WE WILL TAKE YOU ON AN ADVENTURE YOU’LL NEVER FORGET!
If you like thrill and adventure, then you’ve come to the right place! Ride the Wind offers private airboat tours in the Everglades for thrill-seekers of all ages.
WHAT WE DO
Ride the Wind is an Everglades private airboat charter that takes off out of Fort Lauderdale. While enjoying an airboat ride in South Florida with Ride the Wind, we’ll be taking you to explore all that the wilderness has to offer covering Florida’s famous Everglades.
If you’re wondering what to do in the Everglades – look no further. You will be mesmerized by the beauty of the lush and stunning botanical experience offered in this marshland, not to mention being able to get up close and personal with the vast Everglades wildlife on each private airboat tour. YES! This means Florida’s famous alligators!
One of the best parts about Ride the Wind tours is that YOU get to drive the airboat! While our captains play co-pilot, you have the opportunity to soar through the land with the boat under your control.
Your safety is ensured with Ride the Wind, as one of our certified and trained boat captains guide you through the Everglades on one of our state-of-the-art vessels that are as safe as they are sleek.
WHAT YOU’LL SEE ON AN EVERGLADES PRIVATE AIRBOAT TOUR
Because the Everglades is home to so many different types of animals, there’s plenty to see on both our Fort Lauderdale airboat rides. Unlike other airboat excursions, we can guarantee you will spot some of Florida’s well-known alligators. There are big gators and baby gators – but all gators have teeth! So, our captains only encourage you to smile right back at them! On any of our Everglades airboat tours, you can keep your eyes peeled for alligators, as well as some of the following animals:
Because the Everglades is home to so many different types of animals, there’s plenty to see on both our Fort Lauderdale airboat rides.
Unlike other airboat excursions, we can guarantee you will spot some of Florida’s well-known alligators. There are big gators and baby gators – but all gators have teeth! So, our captains only encourage you to smile right back at them!
On any of our Everglades airboat tours, you can keep your eyes peeled for alligators, as well as some of the following animals:
- Different types of birds
- Deer
- Panthers
- Turtles
- Fish
- Snakes
- Rabbits
- Deer
- Pigs
The Everglades is also home to hundreds of different plants, many of which you’ll be able to see during your airboat ride. Some plants found in the Everglades include:
- Butterfly Pea
- White Fragrant Water Lily
- Cattail
- Sawgrass
- Black Mangrove
- White Mangrove
BOOK AN EVERGLADES AIRBOAT TOUR IN FORT LAUDERDALE TODAY!
Don’t leave South Florida without seeing and enjoying the natural beauty of the marshlands. Ride the Wind tours are more than just an airboat ride in the Everglades. There is no better way to get up close and personal with all the plants and animals that call the Florida Everglades their home than to take an Everglades tour on one of our state-of-the-art airboats. If you’re looking for the perfect rush of adrenaline where you can enjoy the wind in your hair and even drive an airboat, it’s time to book your tour! Contact Ride the Wind or click the Book Now button to schedule your private tour today!
Don’t leave South Florida without seeing and enjoying the natural beauty of the marshlands. Ride the Wind tours are more than just an airboat ride in the Everglades.
There is no better way to get up close and personal with all the plants and animals that call the Florida Everglades their home than to take an Everglades tour on one of our state-of-the-art airboats.
If you’re looking for the perfect rush of adrenaline where you can enjoy the wind in your hair and even drive an airboat, it’s time to book your tour! Contact Ride the Wind or click the Book Now button to schedule your private tour today!
CAPTAIN RANDY MEEKER
Captain Randy Meeker has been with Ride the Wind for more than 18 years, providing private airboat rides in Fort Lauderdale. He has 40+ years of airboating experience under his belt, gliding around the ‘Glades since his younger years. When he’s not taking people out where they can see alligators in the Everglades, he enjoys navigating fishing charters in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. As much as he likes to go freshwater and saltwater fishing, he likes to hunt dove, quail, and black-bellied ducks as well. On top of regularly partaking in several different outdoorsy hobbies, Captain Randy is a cigar connoisseur. He is happily married with six children, five of which are adopted – and they’re all Nicaraguan.
Captain Randy Meeker has been with Ride the Wind for more than 18 years, providing private airboat rides in Fort Lauderdale. He has 40+ years of air boating experience under his belt, gliding around the ‘Glades since his younger years.
When he’s not taking people out where they can see alligators in the Everglades, he enjoys navigating fishing charters in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. As much as he likes to go freshwater and saltwater fishing, he likes to hunt dove, quail, and black-bellied ducks as well.
On top of regularly partaking in several different outdoorsy hobbies, Captain Randy is a cigar connoisseur. He is happily married with six children, five of which are adopted – and they’re all Nicaraguan
“My favorite thing in life is being in the Everglades on a private airboat tour with wonderful people.”
Captain Randy was born and raised in sunny South Florida. His father worked at Port Everglades, so he has spent a lot of time on the water, driving airboats, fishing, scuba diving, and more. He had his first airboat ride before he could even walk!
His grandfather, PAP, was a ‘Glades man since the early 20’s – in other words, “he was the Clint Eastwood of the Everglades.” He taught Randy everything he knows, including how to work with alligators and the other animals who call the Everglades their home. PAP was so good with the gators of the ‘Glades because he was a nuisance hunter for a living. He would come to your home or business and remove alligators or other animals that were a nuisance, and Randy would help him.
Randy dropped out of school to work for his grandfather until he passed away in 1979. In 1980, he joined the General Offshore Corporation, working for President Ronald Reagan. His unit assisted the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corp. In the first year of his contract, he obtained the United States Coast Guard License (USCG) 100-Ton Master Captain. In the fourth year of his contract, Randy was a scuba diver for NASA Space Center.
He returned to the United States and started doing gator shows, private airboat tours in the Everglades out of Fort Lauderdale, and tours of the parks and Indian Reservations in South Florida. He worked part-time running a scuba diving operation, with over 4,000 dives just in Fort Lauderdale!
In 1999, Captain Randy opened Ride the Wind, where he now offers private airboat charters and Everglades airboat tours in Fort Lauderdale.
“I would like to say thank you to my father and PAP. I’m so blessed to have a great life because of them. As they say in Costa Rica, Pura Vida!”
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