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SOUTH FLORIDA ATTRACTIONS
Airboats, airplanes, alligators, animals, beaches, boats, bets, bingo, catamarans, crocodiles, Corkscrew Swamp and zoological parks... South Florida is a vacation playground, and you will find an endless assortment of activities that are fun for everyone.
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Everglades Area Tours - Guided Kayak and Canoe Eco-tours, bicycle tours, hiking tours, guided fishing trips, powerboat eco-tours, airplane and airboat tours of the Everglades and 10,000 area, Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve and Fakahatchee Strand.
MIAMI AREA ATTRACTIONS:
Bayside Marketplace -
401 Biscayne Boulevard. 577-3344
Coral Castle -
28655 S Dixie Hwy(Homestead Area) 248-6344
Fairchild Tropical Garden - 10901 Old Cutler Rd. 667-1651
Metro Zoo -
12400 SW 152 St. 251-0400
Miccosukee Indian Village
30 miles W. on Tamiami Trail. 223-8380
Monkey Jungle -
14805 SW 216 St. 235-1611
Parrot Jungle & Gardens -
1111 Parrot Jungle Trail. 1-305-400-7228
Seaquarium -
4400 Rickenbacker Causeway, Key Biscayne. 1-305-361-5705
Spanish Monastery -
16711 W Dixie Hwy, N. Miami Beach. 945-1461
Viscaya Museum & Gardens -
3251 S. Miami Ave. 579-2813
Flagler Greyhound Track -
401 NW 38th Court,
Miami.
305-649-3000
Gulfstream Park.- 901 South Federal Hwy. Hallandale. 944-1242
Miami Jai-Alai -
3500 NW 37th Avenue,
Miami.
305-633-6400
Big Cypress National Preserve
Winter is the ideal season for visiting the Big Cypress National Preserve. The weather is relatively mild during the winter months, and it is also the dry season. Dry is a relative term in the cypress strands, however; be prepared to wade through some shallow water on the trails. The Oasis Visitors Center, open daily from 8:30 to 4:30, is located in the heart of the Preserve, off the Tamiami Trail, US highway 41. Take in the short film on the region and ask about the various ranger-led activities. During the winter months, ranger lead walks through featured trails and offer campfire programs and canoe trips down the Turner River to Chokoloskee Bay, where you'll share the water with alligators, egrets and ibis. If you're lucky, you might catch sight of a purple gallinule, ostentatiously dressed in teal feathers and crowned in bright blue. Canoeists may also make the four-hour trip themselves.read more about Big Cypress National Preserve in Southwest Florida >>
NAPLES - MARCO ISLAND - EVERGLADES AREA ATTRACTIONS:
Seminole Indian Casino - Casino Gaming - 506 S. First St., Immokolee 800-218-0007
Las Vegas style fun at the Seminole Indian Casino. High stakes bingo, live action poker, featuring 7 card stud, 5 card stud, and frequent tournaments, and high paying video gaming machines. Special dining deals, cocktail lounge, and nightly entertainment 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 40 miles east of Naples. Free transportation from Naples, Marco and Bonita.
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary - Sanctuary Road, 18 miles east of I-75 239-348-9151
In 1954, the National Audubon Society bought 22 square miles of wetlands including the last stand of old growth cypress in North America. A 2 ½ mile boardwalk snakes through towering cypress, sawgrass prairie, and lettuce lakes. You'll often see alligators, turtles, and many types of birds in their natural habitat. A unique opportunity to experience Florida as it was thousands of years ago.
Wooten's Everglades Airboat Tours - Airboat/Swamp Tours - Ochopee 800-282-2781
Airboat tours, swamp buggy rides, and alligator farm. Wooten's is the original airboat ride (1951), offering air boat and swamp buggy tours through the Everglades on the family's private reserve. Wooten's alligator farm features hundreds of alligators, crocodiles, venomous snakes, and a family of rare Florida panthers. Gift shop and snacks. 35 miles east of Naples on historic Tamiami Trail.
Naples Trolley Tours - Sightseeing & Transportation Stops throughout Naples 239-598-1050
See the best of Naples on board this fully narrated open-air Trolley tour, covering over 100 points of interest - shopping areas, Old Naples, beaches, and more. Stop along the way as often as you like to shop, dine, or stroll the neighborhoods, then re-board the trolley to continue your tour for one low fare. Serves all the major hotels.
Caribbean Gardens - Zoological Park 1590 Goodlette Road N., Naples 239-262-5409
The Tetzlaf family's 52 acre botanical garden with forest walks leading to animal exhibits and shows featuring endangered Everglades panthers, rare albino tigers, gazelles, lions, kangaroos, alligators, and more. New Safari Canyon adds wildlife footage and graphics on video monitors to animal demonstrations. Primate Exhibition Cruise, Scales and Tails Show for kids, gift shop and more.
Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge
Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge is characterized by lush tropical vegetation. Rare orchids, bromeliad, royal palms, and cypress intermix with stands of oaks, cabbage palms, and gumbo limbo. Slash pine with saw palmetto understory lie adjacent to wet prairies blooming with glades lobelia, tickseed and prairie milkweed. This diversity of habitats depends upon the seasonal dry and wet cycles that define the south Florida climate. Summer brings daily rain showers that flood much of the refuge. The water slowly sheet-flows across the flat landscape. This water is not only the lifeblood of the refuge, but recharges the underground aquifers that supply the refuge's urban neighbors. As the days shorten, the daily rain showers disappear, and for the next six months the wet prairies and swamps dry out. ...read more about Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge in Southwest Florida >>
J.N. Ding Darling
National Wildlife Refuge
The refuge includes over 6,300 acres of habitat, with 2,825 acres designated as Wilderness, and 950 acres of submerged habitat in the Tarpon Bay Recreation Area. The refuge informs and educates over 800,000 visitors annually in its 12,000 square foot Environmental Education Center and four-mile long Wildlife Drive. The refuge is home to 238 bird species, 51 species of reptiles and amphibians, and 32 species of mammals native to southwest Florida.....read more about J.N. Ding Darling
National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island Florida >>
Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge
The 500-acre refuge has been expanded to over 17 islands and consists of densely forested red and black mangroves with little uplands habitat. Indian shell mounds located on Benedict Island show evidence of Calusa Indians once inhabiting the area at the time of European exploration. Several of the islands, including Hemp Island and Bird Key, are important nesting and roosting areas for colonial birds, particularly the Brown pelican......read more about Pine Island
National Wildlife Refuge north of Sanibel Island Florida >>
Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge
A maze of mangrove islands and waterways defines the Ten Thousands Islands National Wildlife Refuge. These islands, covered in dark green mangrove trees, serve as roosts for birds and nurseries for fish. Narrow beaches, shaded by sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Jamaican dogwood, lie along the Gulf of Mexico. On all of the islands, black mangroves with their pencil-shaped pneumatophores mix with red mangroves with their tangled prop roots and the less salt-tolerant white mangroves. North of the mangrove forests is the fresh and brackish water marshes that are carpeted with cattails, bulrushes, cordgrass, and black needle rush. Small ponds and prairies intermix with white and red mangrove saplings. Small islands in the northern part of the refuge provide enough high ground for slash pine, live oak cabbage palms and pigeon plum.......read more about Ten Thousand Islands
National Wildlife Refuge near Everglades City Florida >>
Cool Beans Cruises
Set Sail Onboard "Cool Beans", a New 35 Ft. Catamaran, and Have the Time of Your Life!
Specializing in small groups of 3 to 6 guests, you can escape from the crowds for a Personalized 3 Hour Day Sightseeing or Champagne Sunset Cruise in the beautiful pristine waters of the Gulf of Mexico. See Naples and Marco Island the way they are meant to be seen, By Water!
Taking small group on our "Cool Beans" Catamaran allows us to really get to know our guests. We have a fun time together, treating each guest like a member of our own family. With over 30 years of experience navigating the Florida waterways & the Gulf of Mexico, Captain Kelly's certification by the U.S. Coast Guard assures you an experience that is fun, safe and comfortable. We're attuned to all of your needs, including providing beverages and tasty snacks for your cruise. Whether your interests are nature, sunsets, swimming, shelling or sightseeing, we offer you a fun-filled cruising adventure.Prices start as low as $50/guest for a 3 hour cruise. Full Day and Extended Charters are also available.
As we set sail, nature enthusiasts delight in the abundant sights and sounds of sea life, wildlife and tropical vegetation along the shores of Naples and Marco Island. Watch dolphins leaping before your eyes and manatees swimming among mangrove-dense coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Get a close up view of ospreys, eagles, herons and other birds native to Southwest Florida in their natural habitat. Our excursions include visits to unspoiled Naples and Marco Island beaches where you may explore, swim and collect shells. Naples beaches have been voted among the top 10 beaches in the U.S. by National Geographic Traveler and The Travel Channel. For Information and Reservations, Please Contact Captain Kelly at (239) 777-0020
FLORIDA KEYS AREA ATTRACTIONS:
Key West National Wildlife Refuge
Key West National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds and other wildlife. This refuge was the first established in the Florida Keys and one of the earliest refuges in the United States. The refuge encompasses more than 200,000 acres with only 2,000 acres of land. The area is home to more than 250 species of birds and is important for sea turtle nesting. The islands are predominately mangrove with a few beaches and salt ponds........read more about Key West
National Wildlife Refuge on Big Pine Key near Key West Florida >>
National Key Deer Refuge National Wildlife Refuge
The National Key Deer Refuge was established in 1957 to protect and preserve Key deer and other wildlife resources in the Florida Keys. The refuge is located in the lower Florida Keys and currently consists of approximately 9,200 acres of land that includes pine rockland forests, tropical hardwood hammocks, freshwater wetlands, salt marsh wetlands, and mangrove forests. These natural communities are critical habitat for hundreds of endemic and migratory species including 17 federally-listed species such as Key deer, lower Keys marsh rabbit, and silver rice rat.
...read more about Key Deer
National Wildlife Refuge on Big Pine Key near Key West Florida >>
Dry Tortugas National Park
This 16-acre Key is dominated by the imposing form of Fort Jefferson, which takes up 11 acres of the land on the island. Allow at least an hour to explore this majestic structure. Known as the Gibraltar of the Gulf, or America's Devil's Island, the fort boasts 8-foot thick walls rising 50 feet into the air. 2000 arches support 3 tiers of gun emplacements for 450 guns. Part of a plan originally proposed by Thomas Jefferson to prevent coastal attacks, engineer Simon Bernard designed a chain of fortresses from Maine to Mississippi, though work on Fort Jefferson did not start until 1846.
...read more about Dry Tortugas
National Park near Key West Florida >>
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