About Sharkey's Glass Bottom Tours
Sharkey's Glass Bottom Tours brought a genuinely different idea to St. Pete Beach: kayaks with transparent hulls and high-powered underwater LED lights, paddled at night over the grass flats and mangrove edges of the Intracoastal. The company bills itself as the original glass bottom, LED-illuminated fish feeding night tour, and has since expanded the concept to several other Florida coastal towns.
The signature trip is the guided night tour, where the lights under each kayak draw in snapper, mullet, rays, and the occasional shark while guides feed fish alongside the boats — the company guarantees fish sightings. Daytime options include an island and mangrove tunnel adventure through John's Pass and straightforward glass bottom kayak rentals for paddlers who want to explore on their own. The kayaks are stable sit-on-tops, so no paddling experience is required, and kids are welcome on family-friendly departures.
Beyond the novelty of the boats, Sharkey's ties every booking to an ocean cleanup mission, with a portion of each purchase funding beach and water cleanups along the routes the tours paddle. Between the one-of-a-kind night format, the conservation angle, and guides who have effectively trained local fish to follow the light, it is one of the most distinctive tours on the barrier islands.
