Visit to Seahorse Point...Inside out Bocas

Seahorse Point Experience

Our objective is to have you leave us wanting to know more, and we hope you will want to come back again soon and, most importantly, fall more in love with the environment and do what you can to regenerate nature in your daily life.

The tour is called 'Inside Out' because as opposed to looking up at trees in the forest, you actually go 60 ft up and into the canopy. Instead of looking at the sloths in the mangrove from a boat, you walk through the mangrove forest on our boardwalk, and as opposed to just looking at marine life, we take a filter sample and look at the microscopic life that actually regulates and controls the life support systems for the entire planet.

If you would like to visit Seahorse Point, you can book a day and can pick and choose from a range of activities. Even if it is raining, Seahorse Point is geared up to ensure you don't stay indoors but still have a lot of fun. Our bubble umbrellas ensure you get out into the rainforest to look for sloths and white-faced capuchin monkeys and spot Shrek and Fiona in our little lagoon. The tour operators refer to our mangrove as 'Sloth Point' because there are many sloths in the trees.

Coffee/tea or freshly made soft drinks, homemade cookies and a light lunch prepared from organic ingredients and herbs and leaves from our garden are available for purchase in the Seagrass Cafe.

Getting to Seahorse Point

We can organise a taxi boat to pick you up from Bocas Docks at 10 am and return you at 1 pm or you can organise your own taxi. Book your taxi here; book the seahorse point boat

The package includes

• Introduction, a presentation, on arrival
• Visit the tree net, which ascends 60 feet up into a cedar tree. Here you can often observe wildlife, birds and the numerous heliconia and different colours and shapes of tropical plants below. From the top deck of the Treenet, you will enjoy the views and breezes from Bahia Honda. (We might leave this to last, as some people like it so much they want to spend all their time in the net.
• Learn more about the tall, straight cedars; spend time and feel the breeze; and watch the leaves sway and the parakeets bickering, and just be in a different world surrounded by the lovely sounds of nature.
• We'll stroll along our mangrove boardwalk to find three-toed sloths who have been seen there every day. We never whistle because they think a bird of prey may be near, and they get super stressed! So if anyone whistles to attract a sloth's attention, let them know it is not a nice thing to do and they are causing panic.
• We'll explain our utter fascination with mangroves. Part of an exclusive tiny club of plants that keep their embryonic babies close, we hope you will never look at a mangrove again without thinking about how special it really is.
• We will explain the importance of seagrass in the making of those sandy beaches we all love, and most will know about corals, but there is so much to know, and we'll share our perspective on their critically important role.
• We will search for Shrek and Fiona, our little caiman; capture tiny Melipona bees in slow motion on your phone camera; and spot the numerous brightly coloured dragonflies and butterflies at work keeping the ecosystem in balance (have your slow motion ready). In this healthy little corner of Bocas, no one insect becomes dominant.
• Enjoy the 3.5 km of gentle walks through our garden and rainforest; this can be a guided walk, or you may choose to do it on your own.
• Spend time on a comfy chair in the Seagrass Cafe with a big mug of delicious Panama Coffee or tea made with fresh ginger (you can come and harvest it with us from the garden.) Browse our library of books on plankton and ocean life and files full of some academic papers that we both like and dislike. Seagrass Cafe gets lovely sea breezes, and when there isn't one, we use coconut husks and used coffee to discourage any bugs who might want to ruin the fun.
• Bahia Honda coconut processing demonstrations. We use our 100% organic coconut oil and flour in our biscuits and cakes, soaps and non-toxic insect repellent and sunblock, but it's super cool to see its preparation and gives a real insight as to why good-quality coconut products are expensive.
• Also planned is a small craft workshop making and selling local art produced at Seahorse Point and our lovely Nyobe neighbours.