| Are you looking for adventure? Excitement? A | | | | the great city of Miami, from which a number of |
| story that will last you a lifetime? If so, then you | | | | Everglades tours can be booked or chartered. |
| need to look no further than the shores of the | | | | Especially popular are the fast and adventurous |
| good old United States of America. To be more | | | | airboat tours. Airboats, or fan boats, are very |
| specific, you need to look no further than the low | | | | shallow-drafted flat bottom boats specifically |
| lying marsh lands of southern Florida. The | | | | designed for swamp travel. They are powered by |
| Everglades make up one of the world’s | | | | a single very large fan attached to a car or |
| most interesting and complex ecosystems, and | | | | aircraft engine mounted above the body of the |
| cover over seven hundred and thirty square miles | | | | boat. Because of the air boat’s shallow |
| of wilderness and swamp. Unlike so much of the | | | | draft and above water propulsion system, it can |
| rest of the eastern United States, the Everglades | | | | travel through water only a few inches deep, and |
| are still very much untamed and are home to a | | | | it is even capable of skidding for brief distances |
| stunning array of wildlife and nature. | | | | across sand or bare ground. |
| Originally, the Everglades were much larger. It is | | | | If you’re visiting Miami or one of the many |
| estimated by some agricultural experts that over | | | | other cities bordering the Everglades national park, |
| half the original marsh land has been converted to | | | | make sure to check into the multitude of tour |
| agricultural farm lands or used for similar purposes. | | | | options available to you. An airboat tour is a once |
| Today, fortunately, most of the Everglades are | | | | in a lifetime opportunity, so make sure you |
| protected by the federal government as part of | | | | don’t miss it. Prices vary from tour to |
| the United States national park system. The | | | | tour, but you can expect to shell out forty to |
| Everglades remain a wonderful and wild place to | | | | fifty dollars. For an absolutely spectacular four or |
| explore for you and other Americans because of | | | | five hour experience, though, there are few |
| this conservation. | | | | better ways to spend your money. If you plan to |
| What better way to explore such a wild swampy | | | | travel through Florida soon, check into airboating in |
| area than with a high powered airboat? The | | | | the Everglades. |
| Everglades is a huge area, and part of it borders | | | | |