Other Seminole Activities Publisher's Note Enjoy Seminole Tours of the Everglades with The Billy Swamp Safari Airboat rides are a cool and fun way to tour the Everglades. You can enter and explore, courtesy of the Florida Seminole Indians, who will graciously share their heritage and history with you and educate you with knowledgeable tour guides. The swamp buggy tour takes a good couple The Seminoles have learned to co-exist among the thousands of alligators and crocodiles indigenous to the Everglades.
Alligator wrestling is a popular attraction.
It will bounce you along jeep-style, on narrow trails through hardwood hammocks, cypress domes and deep patches of swamp water. You'll follow Sam Jones Trail, named after the famous Seminole who was a fierce guiding spirit behind the Seminoles' resistance to being relocated by the U.S. Army. Catch glimpses of gopher tortoise burrows, alligators, crocodiles, panthers, deer, antelopes, razorback hogs, and a suprising variety of wild African and European deer, antelopes and water buffalo. Learn about how the natives used the indigenous herbs and plants for all sorts of purposes, which grew abundantly in the tropical cypress forest. Right inside the deepest part of forest is a recreated traditional Seminole camp.