Water Planet offers a variety of dolphin swim programs for the whole family in Panama City Beach, Florida, including fun and educational swim-with-the-dolphins tours and dolphin therapy camps for children with special needs.

All of our dolphin tours and dolphin viewing combine the natural beauty of a dolphin encounter with education for an experience rated by some as the most moving encounter of their life. All programs are geared towards a low impact eco-tourism management as an educational medium to marine wildlife conservation and protection.

We are the oldest (since 1994) and most experienced wild dolphin swim facility in Panama City! Our swim with the dolphins tours include an educational briefing, a sightseeing boat ride across the Bay of St. Andrews, the dolphin encounters, the exploration of Shell Island, a marine ecology wet lab (by request), shelling and exploring boat wrecks.

We are located at only 45 minutes from Destin. Since it is difficult to find a dolphin swim tour in Destin, we welcome visitors from the Destin/Ft. Walton area to our dolphin swim programs in Panama City Beach..

Our one day Wild Dolphin Swim Tour is offered in Panama City Beach, Florida, March through November.

Children are welcome to participate in our dolphin tours. Our staff has years of experience with helping children on board the boat and in the water during their dolphin swim and dolphin watch. Your children will love the close proximity of dolphins and will probably remember the experience for the rest of their lives.
The program is very fluid and it unfolds differently every day based on the weather conditions, visibility in the water, dolphins behavior and their whereabouts.

Welcome on board, giving out snorkeling gear and life vests, educational briefing, travel to the Shell Island area (about 15 minutes, look for dolphins and get in the water when appropriate. The dolphins usually do not stay around the boat for long. Clients can stay in the water as long as the dolphins are present and as long as the dolphins tolerate human presence. Then they get back on board and we continue on either to catch up with them and do it again or look for other dolphins depending on their mood. If the visibility is good, we may travel at low speed along the beach to look for stingrays, baby sharks or other sand dwelling fish. If the surf conditions allow it, we beach the boat at Shell Island, explore and look for shells. Check out small lake for gators. We also stop to snorkel by the jetties, which is habitat for allot of different fish species including Angel Fish, Blue Tang, Spade Fish, Grouper, Snapper, Lookdowns, wrasses, Jacks, Needlefish, Mullet, etc. Back inside the bay for shallow water seagrass wading or snorkeling (wet lab) and snorkeling on a 24-foot boat wreck sunk in 8 feet of water during Hurricane Ivan. Cruising inside the bay if time allows it and back to the dock.

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