A small waterfront shanty town just to the west side of Miami - Homestead Fl and just north of the Florida's key west. He built his first air boat in Flamingo FL. Then used a slant six tank motor for power with a sawed off jet prop. Made from three sheets of plywood and some 2 x 4 He created a small flat boat. Built the first commercial airboat used in the Florida Everglades in 1941. My great grandfather and Captain Doug's Grandfather. Private Everglades Airboat Tours through the swamplands and Everglades island.Įverglades city Florida's Captain Barrel Head House. Ft Myers or Miami fl are great day trip of aprox 1 1/2 hrs drive. Just south on US 41 in the swamps from Naples or Marco Island, FL. We’ll see you soon!Įmail us at Everglades Private Airboat Tours .Ī Florida Everglades airboat ride, Everglades City, FL. Know that your time at Everglades Private Airboat Tours will be one of your cherished memories of your Florida Everglades Airboat experience, whether you are visiting or a year-round resident. As a charter fishing guide in Everglades city Florida and fisherman most of those were in tourism with Florida boat tours or airboat rides business at Captain Mitch’s Airboat Tours. TRAVEL LIKE THE OLD PIONEERS WITH A REAL PIONEER FAMILY.Ĭaptain Mitch, as the airboat tours owner, has been involved at Private Airboat Tours Everglades City, FL in the tourist attraction industry doing boat tours for more than 30 years here in Everglades City Florida. Opening up vast grasslands of Florida’s wetlands to hunt frog and for airboat tours Everglades City, FL. Later the locals around Everglades City, FL found these airboats were a great way to travel in the swamplands of the Florida Everglades. Where he took tourist charter fishing for snook, reds, trout, tarpon and many other fish species in the now Everglades National Park eco-system. This was a great way to gain access to the shallow salt flats of Florida Bay. Barrel Head used this as a fishing guide in the Flamingo and Florida Bay areas of the Florida Everglades. Powered with a slant six tank motor and a sawed off jet prop with no cage. These were primitive work boats. Built from three sheets of plywood and a few 2×4′s. He ended up following in the footsteps of his great grandfather Barrel Head House, who built one of the first commercial Airboats in 1945.
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