Please know that refunds are NOT provided if you miss the tour. When you arrive at Parkway Marina, please park on the right hand side in the parking spots. Meet at the dock.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 6 travellers
- Operated by
- Everglades Area Tours
- Service animals allowed
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- You will need to access the boat by decending a couple steps of a ladder.
How it compares in Everglades National Park
- Its from-price is 36% above the median of the 22 experiences we list in Everglades National Park.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 1 of 22.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Everglades National Park
Everglades National Park protects the southern tip of Florida's great river of grass, a wetland of sawgrass, mangroves, alligators and wading birds.
Everglades National Park covers the southern end of the Florida peninsula, the largest protected part of the Everglades, a shallow river of grass that flows slowly south to Florida Bay. Sawgrass marsh, hardwood hammocks, pinelands, cypress swamp and a tangled mangrove coast make up the landscape. The park was dedicated in 1947 and is also a World Heritage Site.
Top-ranked sights in Everglades National Park: Marco Island, Ten Thousand Islands, Big Cypress National Preserve.
