SoulMate Charters is a guide service in Fort Myers. Captain Rob Modys guides novice and advanced fly and spin anglers on Pine Island Sound, Matlacha Pass and Estero Bay.
Brevard Zoo provides nature hikes, kayaking and birding tours, guided by a trained naturalist. Participants encounter dolphins, sea turtles, horseshoe crabs, manatees and birds on the Space Coast. Tour regions include Haulover Canal at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Manatee Cove on Merritt Island. On Brevard Zoo kayaking tours, guests paddle the Nvami Nvami River beside giraffes and lemurs.
On GAEA Guided Kayak Nature Tours, paddlers cross Florida on the Okeechobee Waterway on five-day kayak trips. Participants tour ancient historical sites and stay at resorts along the waterway.
The Great Calusa Blueway Kayak tour offers coastal tours through back bays, aquatic preserves, wildlife refuges, creeks, bayous and mangrove forests. Guests learn about the wildlife ecology and history of the area and see dolphins, manatees and more than 300 species of birds.
A summer evening program at Space Coast Nature Tours brings visitors down the Indian River Lagoon on a narrated boat ride to watch bioluminescence. Aboard a 45-foot vessel, visitors watch microscopic animals create a light show when brushed through by dolphins or manatees.
On Everglades Day Safaris, trained biologists describe the history and condition of Florida's ecosystems. Each safari includes a scenic boat ride to the Ten Thousand Islands, a nature walk into a Cypress swamp, lunch with appetizers of local delicacies and a drive through the outback. The Fort Myers, Sanibel and Naples airboat ride includes the swamps and sawgrass prairies of the Everglades. In Fort Lauderdale, the trip with the Miccosukee Indians features an airboat ride through the "River of Grass."
Amy Slate's Amoray Dive Resort offers snorkel and dive trips on its 26-foot catamaran to see dolphins, manatees, reefs and wreck sites in Pennekamp State Park and the National Marine Sanctuary. The resort also features a one-day Discover Scuba Diving class, eco-tours and independent kayaking.
