We took the OKW boat on Monday. It's such a nice ride. I was hoping to get a glimpse of the otters that live in the canal. Our boat captain said that it took him 2 years to see them, they are not always in a specific area. We weren't lucky on that score, but we were lucky. There was thunder when we got back to the Pleasure Island area, and if there had been lightning, we would have been stuck. That drop off is no where near the busses, and we had no ponchos. We held our breath until the SSR boat came along....wow. I would be very sure that the weather is nice before I embaked on that adventure again. Of course, no guarantees in Florida in the summer, but we were very fortunate.