Spirit of the Swamp Airboat Tours

Matt and Sarah Richardson went on an airboat tour with us earlier this month.  Please check out their review on Trip Advisor:  http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g34601-d1105578-r28642320-Spirit_of_the_Swamp_Airboat_Tours-Saint_Cloud_Florida.html

 Here’s a snippet of the review:

I would highly recommend this tour to anyone and we cannot wait till we return again next year to try and organise a longer tour.

 Matt & Sarah:

Breathtaking Dead River

 Gator Swimming

Gator Walking off the Bank

Crested Caracara Eating a Fish

I’ll say it again… our passengers take some of the best photos and I just love to share them with you!  Peter McVeigh from the UK took this incredible alligator photo on an airboat ride with us Easter Monday.  I just received this email from Peter and these incredible photos:

Hi Debi, sorry for the delay in contacting you to thank you fro a wonderful airboat ride back on Easter morning…it was excellent. We all enjoyed it so much.

I have finally downloaded the photos of the gators, the one with the mouth open is quite good!

Thanks again and take care…Pete, Angie & Gloria,  Dorset, England

I think the photos speak for themselves:

The beautiful and elusive Crested Caracara has been spotted on our recent airboat tours!  This feisty bird is on the “Threatened” list, which means it is on the way to becoming endangered. 

The Crested Caracara is a raptor, but it’s unusual in that it will spend a lot of it’s time on the ground, as you can see from these photographs taken this week by Lorie.  There are times that a pair of caracaras will even work together as a team – and we saw this in action as well… the pair of caracaras were fighting an American Bald Eagle for a fish on the bank.  And it looked to us like the pair was winning the battle!  Every day is different on our airboat rides and we enjoy being surprised over and over again by incredible Florida wildlife.

Here are the Caracara pictures I took yesterday.    I did get some other great shots and will send you a few under separate cover.

Thanks again for a great adventure.  My dad had a blast and was showing off the video last night.  Lorie Slawsky, Lake Mary, Florida

Thanks for sharing your photos with us Lorie!