Manatee Connection - Crystal River, FL
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ODragon
N 28° 53.641 W 082° 35.845
17R E 344242 N 3197293
A swim with the manatee boat tour.
Waymark Code: WM622K
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 03/19/2009
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Manatee Connection Tour's offers a very unique experience to swim with these wild and amazing creatures. We cater to small groups (max.12 persons) or a private tour if you prefer. We feel the smaller more personalized tours are much more enjoyable, and much less stressful for our gentle friends. We strive to provide you with a comfortable and informative experience where your safety and the Manatee's well being comes first!
Our Manatee tour boats are U.S. Coast Guard Certified vessels with full curtain enclosures,porta-potty,and changing room. They are equipped with super low emissions environmentally friendly four stroke engines for dependability and quietness! Our captains are Coast Guard Licsenced masters with CPR/FIRST AID Capability's with a wealth of knowledge about Manatee's, bird's,wildlife,the local waterway's and there surrounding area's. They might even tell you a old sea story or two!
Here at Manatee Connection we offer many different and exciting opportunity's to experience nature at it's best. Not only do we offer manatee tours. We do sunset cruises,sight seeing tours on the Homosassa, Crystal and Rainbow rivers. Drift snorkel trips on the Rainbow river,Guided kayak tours and Kayak rentals on Homosassa and Weeki Wachee rivers. If you are interested in any of these wonderful adventures,please call Captain Hank for details !
Personal opinion and observations:
We had a great time on this tour. As the weather is starting to get warm, the manatees are getting harder to find. Cap'n Hank took us all over to find them and even though we'd all gotten to pet a manatee, he offered to keep going for another hour taking us to the Three Sisters spring where we had our best manatee encounter. I would highly recommend using this company if you want to swim with the manatees!
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