Have You Ever Taken An Airboat Ride In A Wetland? Well, This Is What It’s Like.

One of the best parts of being a nature blogger is spending time outdoors and having the very unique experiences I get to both photograph and write about for this website.

I am one who doesn’t just want to write about a topic but rather I want to experience it firsthand and capture some interesting and compelling photographs and videos along the way to share with all of you.

A few weeks ago, I was able to ride along in an airboat as Utah DWR staff and many volunteers spent a cold Saturday morning at Farmington Bay cleaning out the artificial nesting platforms used by Canada Geese and replenishing them with fresh hay for this year’s breeding season.

Well, being how extraordinary this particular experience was I knew I wouldn’t be satisfied with just taking a few images for a blog post about the event, I also had to at least try and record some video of the airboat ride as well.

(What It’s Like To Ride In An Airboat. For short nature clips like this one and interesting stories about the natural world around us, check out our Bear River Blogger channel on YouTube for videos and updates from our travels while out in nature.)

So I pulled out my phone and recorded what I could of our group’s airboat ride, including myself, David England with the Utah DWR, and a couple of volunteers, as we traveled across some frozen mud, ice, and the shallow waters of unit 2 of Farmington Bay.

It was quite an exciting and very interesting time riding in the airboat and I hope the video shows how wildlife managers get around in wetlands when work such as this needs to be done.

There was absolutely no way we could have walked where the nests were so the only mode of transportation to get us out to the goose nesting platforms was the use of an airboat.

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