Everglades National Park – Shark Valley Area (Airboat Ride and Shark Valley Tram Tour)

On our second day in Everglades National Park, we visited the Shark Valley area. We met up with Emmaline at the Everglades Safari Airboat ride. I saw plenty of airboats while in the Everglades area but these were the best ones for this redneck. Two huge V8 motors on an extremely large airboat was impressive. Get ‘er done! We then headed up the road a bit for some gator bites for lunch. After eating gators we went to see more of them a Shark Valley Vistors Center where we would take a 15-mile tram tour. Halfway on the tour, there is an observation tower (that is the sister tower to the one at Clingman’s Dome). We took in sunset there and on the last half of the tour before heading back up Alligator Alley to our campground.