My 29 year ols daughetr and I had a GREAT time obeserving the manatees! Capt JOE and crew were awesome in explaining what we were going to see, and because it was summer, manatees spread out all over FL, we knew we weren't going to see a heard. They were good at finding the seacows and getting us right up to them. They are increadible animals. Small group size (max 6 per boat), all the gear was good, and they even take pics (cost $40 to link to site), we paid, they are beautiful memories. Do not expect to get up and close pics with manatess, they are not props. Just an observation, small kids may not be able to keep up with the manattes, they dont stay still, and be careful with location on google maps, they are really 10 minutes away from that marina, luckily Capr Joe answered the phone and gave us correct address.