Ride the Ducks is a national duck tour operator, and an eponymous tourist attraction in U.S. cities such as Branson, Missouri; Newport, Kentucky; San Francisco, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Stone Mountain Park, Georgia. It makes use of over 90 amphibious vehicles (nicknamed "ducks") to provide tours of cities by boat and by land. Ride the Ducks is owned by Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation, which is involved in various family entertainment ventures.
Ride the Ducks of San Francisco also operates Classic Cable Car Sightseeing in which customers can take a city tour on a San Francisco Classic Cable Car. Some are original cable cars from the California Street Cable Car Line dating back to the late 19th century/early 20th century. All others were built from the ground up using the original cable car blueprints and constructed of solid oak and brass.
Similar duck-boat based tours operate in other cities (such as Cincinnati, Boston, Portland, Seattle, and Toronto), but are not operated by Ride The Ducks. Ride The Ducks has provided vehicles to some of these other companies, such as their relationship with Boston's Duck Tours.
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Famous quotes containing the words ride the, ride and/or ducks:
“How soon I may ride the whole world about;
And at the third question thou must not shrink,
But tell me here truly what I do think.””
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 30–32)
“The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,
For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,
With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)