Airboat Ride in Everglades City

April 8, 2015

My family came for a visit the week after Easter.  Although we did many fun things I wanted to highlight our air boat ride in the Everglades City.  We chose Speedy Johnson's air boat since my brother recommended them.  It was a good choice.  Although we didn't see any alligators.....the water is too salty this time of year and the alligators are fresh water predators....we did see a raccoon and a dolphin.  The fun part of the trip was how fast the boat was speeding around the everglades.  I was sure glad that had noise resistance headphone for our ears.  We would have gone deaf with out them.

Steve.....our captain of the boat.  He was Coast Guard certified as we learned all boat captains have to be to operate an air boat.

Some other air boats we passed




And of course......

Rocky the raccoon.  Although he is nocturnal naturally in most other states he comes out at low tide looking for food.  People have trained him to beg.  Some of the people did feed him.  He stood up on his hind legs and begged for food from our boat but we had nothing to share.