Southwest Florida is home to 7,800 square miles of subtropical wilderness called the Everglades. Just outside of Naples in Everglade City there are 2 unique ways to learn more about this diverse ecosystem.
Our first stop is at Captain Jack's Airboat Tours where Boat Captain Mark Hickman talks us through the tour and what it includes.
The best way to tour the mangroves is on an airboat. The mangrove trees are an integral part of the everglades, they serve as not only a nursery for the fish species that inhabit this area but also the mangrove swamps have been protecting the coastline from storms and hurricanes for years and years. On a typical tour it's very common to spot wading birds, shore birds, we get hundreds of species of fish here in the area, fresh water species right alongside salt water species, land animals like the American alligator and crocodile. We work our way down the barren river into one of the first creeks which penetrates the mangrove swamp. We stay within the narrow creeks in the mangrove swamp until we make our way back out into the river. This is the second largest mangrove forest on the planet. If you want to anywhere to find a larger one, you have to go all the way to India. To experience all of that from a seat on an airboat is the experience of a lifetime.
For a slower pace tour of the everglades, there's Wooten's and their swamp buggy eco tours. With their elevated deck, you have a unique vantage point to see the unique grasslands wildlife. Jimbo Creber is a Swamp Buggy Guide and he's going to walk us through the tour.
We're in Ochopee, Florida surrounded by Big Cyprus National Park. We've been working real hard at keeping all the Everglades we can. We do have close to 5,000,000 acres of land. The grasslands of the everglades are a very important part of the ecosystem. This ecosystem's fed by rainwater and it's feeding the Gulf of Mexico. All those nutrients that are flowing through these grasses are getting pushed out to the gulf and it runs through the mangrove trees and that feeds the ecosystem and estuaries of all the fish.
A typical swamp buggy tour lasts about an hour adn takes you places only accessible by this unique form of transportation.
The benefits of a swamp buggy would be the slower movement. It's a lot quieter so the animal life is a lot less distracted allowing you to get closer to the wildlife. They see all kinds of birds, wildlife, fish and alligators and nothing seems to be bothered by the buggy. You'll see tree scratches from black bears showing how high they go up. You'll get the history of the Everglades, a ride through an ecosystem that you can't walk through. You'll see parts of the Everglades that people don't get to see.
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