River Safari: Wildlife Adventure on Kings Bay

Embark on a 3-hour Crystal River Wildlife Safari Boat Cruise. Spot manatees, dolphins, and more. Limited to 6 participants for a personalized experience.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Crystal River - This river safari tour guides participants along the Crystal River to its confluence with the Gulf of Mexico. The journey includes exploration of various tributaries, with an emphasis on observing the diverse wildlife inhabiting the region.
What's Included
  • Safe Comfortable Boats
  • USCG Licensed Master Captains
What's Not Included
  • Sunglasses
  • Hats
  • Binoculars - Available for rent - $12
Additional Information

This 3 hour river safari by boat begins on the Kings Bay Manatee Refuge and takes you on a leisurely cruise out to the Gulf of Mexico and back. Along the way detours will be made one some of the rivers tributaries where we will be in search of various wildlife that inhabit this area. We will pass by the Crystal River Archeological site where you will…

Location
Pete's Pier Marina
Southwest 1st Place
See Crystal River tours is located at Pete's Pier in Crystal River. After parking, please check in at our office located in the back of the big blue building on the first floor.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Global153974
Mar 20, 2025
A great boat trip to see wildlife - Our captain/guide was wonderful! She took us all around the bay to the best places to see wildlife. We saw lots of manatees, and she was great at spotting them to show us. We also saw bald eagles, osprey nests with parents sitting in eggs, herons, and alligator, a large turtle, and all the springs. We didn’t go to the Gulf because her co-worker had not found any wildlife there that morning. We were delighted with the trip!
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Dbrobertso5
Mar 17, 2025
Great 3 hours on the water. - Nice three hour tour with lot's to see. Colt our guide was quite informative. Would recommend his cruise to everyone. Especially families not familiar with Crystal River and Florida water ways.
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Viafamily
Mar 16, 2025
Great - The tour was very nice. We learned quite a bit about Crystal River. Our guide was very good. He spotted out a lot of manatees. We were impressed with his site of them. I would strongly recommend this tour. Wonderful and peaceful tour!
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Kim
Mar 4, 2025
Great experience! - Colt, our captain, was very knowledgeable. He pointed out manatees, birds, turtles and an alligator. He answered everyone’s questions about the wildlife, the area, the weather etc. He did this all while navigating a very busy river! We were also blessed with a very active day! Manatee’s were on the move everywhere! It was a very good trip!
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Vickeys2025
Mar 1, 2025
Great tour - Great tour! The guide was excellent. He was very knowledgeable about the wildlife especially the manatees. It felt alomostnlike a private tour only one additional family.
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Onair83013
Feb 20, 2025
Great Tour - Captain Colt was awesome. Saw Manatee, Dolphin, Osprey, an Eagle and more. He took us to all the right places to see a lot of wildlife. Would recommend this tour to all.
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Z6518ehchristinap
Feb 17, 2025
Recommend this wildlife viewing trip on the Crystal River - Cannot recommend this trip enough. Lovely boat, very spacious and good condition. (Better than other boats we saw out on the water) Interesting guide. Easy to find booking office. The three hour trip passed very quickly. Guide made lots of effort to get us to see manatees.
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Jameslpaul52
Feb 5, 2025
Crystal River manatee trip - Captain Cody provided us with some great views of many manatees on our tour as well as a trip to the gulf along with insight of how the area developed from all the natural springs
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E954qyrickl
Feb 5, 2025
Great experience - Awesome experience. Very friendly and knowledgeable guide. Would recommend them to anyone. We saw plenty of Manatees and birds and stories to accompany them. Loved it!
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709filipm
Feb 15, 2025
What a great disappointment - Boat tour got canceled when we arrived at the dock. They didn't give us any reason and offered us the short boat tour instead. We were under the impression that they just didn't want to do the 3 hour boat tour because we were the only ones there. The lack of communication bothered us. Luckily they fully returned our money, but we lost 5 dollar for the parking at the dock. Next time we will look for another company.
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