Spirit of the Swamp Airboat Tours

After a rainy day on Monday, the rest of the week has brought us very little rains in the afternoon, and it’s been hot, hot, hot!  Because our airboat rides are in the Central Florida area, we’re obviously tuned into the typical summertime weather patterns – cool in the morning, heating up during the day and afternoon thunderstorms.   That’s exactly why we recommend starting your airboat tour in the morning.

A lot of our passenger’s think that that the gators will be laying on the banks during the summertime… actually they can’t.  Since they’re cold blooded, they’d heat up too quickly. 

But this week has been the exception – hardly any rains and very hot afternoons.  This means that the gators aren’t very active and tend to stay under water most of the time, where it’s cooler, this week.  So believe it or not, we’re keeping our fingers crossed that the weather pattern returns back to normal soon, so we get those cooling afternoon rains, which in turn, cool the water and make the gators swim around more actively!

We’re pretty excited – we shot an airboat video yesterday morning!  The airboat experience video is for one of the tourism organizations here in the local Central Florida area.  Ed with Dawson Video in Kissimmee was filming the video.  We took Ed on one of our “FLORIDA CRACKER” trips into the beautiful Dead River and I know he was able to get some amazing shots of our deep swamp “real deal” local airboat tour.

Ed was willing to even get out of the airboat, so we gave him some rubber boots and set him up in the marsh.  He was then able to video our famous 360 degree spins, which our passengers absolutely love and should look incredible on video!

We’ll keep you posted and let you know where to find the video in just a few weeks!

A lot of our passengers tell us that taking an airboat ride while on their Florida Vacation is absolutely a “must do” experience.  An airboat tour is quintessentially Florida!   And no other experience will get you as up close and personal to Florida’s beautiful outdoors than riding an airboat. 

Take some Florida sunshine, add in an exotic swamp local, mix with a little speed and fresh air, and what do you get?  An airboat ride of course!  Best of all, its fun for the entire family.