Fort Myers Beach Trip 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.
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Duration: 9 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Fort Myers Beach, United States
Trip Category: Outdoor Activities >> Eco Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Fort Myers Beach, Florida, United States
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.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Airboats & Alligators, 6001 Lake Trafford Rd, Immokalee, FL 34142, USA
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!
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
Stop At: Big Cypress National Preserve, 33100 Tamiami Trl E, Ochopee, FL 34141-1000
Wildlifedrive through the back country of the first Preserve in the National Park system.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Island Cafe, 305 Collier Ave, Everglades City, FL 34139, USA
Enjoy lunch in the heart of the Everglades with a choice of over over 20 items including burgers, chicken, fish and salads.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Smallwood Store Boat Tour, 360 Mamie St, Chokoloskee, FL 34138, USA
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.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Stop At: Smallwood Store, 360 Mamie St. Everglades National Park area, Chokoloskee, FL 34138
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.
Duration: 25 minutes
Stop At: Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, 137 Coastline Drive, Copeland, FL 34137
Nature Walk through a grove of ancient cypress trees out to a “gator hole” where female alligators have been nesting for decades.
Duration: 1 hour
