Everglades Full Day Tour: Biologist-Led Eco Adventure
4.9
74 Ratings
Miami
Embark on an incredible full-day eco adventure in the Everglades with Wild Lime Adventures. Led by experienced biologists, explore wetlands, spot rare wildlife, take a boat tour, visit historic sites, and enjoy a delicious local lunch. Don't miss this life-changing bucket list experience!
Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Fort Lauderdale - We pick you up in Fort Lauderdale
  • Miami - Enjoy a narrated scenic tour of Miami as we head out to our destination. Learn about Miami, old and new, from your interesting local guide.
  • Tamiami Trail - Pass by without stopping
  • Miccosukee Indian Village - Head out on a small air boat far from land. On this 1-hour trip, stop at 1 or 2 native tree island villages where the Natives used to live. Explore, and wonder about the remote beauty of their unique way of life and culture. This is your chance to see large and small alligators, and baby alligators; along with a wide variety of bird species, including the endangered Everglades snail kite.
  • Clyde Butcher Everglades Swamp Walk - Visit this famous photographers gallery to see some impressive photographs of the Everglades and More
  • Shark Valley - Watch how the sun and clouds reflect off the water way out in this “River of Grass,” perhaps the widest river in the world.
  • Loop Road - Head off road to hidden spots to see the largest alligators imaginable. Learn about the remote way of life of the people who inhabit this region, and become fascinated with endless natural discoveries.
  • Oasis Visitor Center - This little stop typically includes a lot of birds, and super big alligators!
  • Ochopee Post Office - Visit this historic post office!
  • Big Cypress National Preserve - Go on a swamp walk adventure with your expert Florida Master Naturalist guide into the lush cypress canopy of a breathtakingly amazing eco-system. This highly personalized, small-group tour is a bucket list item not to be missed. Water shoes can be provided during your walk. After becoming fully immersed in the beauty of this region, which is the most biologically diverse in Florida, relish in a wondrous scenic wildlife drive. Enjoy a delicious lunch at a local cafe in Everglades City and learn what makes the history of this area fascinating.
  • Everglades City - Enjoy lunch and a guided tour of this small town, which was once the county seat for Collier County.
  • Smallwood Store - You will feel like you have entered a time capsule in this wonderful museum
  • Chokoloskee - Take an hour boat trip through the 10,000 Islands area of Everglades National Park.
What's Included
  • Inclusive of all National Park fees
  • Complimentary walking sticks provided
  • Lunch included
  • Assorted snacks available
  • Water shoes available on loan; option to bring personal sneakers
  • Variety of beverages: regular water, sparkling water, and soda
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Bring a change of shoes and pants for after the wet walk
Additional Information

Embark on an incredible eco-adventure that begins with an educational wet walk conducted by a knowledgeable naturalist. Witness unique orchids and a diverse wildlife living amongst towering cypress trees, a spectacle only a few get to enjoy. This unique wet walk experience is a game-changer that you need to tick off your bucket list! Following that, experience an incredible 60-minute boat tour led by a seasoned boat captain through the 10,000 Islands in Everglades National Park. Look forward to spotting pods of dolphins, manatees, sawtooth fish, roseate spoonbills, white pelicans, among other species. Along the way, stop over at a historic trading post and other unexpected eco-friendly stations. A scrumptious local meal is part of the tour. End the journey on a high note with a 1-hour thrilling airboat ride deep into the authentic Everglades, complete with a stopover at a Native tree island village. This intimate and personalized tour comes in small group arrangements. Wild Lime Adventures holds the reputation of being South Florida’s top-rated tour company and is one of the few fortunate ones to possess a permit in Everglades National Park.

  • Please bring a change of clothing
  • We have water shoes to borrow but you can also bring old sneakers to wear
Location
The Miccosukee General Store
Southwest 8th Street
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(74 Ratings)
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Jennifer
Apr 30, 2024
Top tour of the Everglades! - Ryan was a fantastic guide! He knows so much about the ecosystem, the history, and the Native American tribes of the area. He kept us entertained all day (and it was a long day, as I was picked up from Ft. Lauderdale). The boat ride was fun and the airboat ride even more so. The wet walk was both gross and a fascinating close-up look at the ecosystem. This is definitely my top pick for a tour if you want to tour the Everglades.
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Angelaha4984ys
Apr 23, 2024
Best Everglades tour - see the REAL Florida! - The whole experience was so much better than just doing the standard airboat tour offered by other companies. Wild Lime Tours took us into the real Everglades National Park where we got to see the ecosystem up close and get not only an in-depth scientific perspective, but an historical lesson in how the native tribes co-existed and survived throughout time. Amazing and I highly recommend! Our tour guide Ryan was so great and knowledgeable and a really fun guide.
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Safari07661261591
Apr 11, 2024
Terrific day in the Everglades - Our family of 4 had a wonderful time with Wild Lime in the Everglades and Cyprus Dome. We did the full day tour that included a walk on a boardwalk (we wanted to do the wet walk but water was too high), a flat bottom boat tour and an airboat tour, along with lunch and a few other stops. It was really a terrific day and each of us had different highlights. We saw tons of alligators, as well as beautiful birds, dolphins and other wildlife. Our guide Lindsay was great - very knowledgeable and worked hard to keep the whole group engaged. Would highly recommend this tour.
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Judith_k
Apr 11, 2024
It was a small group,... - It was a small group, very personal experience. Lindsey was very knowledgeable and friendly. Felt like a group of friends on a learning expedition!
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Sicandea
Apr 10, 2024
Great guides, incredible experience with lots of cool animals and plants! - Guides were very knowledgeable and fun. The wet walk was a one of a kind experience where we learned about the local flora and fauna. We saw many animals including alligators, dolphins, and many different kinds of birds. We even got to hold a baby alligator! Would recommend to everyone for a little adventure.
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Rtrautner
Mar 27, 2024
Great trip - Fabulous trip-informative and sensitive to native people, plants and animals. Nice folks, great pilots and guides. Highly recommended!
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103jennk
Mar 25, 2024
Amazing full day adventure - Went on this trip a week ago with a friend and we both really loved it. Ryan was an amazing guide with lots of interesting stories and details to share. He was also very concerned about our comfort and preferences. We did the wet walk (originally we had booked the dry walk as I was a bit apprehensive about a wet walk but we got rebooked to the wet walk and Ryan made sure I was comfortable joining), the boat tour and airboat ride and everything was so much fun and even the details were very well organized, from the snacks, drinks and water bottles to the lunch place. Highly recommend!
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Aubrey
Mar 25, 2024
Locals know Wild Lime is the best tour company in the Everglades! - A great way to see and experience this unique and humongous National Park. Having a trained Biologist with you explaining the vegetation and wildlife makes all the difference, and our guide Julia, was superb and filled with knowledge and made it a fun day. Due to heavy rains that morning and the day before, they moved us to the dry walk tour which was honestly just fine, and ended being better for my teen / preteen daughters who didn’t really want to go trudging through mucky water. (Saved us from needing to change shoes and stuff too). The boat ride around the 10,000 islands left from this nice old trading post which was a fun history/antique-filled surprise to explore (and had nice new bathrooms in case you needed ). It might seem daunting to do an “all-day” tour, but this one is really like 4 mini-tours wrapped into one day with a guide to make the drive between activities well worth it. And the office staff was great to work with too, and they even ensured to refund the $25 for us driving ourselves to the meeting point that got missed when they refunded the tour price difference between Wet vs Dry tour that I had paid for. I wouldn’t have noticed but they did and were really pleasant and a good business to work with. I can also tell you that I was grateful that the airboat company they partnered with was a native-tribe run business, who have their own history worth hearing about (no spoilers) and did a great job showing us wild alligators and baby alligators out in the Everglades. It was the highlight of the day, followed by seeing dolphins playing behind our boat out in the open ocean earlier that day.
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Marpeter
Mar 22, 2024
A day full of outstanding nature experience - An entire day packed full of activities, information, impressions and images. Ryan is a great guide with enormous knowledge of fauna, flora, history, ecological and environmental background. As well as an excellent guide during the wet walk, the transfers and the boat rides. We were a group of 11 people, so enough time to see everything and to talk to the boatsmen and take photos. We saw birds, snakes, alligators and jumping dolphins, had a short stop on a beach and went through dense foliage with the boats. So many different and varied views of one of the most fascinating landscapes in the world. A great - and well organized - experience to remember for a long long time.
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Michellevu1923wc
Mar 8, 2024
Great tour well worth the money! - We had a great tour. Already recommended it to family. Abigail was very knowledgeable and a really good guide. She never got tired of questions. She explained the different zones of the Everglades very clearly. Highly recommend this tour.
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