Easy Adventures offers fun fishing, snorkeling and eco-tours in the Florida Keys. Based in Islamorada, we specialize in teaching kids and beginners how to fish or snorkel. Fishing and snorkeling lessons are taught patiently without pressure at your own pace. Look for dolphins and manatees. Dolphins often jump our boat wake! Photograph a gorgeous Florida Keys sunset or wading birds on the sand bars. Go island exploring on Indian Key or Lignum Vitae Key. Cruise along backcountry flats or meander through a narrow creek lined by tangled mangroves, searching for elusive wildlife. During season catch your own lobster dinner.
Some of the best Florida Keys snorkeling can be found at Cheeca Rocks and Alligator Lighthouse, which you can visit on your private snorkeling charter! Your patient captain can teach you how to snorkel or help you refine your free diving skills.
Your captain can also narrate a well-planned informative ecology tour. Eco tours may be planned for anytime of the day. Bird watchers prefer our sunset cruise when birds return to their mangrove roosts. Children prefer our critter getter program where they can capture animals with hand nets and then learn about them from your well-informed captain.
Weather is seldom a problem on an Easy Adventure. If the ocean is too bumpy, we can explore calm Florida backcountry waters or visit the ruins on Indian Keys where pirates once camped and where ship wreckers built a flourishing town.
YOUR CAPTAIN is Anne Baxter, former Everglades National Park ranger, published photo-journalist, and marine ecology instructor. For over 20 years she has explored the Florida Keys, a great part of that while living on a houseboat and running week-long charters. For 15 years she taught shipboard marine ecology courses at numerous educational facilities in the Florida Keys.
BOAT TOURS are on a seaworthy 22 foot fiberglass outboard motorboat with center console, canopy and easy access swim platform with ladder. The boat offers a stable ride in up to 3 foot seas. Cruise slow or get there fast. The boat is capable of cruising at 35 knots. When on plane the boat can go in depths as shallow as one foot without disturbing the seagrass beds. This permits you to get into areas not accessible to larger vessels and to get closer to Mother Nature.
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THIS WEEK:
June
Summer is here and school is out. Families are beginning to come down to the Keys for the coolest and best summer time fun in and on our crystal clear waters. There is no hint of an algae bloom anywhere here. You can look down into the water and see all kinds of fish including tarpon right next to the boat in its home port slip. Just last week a friendly manatee came right up for a drink of water while the captain next door to me was washing down his boat. she stayed there for quite awhile delighting all the onlookers.
The new bridge over Jewfish Creek has been completed as well as many improvements on US One from Key Largo to Florida City (the "stretch"). A concrete median has been installed and will prevent some of those head on collisions, making the "stretch" much safer.
Air temperatures average 90 to 95. There are three ways to deal with the heat here in the Keys: (l) go snorkeling, (2) ride a fast boat, (3) sip a margarita or rum runner under a coconut tree. Easy Adventures can offer you the first two. The last one is up to you.
During the summer seas calm down and there are many times that when traveling out to the coral reef in our boat, the crystal clear and smooth waters make the ride seem more like flying. You will imagine seeing treasure chests on the bottom as you glide over. Each fish and coral reef will be revealed. So come on down and enjoy the very best time of the year.
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