Has anyone done crystal river

[florifan]

Has anyone done crystal river manatee swim, I have seen it on a couple of nature programmes and it looks lovely, I looked on internet and the swim is 7am, so I guess we would have to go night before and stay in a hotel as it's a couple of hours from Disney, anyone got any tips or advice whether we should do it?

[Heather1957]

This is something I'd really like to do to. I found a site that says you can swim at 6 am and 10 am so maybe that's an option.

I'm going over Sept/Oct and am likelt to do this myself.

Thanks for the 'heads up'. :grin:

[florifan]

Heather if you see Bill Oddie in USA when he goes to Florida repeated watch it as the manatee interaction is absolutley magical the website I looked at said 6am and 10am, but then said for the summer 2007 all would be 7am but it might be a different site, $40 for all the gear and the swim or £10 just to watch :thumbs-up

[Sam_Smith]

We did it in 2004. It was the best day we had in Florida :spin:

You can read about it in my trippie:

Grumpy Does Orlando (http://www.thedibb.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=79252)

[florifan]

Sounds great Sam think we will definatley add this to our itinery

[eeyore88]

Best day we've ever had, we went with Virgin and swam at about 11am, we had breakfast on the way there then lunch and a visit to a wild life park and a Manatee rescue centre all this was in the price.

Jean xx

[josie112]

There are various ways of taking in this magnificent experience. This is one of them

http://www.manateeswimtours.com/

There are others - just google Crystal River and go from there.