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About Us
"Airboat John" has over 30 years of Air Boating Experience. He is a U.S. Coast Guard licensed Captain, and Insured
Moorhens and Coots move just far enough to allow my passage, and then scramble to scarf up the Grass Shrimp and minnows stirred up as I pass. Nearly fifty generations of these marsh birds have interacted with the humans and their airboats; by now they seem to know how we think and how much room we need as we share the river valley. Effortlessly the boat slides across the grass and dollar weed as I make my way to a patch of open water. Small shad thrash the water's surface as bass chase them from below, and birds feed from above. I give the engine a little more throttle as I slide up the bank and power the boat to the edge. The bow is hanging off the bank, over thin air just enough to allow good casting into the frenzied school of fish.
--- Airboat John We are a member of the N.R.A., the Audobon Society, Florida Wildlife Federation, Orlando, Orange County Visitors and Convention Bureau, St. John's River Valley Airboat Association, and the Christmas River Boat Association. Old Fashioned Airboat Rides is always working to keep our River Basin and Marsh Lands clean and beautiful. Visit us for air Boat tours Orlando , eco-tours in the Central Florida Everglades, Central Florida nature tours, Orlando area airboat rides, Old Fashioned Airboat Rides. |
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Reservations Required Please call ahead for directions to boat launch site, please don't go to the office.
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Enjoy the
scenery and the wildlife of the beautiful St. Johns River in Central
Florida! Only 45 minutes from Orlando area attractions and only 15 minutes
from Kennedy Space Center, Old Fashioned Airboat Rides provides an
enjoyable and educational experience away from the crowds.
Briefly, quiet settles
over the area, and then the usual marsh noise resumes as the arrival of an
airboat, and its occupants are accepted as normal. Occasionally a water
moccasin, marsh rabbit, or wild hog will become aggressive when its space
is invaded, but I won't be sharing this fishing hole with any human today.
The marsh of the St. Johns River displays little impact from half a
century of airboat use. Approximately 2,400 airboats are registered in the
nearby counties, and many of them are operated on this river throughout
the year. Most air boaters are conservation-minded, and operate their
boats in a manner respecting the wildlife and habitat of the river valley,
some are just into it for the speed and noise, and don't stay long enough
to learn what real air boating is about.
The airboat is more than
just a mode of transportation, but a safe haven and portal into and out of
an otherwise hostile environment. As dusk arrives, the shriek of eagles
playing gives way to the trill of a family of raccoons making their way to
the waters edge. Turtles push off logs as the warmth of the sun fades into
the trees. Soon the sound of the marsh by day will turn to a din of
crickets and mosquitoes as the splash of feeding gators, and the hoot of
owls mark the shift change. I watch the reflective orange eyes of gators
sink slowly from my light as my air-propelled sled slides by.
