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How Your Sugar Consumption Affects What You See on a Sunset Airboat Tour of the Everglades
500 sheets of high-quality watercolor paper. A baby hippopotamus. 17 gallons of milk. What do all of these things have in common? They each weigh less than the 152 lbs of sugar each American consumes per year on average. Unfortunately, sugar production takes massive...
Fun Facts About the American Crocodile in the Florida Everglades
The American crocodile is one of the most widespread types of the crocodile in the world. It can be found in the southernmost parts of Florida in the United States, as well as the Caribbean Islands and South America. Crocodiles are large reptiles who enjoy the warm...
Non-Native Plants Threatening the Everglades
The Florida Everglades are 1.5 million-acre wetlands filled with hundreds of animal species. Unfortunately, this unique environment is being threatened by non-native plant species that invade the area and make it difficult for native plants and animals to flourish. On...
Top 5 Plants to Look for on Your Everglades Airboat Tour
As the Everglades represents a convergence of multiple ecosystems and is located across a confluence of climate zones, it provides an opportunity to see tropical flora from the Caribbean alongside temperate North American plants. While on an Everglades tour, below are...
All About Saw Palmettos in the Everglades
The Florida Everglades is known for its diversity of plant and wildlife, including the iconic saw palmetto. Putting down roots in the Florida Everglades is not easy, but somehow the Saw Palmetto thrives in the glades unique conditions. Perhaps it is because the Saw...
Migrating Birds in the Everglades
On a ride with Everglades airboat tours in Fort Lauderdale, visitors skim across what is sometimes called a “river on grass.” In the Everglades, which is a slow-moving river, visitors can hear a chorus of frogs and cicadas, and they can safely observe alligators lying...
Big Sugar’s Impact on the Everglades
The Everglades – A Tourist’s Treasure Chest The Everglades are a prime attraction for its natural scenic beauty. This is the area of South and Central Florida where Lake Okeechobee overflows onto two million acres. This lake releases its waters into a very...
Fun Facts about the Eastern Indigo Snake
Florida is full of beautiful, marshy landscapes and the creatures that inhabit the land, sea, and sky. We have some of the most interesting creatures in the United States thanks to our Everglades, and we’re responsible for protecting and bringing awareness about them...
Fun Facts About the American Alligator
Florida is full of beautiful, marshy landscapes and the creatures that inhabit by land, sea, and sky. We have some of the most interesting creatures in the United States thanks to our Everglades, and we’re responsible for protecting and bringing awareness about them...
Are Airboat Tours Safe in the Everglades?
If you’ve heard about how much fun airboat swamp tours are, you’ve definitely heard about the exciting wildlife we encounter and how close to nature we become. Feeling a little nervous about getting up close and personal with an alligator? Not quite sure about gliding...