Everglades Area Tours

10/04/2026

Our guide, boat Captain Don McCumber, always enjoys taking guests on low tide walks. The things that we find are amazing! This was a group from the Sierra Club.

Don takes a group out for a low tide walk, and finds some fascinati...

09/29/2026

One of the things that we look forward to seeing, from late October through March, is the flocks of American White Pelicans that come down to Everglades National Park, in the 10,000 Islands. These are HUGE birds, with a wingspan of NINE FEET!!! Second only to the California Condor in the USA. Book a tour with us to see these magnificent birds, and bring your camera!

09/11/2026

Spotted during our Birding, Dolphin and Wildlife tour yesterday. This is a Great White Heron - the rare white color morph of the Great Blue Heron! This bird is much larger than the Great Egret. The Great Egret has black legs - check this out!

09/02/2026

13 years ago today, our boat Captain & guide, Don McCumber, shot this video in the morning twilight as Diana Nyad approached Key West during her epic swim. Nyad swam 110 miles, without ever holding onto her support boat or kayaks. It took her 53 hours to complete the swim from Cuba to Key West. Don was the Captain of Diana's kayak team. In this video you can see the glow of Key West, and you can just make out twinkling lights on the horizon ahead of Diana. She is wearing a small red light on the back of her swim cap.

08/18/2026

The Martini family came from Germany, and were hoping to see dolphins! They were able to see them close up during our tour!

08/18/2026

The Martini family came to the Everglades from Germany, and were hoping to see dolphins. Guess what???

08/17/2026

A very rare sight, during today's "Dolphin, Birding, and Wildlife" tour! A baby Smalltooth Sawfish! This one is about 2 1/2 feet long. These fish are members of a family that includes rays and sharks. The adults can grow to be as much as 18 feet in length! Book a tour with us at (239) 695-3633
To report a smalltooth sawfish sighting or capture in Florida, email the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission at [email protected] or call 941-255-7403

08/13/2026

This time of year, manatees (Chubby Mermaids) can be hard to spot, because they move from their winter locations to scattered seagrass beds near the shores of the 10,000 Islands. One of our tour groups was able to witness this mating congregation of manatees, up close! Watch!

We spotted a group of manatees while doing a boat-assisted kayak tr...

08/12/2026

Manatees! Phone video from this morning's Boat Assisted Kayak tour, with Everglades Area Tours:

08/12/2026

Did you know?
Sea Sq**rts are our distant relatives? Our guide can tell you all about it.
Tunicates, or sea squirts, are surprising evolutionary cousins to humans. Despite looking like simple, stationary blobs as adults, their free-swimming larvae possess a notochord, dorsal nerve cord, and post-anal tail. These shared traits place tunicates into the phylum Chordata, making them our closest living invertebrate relatives.

One of the fascinating invertebrates that I occasionally find while...