Girard the owner, was super nice. We booked a kayak ecotour on the Banana River (Sykes?) river/lagoon. It was just okay. Jordan was our tour guide and it seemed like she could have known a bit more about the natural history of the region (it was an ecotour after all). I love to have a guide give as much info as possible (birds, plants, fish, ecology, geology....) and have my kids learn this stuff. She knew about manatees but not much else (like birds). Also, she was so far from us most of the time that I couldn't hear what she was saying. Also, this Sykes/Banana River lagoon is bordered on the SW side by a airport/run-way and it seemed like small planes were constantly taking off and landing - which took away from an otherwise quiet, peaceful paddle. Perhaps Girard would have been a better guide(?). Next time, I would probably just take the kids to a bridge or something to get a better look at manatees because they were hard to see from the kayak and the tour didn't go over much else than manatees. Maybe if you were on a board, it was a better tour. So, just okay.