3 Hour Swimming with Manatees Tour Including Free Donuts and Coffee

3 Hour Swimming with Manatees Tour Including Free Donuts and Coffee

See Manatees Up Close!*

Manatee Tours are a truly unique experience which will leave you with great memories for the rest of your life!

When you arrive at the main building you will be shown a video (filmed in cooperation with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service) which demonstrates how you should behave when you are interacting with manatees in the water.

After viewing the video, you may rent a wetsuit and other gear, or change into the gear you brought with you. Next, you and your Coast Guard Certified Captain will proceed to the dock area and board one of our enclosed pontoon boats, where fresh donuts and coffee are available, free of charge (hot chocolate and juice are also available).

While you are touring Kings Bay in search of manatees, your friendly and knowledgeable Captain will answer any questions you have about the local ecosystem. After the Captain has found a good location, he or she will drop anchor and everyone will quietly enter the water and snorkel with the manatees. The Captain will join you in the water, to supervise your experience and shoot digital quality videos, which you may purchase.

Each tour lasts approximately three hours (depending upon a variety of conditions). Your tour may not return until after 11:00 a.m., so if you are staying in a hotel, you should request a late checkout time. Our tour times are from when the boat embarks until you disembark from the boat, not "shop to ramp" as some services use.

Our tours are intended to be educational, as well as enjoyable. We are devoted to educating the public about the plight of the manatees and helping to protect the manatees from boat propellers and other man made hazards.

*April - Oct. is the "summer population", a small group of manatee live in Kings Bay all year. During the cold winter months 200-300 manatees shelter in the 72 degree spring fed waters. We only find 1-3 a day in the summer, and there is never a guarantee that we will find a playful manatee. In the winter, it is impossible not to find them, they are all over the place.

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3 Hour Swimming with Manatees Tour Including Free Donuts and Coffee Highlights Include:

• Snorkeling with manatees
  
• Free coffee and donuts
• The opportunity to purchase digital quality videos of you with the manatees
• All our boats have changing rooms and toilets

3 Hour Swimming with Manatees Tour Including Free Donuts and Coffee
Daily, 6:15 AM

Departure Dates:

Daily - Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day

Departure Times:

6:15 AM

Departure Point:

Bird's Underwater
320 N.W. Highway 19
Crystal River, FL 34428

From Orlando:

Take Florida's Turnpike North to the end. It runs into Interstate 75. Go North on Interstate 75, but do not get out of the slow lane. You will be getting off at the next exit (Highway 44 West). Take Highway 44 West to Highway 19 North. Turn right onto Highway 19 North and go 1/2 mile. Bird's Underwater is on the left side of the road, just past Charlie's Fish House.
Look for our illuminated sign.
[Drive Time: Approximately 2 hours]

Passengers should meet at this address 30 minutes prior to departure.

Hotel Pickup:

No Hotel pick-up is available for this tour or activity

No Discounts for Children and Seniors

Payment:

Your credit card will be charged the total amount of products and services selected at time of booking. We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover Card.

Confirmation & Travel Voucher

For every confirmed booking you will receive an e-mail with a link to your E-Ticket Voucher. Print vouchers on your home/ office printer. Please present this E-Ticket voucher at the Box Office. Only one voucher will be created per tour or activity for all travelers.

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©2007 Birds Underwater

This tour must be booked at least 24 hours in advance of your travel date. Your confirmation for this product will be received within 12- 24 hours subject to availability.

Cancellation and No Show Policy

Once purchased tickets cannot be canceled. No refunds are available. No Shows on tour dates are charged 100%.

Recommended for all tours in Orlando: Comfortable shoes, extra layer of warm clothing, hats, visors and sunglasses.

Weather: Tour route or activity may be changed depending on local weather conditions.

Gratuities and Souvenirs are not included.

Birds Underwater and TourCorp Inc. assume no responsibility for delays caused by accidents, breakdown, bad conditions of roads, trails, bays, ocean, harbors, and any other conditions beyond control, in addition to insufficient numbers of passengers. Not responsible for loss or damage to property.

On some tours and activities the size of the vehicle depends on the number of passengers booked for that particular day. Tour companies reserve the right to change the size of the vehicle.

All company policies can be found at http://www.tourcorp.com and are part of this tour or activity purchase.