All Panama City Beach residents can enjoy a dolphin tour. Waverunners can be rented for an adventurous ride. Our tour boats are great for families with young children or those who just want to relax and enjoy the ride while we search for wild dolphins. You can also take photos and video to make your trip memorable.
You want the dolphin adventure you have always wanted? Panama City Beach Snorkeling & Dolphin Tours LLC is the best for private charters, guided tours, and much more. We are your guide as you explore the waters of Shell Island and Panama City Beach. We are looking forward to meeting with you!
You'll find a wide variety of birds out of the water. These include raptors such as bald eagles or ospreys, shorebirds such as great blue herons, egrets, and seabirds such magnificent frigatebirds, and terns. Sometimes, we also see deer on the Island.
If conditions allow, guests are welcome to get in the water when dolphins are nearby. Safety is always our first priority, and your captain will instruct you how to safely snorkel around marine mammals.
Enjoying a Panama City Beach Snorkeling & Dolphin Tours is easy and gives your entire group a chance to get out on the water in style. To maximize your enjoyment, we have the following available for purchase onsite as well as online:
Our comfortable and stable Carolina Skiffs, 21-foot and 23,-foot, are ideal for island and dolphin tours. This boat has a centre console design to maximize open space.
If conditions permit guests are welcome to swim with dolphins in the waters if this is possible. Safety is our primary concern. Your captain can show you how safe to snorkel around marine mammals.
Locals and tourists alike enjoy dolphin tours in Panama City Beach. We make it our top priority to make sure the dolphins are not disturbed while they go about their day. We are familiar with the locations where schools of dolphins congregate. We'll take our guests all over the Gulf of Mexico so you can view these majestic dolphins in their natural habitat.
Dolphin Tours & Snorkel Tours to the beautiful Gulf of Mexico are always unforgettable. For a memorable experience, we'll take you to the Island and bring you up close to the dolphins. The island is a great place to snorkel and explore shelling.
Looking for a fun seafari near Panama City Beach? Panama City Beach Snorkeling & Dolphin Tours LLC offers the best in guided snorkeling tours, dolphin excursions, pontoon boat rentals, and more!
Starfish, bay scallops (with sand dollars), whelks, starfish up to 21 inches in length, conchs with a maximum length of 21 inches, seahorses, urchins, hermit crabs, and other crab species are some of the species we often see. These animals can easily be brought to the surface, photographed, and handled with care. So that anyone can view them, even those who are not snorkers, we bring large containers. Any shells found with no living creatures can be taken home.
We will travel to Historic Grand Lagoon and take a 25-minute relaxing cruise to Shell Island, our snorkeling area. Look out for dolphins and other sea creatures as you cruise along the coast. We will anchor at the Gulf of Mexico or Shell Island. From there, you can either snorkel for seashells or learn about local marine-life. Or just relax and soak up the sun. Shell Island also has shallow water that you can use to search for shells. After visiting Shell Island for a while, we will take a ride into the Gulf of Mexico. Here we will look for dolphins and see the sights along the way.
Panama City Beach Snorkeling & Dolphin Tours LLC's captains have extensive experience in spotting, observing, interpreting and interpreting dolphin movements and behavior. We position the boat safely and will instruct you on when to jump in the water so you can have a closer view and mix with the dolphins.
We will get you in the water before they arrive. This will make it more likely that the dolphins swim to us, rather than to us. Panama City Beach Snorkeling & Dolphin Tours LLC is smaller than larger boats, which can carry as many as 150 people. You can get in the water quickly with your snorkel gear on without having to splash or disrupt the environment that large groups often create. This is often what scares the dolphins away. For larger groups of up to 30 people, we have five identical boats. We limit the number to six per boat. A large family dolphin is also available for 15 people.
It takes twenty minutes. The ride up to the island takes twenty minutes. Seabirds are also common on the trip to Shell Key via the green ferryboat.
Tail slaps can be used to indicate many things. It could also be a way of getting the attention distant friends. A few dolphins and whales will also slap the tails of fish to capture them.
There is no limit to what you can do, and as new research shows, it's possible for swimmers of both genders to enjoy the sport. According to a paper published Monday by the journal Current Biology, female bottlenose Dolphins most likely enjoy pleasure through their Clitories.