Blending natural beauty and adventure, every Everglades Day Safari includes:
Airboat Ride - Explore the Western Everglades on an exciting one-hour trip aboard an airboat. This wild adventure enables you to see an amazing array of wildlife up-close. The 'Glades are renowned for its unparalleled density of alligators.
Business located directly on the Estero River. The river offers a relaxing paddle through the historic state park on brackish, spring fed tidal waters, 4.5 miles long. Explore on your own, or book customized trip. Open year 'round.
Estero Island Parasail has year-round parasailing on Fort Myers Beach. Our state-of-the-art equipment and professional staff will make your parasailing adventure exciting and enjoyable. We offer shuttle boat service from the shore out to the main parasail boat for your convenience. Photo packages are available to purchase for every flight. We have the longest flights on the island and offer a float dip! Please visit the Estero Island Parasail location at Diamondhead Beach Resort to book or visit our website.
Our Global Farm is anything but typical. Through our tour, you’ll experience farming at its most creative, with unique demonstrations, plants, and techniques being used to help farmers and urban gardeners in developing countries.
There are seven different settings on our farm, with crops, techniques, and animals from around the world. ECHO is home to one of the largest collections of tropical food plants in the United States. Plus, our Urban Garden is a tour standout, with some unconventional, but effective ways to grow crops where there’s little to no soil.
Visitors to Edison and Ford Winter Estates can stroll through more than 20 acres of botanical gardens, the 15,000-square-foot air-conditioned museum, and the Edison botanic research laboratory. The museum contains several galleries that feature some of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford's most prominent inventions. The site is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Let Capt. Bill Hammond, Capt. Matt Johnson or Capt. Ethan Hansen with Endless Summer Charters show you some of the best back bay and offshore fishing in SW Florida.
Since 1968, each year nearly 4,000 sick, injured and orphaned wildlife patients from Southwest Florida receive care from CROW. Providing compassionate care to animals at all stages of illness or injury is what we do. Our staff and volunteers work tirelessly to nurse the animals back to health with the end goal of releasing them back into the wild.
Visitors to the CREW Hiking Trails can explore the natural wonder of real Florida. You will find abundant wildflowers, wildlife, and 5000 acres of saw grass marsh. Boardwalks, an observation tower, and well-maintained hiking trails await you. All the CREW trails are owned and managed by the South Florida Water Management District. They are free and open to the public from sunrise to sunset 365 days a year.
City of Palms Park includes 6990 seats in the main seating area of the stadium, former location of Boston Red Sox Spring Training, and is the home of the FSW Baseball team. The Five-Plex offers a spacious clubhouse, five full fields with observation tower and eight covered batting tunnels.
Located on beautiful Captiva Island, Captiva Cruises has shared shelling, island-destination, dolphin-watch and sunset cruises with Southwest Florida for over 35 years. Join us as we explore the fabulous outer islands of Cabbage Key and Cayo Costa or come aboard for dolphin and wildlife adventures, sunset cruises and private charters. Captiva Cruises is sure to be the highlight of your trip!
