A group of tourists looking to get a taste of the Florida Everglades got way more than their moneys worth when an alligator leaped into their airboat.

Tylor Hindery, from Springfield, Missouri, who filmed the heart-stopping encounter last week, said he had hoped to see some of the reptiles on vacation. Then the boat he was on came upon an alligator resting along the waters edge.

The guy killed the engine and we just floated over, he told The Miami Herald . We got stuck on the bank, and he didnt want to turn the engine on and scare everything.