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When looking for a dolphin tour in South Walton County, Ft. Walton Beach, Destin, and 30A, you will be surprised to find that the only place and the best place to find a dolphin and snorkeling tour where you will be able to swim with dolphins is in Panama City Beach in Bay County, Florida. Only few of the dolphin tours you see on the web will put you in the water and let you swim with the dolphins. It takes special skills and expertise to facilitate the actual experience of swimming with wild dolphins.
Your captain needs to be trained and experienced to place you in the water exactly where you need to be to have the encounter you have been looking for. There are so many companies offering dolphin and snorkeling tours or dolphin jet ski tours that it can be a challenge to find the best and most experienced outfit. How to find the best dolphin tour is a very important question.
Pick the best dolphin tour companies based on these criteria:
- How long have the companies you are looking at been in business? Water Planet has been in business since 1995!
- Do your homework. Read the reviews. Do not look at the number of reviews. These can be artificially generated. Look for reviews with details on the dolphin tour captains, on their personality, on their degree of knowledge and experience of the wild dolphins and of the local marine eco-system.
- What activities does the dolphin tour offer? Water Planet offers a wide range of activities ranging from swimming with dolphins off of Shell Island to snorkeling around the jetties to view all kinds of tropical fish like angelfish, an occasional manatee, sea turtle, manta ray or tarpon, and many other species of marine life.
- How long is the tour — will you have enough time to find the dolphins? The Water Planet USA dolphin tours last 4 hours. Enough time to find the dolphins and to explore Shell Island and look for shells. Wild dolphins are unpredictable. You may find them after 20 minutes or you may have to cruise along the beaches of Shell Island for an hour or more. Most of the other dolphin and snorkeling tours offer two-hour dolphin tours. Why should you risk not having enough time to swim with dolphins?
Generally, you get what you pay for. Snorkeling with wild dolphins is for most people a once-in-a- lifetime experience. Do you want to risk spending a considerable amount of money with one of the many new companies offering swimming with dolphins if they do not have the experience it takes? If this is on your bucket list, make sure you do it right the first time. Plan your Florida vacation carefully and factor an adequate budget. We are confident that if the marine conditions are right (we cannot control that), the Water Planet 4-hour Shell Island dolphin swim tour can bring you what you are looking for.
