Everglades Tours

Each adventure features door-to-door pickups in Fort Myers Beach. Alternate pickup locations are available for Fort Myers, Bonita Springs, Naples and other southwest Florida locations. Transportation is in a climate controlled comfy passenger van with a knowledgeable and fun Naturalist guide. Leave the driving and the work of planning a fun itinerary in the Everglades to us!

• Everglades Adventure Tour

(approximately 8AM-5PM) includes narrated transportation with a naturalist guide, alligator exhibit with an opportunity to handle a small alligator, an hour long airboat ride through the Everglades sawgrass prairie and marsh, plus lunch in Everglades City, a visit to a historic Indian/pioneer trading post museum, tour of everglades city, a visit to an interactive reptile and exotic bird sanctuary where you have the opportunity to handle snakes, alligators, tortoises, and exotic birds, and a wildlife drive in search of and to view large alligators and birds in the wild.

Everglades Express Tour

(approximately 9AM to 1PM) is also available and includes narrated transportation with a naturalist guide, an hour long airboat ride through the Everglades sawgrass prairie and marsh, and an alligator exhibit with an opportunity to handle a small alligator.

Additional details on Everglades Adventure Tour features (they are not sold separately):

Airboat Ride

Both the Full day Adventure tour and the Express tour include taking a thrilling hour long ride on the Everglades’ most famous transportation – the airboat! Glide through the sawgrass prairies and around the palm hammocks surrounding the Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park. Look for alligators, birds and other wildlife.

These airboats are operated and narrated by U.S. Coast Guard licensed native captains who have been driving airboats all their lives.

Historic Indian and Pioneer Trading Post

Step way back in time on the non-commercialized Island of Chokoloskee. Ted Smallwood’s store opened around the turn of the century as a trading post for Seminole Indians and local pioneers. Located at the Southernmost point on the Gulf Coast “mainland”, it borders on the wilderness of the 10,000 Islands of Everglades National Park. Loaded with artifacts – see how the pioneer Everglades inhabitants used to live. You’ll be amazed at what you find.

Lunch – Seafood Depot Restaurant

Well known as the best restaurant in Everglades City. Featured in the Hollywood film “Winds Across The Everglades”, you’ll be sitting where the railroad tracks used to be. Lunch includes your choice of eight entrees, one of which is all-you-can-eat salad bar with peel and eat shrimp. Included are non-alcoholic beverages, alligator tail appetizer, tax and tip. A full bar is also available.

Everglades City Tour

Explore this small village that time passed by. Learn its fascinating history and culture while being transported in air-conditioned comfort. Find out why Hollywood views this town as an ideal location for films about the Everglades. See the famous Rod & Gun Club where American Presidents stay, the Everglades Bank where the money in the vault got flooded, the crabbing industry and more.  

Ochopee Post Office

This is the smallest post office in the U.S. (and probably the world). Featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not, you’ve got to see it to believe it. Get the world famous postmark. The postmistress is always happy to answer your questions. This “facility” serves 1500 residents, of which about 900 are American Indians.
 

Interactive Animal Experience

See both native and exotic animals up close and personal with Naturalist Rick as he teaches you about these fascinating animals. Hold a live but friendly alligator, 50 pound snakes, tropical parrots & macaws, tortoises and others for a picture if you care to dare. This animal sanctuary is also widely known as ground zero for the legendary Everglades skunk ape. It’s far more than a petting zoo and it sure isn’t Disney World!

Nature Drive

Take a drive on the wild side – in the Big Cypress National Preserve. See alligators, turtles and tropical birds in this freshwater cypress swamp area of the Everglades. Learn to identify native flora such as bromeliad epiphytes, Spanish moss, cypress trees and the many varieties of palms. Gain an appreciation of the fragile Everglades eco system.

We also offer dolphin wildlife tours at Ft Myers Beach – www.goodtimecharter.com