Never Safe, Always Fun!: Tours & Tales of the Everglades

Explore the magical, mystical, fragile, and poetic landscape of the Florida Everglades in South Florida. Feel the heat, soak in the water, cleanse in the mud, scratch at the mosquito bites, all from the comfort of your own armchair.

Never Safe, Always Fun!, is an armchair travel guide, companion guide, and anecdotal memoir of the Florida Everglades. Walk through swamps with alligators, snapping turtles, venomous snakes and hysterical tourists. Paddle in the moonlight through mangrove tunnels, with boat bumping crocodiles, and get rained down on by jumping fish.

Never Safe, Always Fun guides you through a virtual tour of the Florida Everglades with a seasoned wilderness guide. Whether you plan to visit, have already been to, or just want to take a virtual tour of the Everglades, this book is for you.

Learn some of the science behind the Everglades, experience its unique habitats, and awe at the wonderful wildlife that make up this fragile landscape. Lightened with comedic tales from the author's vast experience, and time spent conducting wilderness tours of the Everglades National Park for adventure seekers the world over.

The tours were written about in a plethora of articles, both online and hardcopy across the globe, including The Sunday Times and the Boston Globe.

"Graham Mitchell leads tours for Everglades International Hostel, where "Never safe, always fun'' is the motto...The thrill of our day: an 8-foot Eastern diamondback coiled and rattling within snapshot distance. The pathos: an obscure plaque remembering Guy Bradley, an Audubon game warden killed in 1905 by plume hunters when great egret feathers sold for $30 an ounce." - Patricia Borns, 'Ways to the Glades', The Boston Globe.

"Believe me,' said Graham, my strapping swamp guide, 'it's scared of you.' He looked down at my white-knuckle grip on his upper arm, a limb that Popeye would envy. At 5ft 2in (or perhaps 5ft 4in with my hair standing on end from the shock), and carrying no weapon more ferocious than a pencil, I had managed to frighten a five-metre alligator." - Joanna Walters, 'The really wild show', The Sunday Times Travel Magazine