Florida Airboats — How to Pick an Ethical Operator, What the Hype Hides, and What the Sawgrass Actually Sounds Like

Most Everglades airboat tours sell theatre — engine-noise gator feedings, scripted laps, no real ecology. There's a better way to do it. Here's how to pick a small-boat naturalist outfit, what an airboat is actually doing in the sawgrass, and why feeding a gator is illegal and ends with the gator dead.