It had been 15 years since my sister last participated in a similar excursion on St. Sheryl and I were wild cards and similar to many of her usual tour guests, people with limited to no previous horseback riding experience. She knew our companions from West Virginia were used to horses and had grown up riding. We felt the same when Jennifer sized us up at our adventure’s start. Our group of five had no issues with letting go. She was gifting us with a chance to be present in the moment instead of trying to compose family members into the perfect holiday card shot, or figuring out the right collection of videos needed for a vacation-inspired TikTok. No phone meant she had no additional duties that afternoon.Īnd in leaving the one item behind that tethers us to our day-to-day lives, there was true freedom for each of us. Experience has dictated that even though I’m older, my husband always charges her with making sure I return with all of my possessions after our adventures. But they’ll be taken by Jennifer, who has mad skills holding her horse’s reins while taking one-handed images and videos with her smartphone.Īs someone with butterfingers who previously watched a smartphone die a slow, tragic death on vacation, I was fine with this arrangement. You’ll still have dozens of photos filling your phone after. I can almost feel some of you seizing up with anxiety. You see, there are no phones allowed on an Equestrian Adventures of Florida horseback ride.Įven as I type that sentence, I smile. Hundreds of photos and video snippets filled our phones, literal snapshots of our technology-free adventure. When you see the exit to the beach, you’ll know you have them all.” “Sheryl, you gotta see this,” I said.Īt the same time, our guide Jennifer Miko, said, “I’m airdropping the last set of photos. He’s standing at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean surf and you can see a wave in the background getting ready to finish the trek up the beach to our horses’ hooves. He had been talking to us, or more specifically, to my sister, Sheryl. Jolly’s head is tipped back, his one visible eye wide. My sister has a huge smile stretched across her face the late-day light made her horse’s coat glisten. As I scrolled through the thumbnails, one jumped off the screen. Unless we were offering up our thanks in the form of carrot chunks, which had already happened, we might as well have been invisible.įinally, I chimed in, “I’ve got them.” In a moment my phone filled with photos. They had just spent the last hour-plus ferrying us over the sand, through the surf and then back again. “I got it,” one voice chimed in.Īt the same time, six horses in varying shades, from the light golden tone of winter wheat to deep chestnut, stood near, ignoring us. Trust me, I looked.Six humans stood anxiously staring at their phones.
#UBER EVERGLADES SAFARI PARK TV#
Standing up on that airboat I totally felt like a character in one of those crime TV shows. You can the pop into a wildlife sanctuary and get a bit of the history of the area and alligators.īut the highlight for me was the airboating. It was still exciting seeing them in the wild. Gators only grow an average of 2-3 metres long and have rounded snouts differentiating them from pointy-nosed crocodiles. Facebook/Everglades Safari Park) Photo: Facebook/Everglades Safari ParkĪlligators are nothing like the salt water crocodiles we get up in the Northern Territory. Facebook/Everglades Safari Park) Photo: Facebook/Everglades Safari Park (An alligator in the Florida Everglades.
(Tourists take pictures of alligators on an airboat tour. It's brimming with birdlife and other little critters.īut really you go there for the big critters, it was time for a bit of 'gator spotting. The Everglades National Park covers 1.5 million acres of freshwater marshes, lakes and sawgrass. The massive fans on the back of the boat are noisy and basic but that adds to the fun. The airboats clock up massive speeds and can slip and slide over water that's only 30cm deep. So, when I visited Miami there was no way I was missing out on an airboat ride on the Everglades. Look I'm not going to lie, I'm a massive fan of shows like CSI: Miami, Dexter and Miami Vice. 9Honey TV presenter and travel junkie Shelly Horton swaps Miami's sandy shores for an airboat adventure in the Everglades.
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