Taking Airboat Everglades Miami Tours

 

Taking Airboat Everglades Miami Tours


Airboats are perhaps the most familiar thing to ever be associated with the Everglades. In fact, old-timers may recall a television series in the 1960s entitled The Everglades where the clear star of the show is the airboat. This crime and adventure drama series was conceptualized by Miami native and avid outdoorsman Albert Wilmore and starred Ron Hayes, also an outdoors enthusiast. Wilmore was an experienced airboat driver while Hayes eventually became one and ultimately fell in love with airboats as the series came to its end. The words airboat, Everglades, Miami and adventure will always be intertwined with one another.


For those who want to relive the defunct television show or at least get to know what it feels like to ride them, airboat Everglades Miami tours are readily available nowadays. Many business-minded fellows recognized the potential of the Everglades national park as prime tourist destinations and have established a number of tour companies throughout the years.


Ever since the Everglades Tours National park was established in 1947, this World Heritage Site has become the mecca for people who are out for the adventure of their lives. Even those who aim to be closer to nature have visited the site. As a matter of fact, the Everglades National Park receives an estimated one million visitors every year. If this hasn’t piqued your curiosity yet then having the knowledge that the Everglades is one of only three locations in the planet that has been named to the Ramsar list of Wetlands of International Importance, an International Biosphere Reserve and a World Heritage Site just might do the trick.


Going on an airboat tour of the Everglades will take you through the Gulf Coast Visitor Center which is known as the gateway to the Ten Thousand Islands, a group of mangrove islands and waterways that stretches from cape Romano to just before the Lostman’s River.The waterways occupy 99 miles from the Everglades City to Flamingo and Florida Bay making it a perfect spot for airboat rides and other water activities. The Everglades is commonly mistaken as a swamp. In reality, it is a slow flowing shallow river. The water flow is so slow that only a quarter of a mile flows through in a whole day. This and its shallowness account for the misconception of it being a swamp.


What adds to the popularity of airboat Everglades Miami tours are the diversity of nature one will encounter during such trips. Among those who call the Everglades home are a number of rare and endangered species. If you’re lucky, you might get to see some of them eye to eye. Even if you decide on staying dry and exploring the hiking trails in the preserve, you will be treated to a multitude of natural wonders like scenic views and different exotic animals including alligators, snakes, and birds. You can go a step further and camp out in the wilderness and be one with nature. A vacation in the Everglades will surely meet if not surpass anyone’s expectations. 

 

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