Top Naples Whale Watching

Explore the Ten Thousand Islands by boat on a half-day tour to one of Florida’s top natural attractions. Depart from Marco Island, located just south of Naples, with a small group that is limited to 12 participants. Head to an isolated barrier island that is only accessible by boat, where you can snorkel and swim in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Even if you’ve never kayaked before, you can still see manatees, dolphins, seabirds, and more in the wild on this Naples kayaking tour. Follow a guide through the protected estuary and mangrove tunnels at Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park and Barefoot Beach Preserve, learning about plant and animal wildlife from your guide and spotting animals you might miss on your own.

We at Dolphin Research Tours have reinvented the ecotour. We provide real expertise. We have been studying the dolphin communities in southwest Florida for 15 years. No other tour can provide as thorough an understanding of the local dolphins. We respect the wildlife. Coastal dolphins are under increasing pressure from human interaction. On a Dolphin Research Tour, you are part of the solution, not part of the problem. We engage kids. Kids are not just along for the ride. We've developed a fun 'citizen-science' activity for children that lets them be a scientist for the day. We give back. During each trip we collect sighting data for The Dolphin Study, a non profit working to protect Marco Island's dolphins.