Everglades Airboat Rides Miami: Beached Whales in the Everglades

This week Florida has experienced some unusual news on dozens of whales being stranded in the Florida Everglades. Wildlife officials, scientists and volunteers have been scrambling this week to save dozens of pilot whales that beached themselves in the shallow waters of Florida’s Everglades. A fishing guide on Dec. 3 discovered a pod of 51 […]

Airboat Everglade Tours: ENVIROMENTAL THREAT IN THE EVERGLADES

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted unanimously Wednesday in Weston to push state and federal agencies to adopt a high-water emergency policy to protect plants and animals in the central Everglades. Developed by commissioner Ron Bergeron, calling for time and depth limits on water levels in the vast state conservation area that lies […]

Airboat Everglades: History of The Florida Everglades:

Fort Lauderdale location on a map

The Florida Everglades has evolved over time but still remains as one of Florida’s sites to see. America’s Everglades once covered almost 11,000 square miles of South Florida. About a century ago, water flowed down the Kissimmee River into Lake Okeechobee, then south through the Everglades marsh to the flats of Florida Bay – the […]

Traveling 101: What to Wear and Bring on an Airboat Ride

Ride The Wind staff being interviewed by a reporter

The great thing about going on an airboat ride is getting the chance to see a wide variety of wildlife that live in and around the swamp. Bring a pair of binoculars and your camera to see different types of birds like bald eagles, ospreys, and roseate spoonbills. Of course, a trip to the swamp […]

Miami Florida Everglades Tours: Everglades flow can now go again

an exciting adventure in the middle of a wetland

Public works authorities in Florida are busy building a group of bridges along the Tamiami Trail to elevate long sections of the roadway, thereby allowing southward-flowing swamp water to proceed unhindered into the rest of the wetlands. Everglades Foundation director Eric Eikenberg said the first of five bridges, which is located just east of Coopertown, […]

Exciting Everglades Airboat Tours: What You Don’t Want to Miss Out On

fast airboat ride

An article on aol.co.uk dated April 13, 2013 recounted the story of a Florida tour guide who tussled with a feral 10-foot long Burmese python while taking a family of four on a boat tour through the Everglades. The seemingly dangerous, yet exhilarating experience proved quite memorable for the sightseers, who were treated to a […]

Blogger on everglades adventure with Ride-The-Wind

a man featured in a magazine

Click below to read the adventure that this blogger went on and how he got to see the everglades firsthand. This article is written about how the everglades has changed over the course of time and how it may effect us South Floridians.

Restoring Wetlands: More Reasons to Book Everglades Airboat Tours Today

Water pollution is nothing new. It is only in the past few decades that man began to realize the grave cost of his nonchalant ways towards the environment, and Southern Florida’s jewel, the Everglades, is just one of the many casualties of his acts. Fortunately, there are socially and environmentally responsive groups who are reversing […]