Visit Seahorse Point – Day visitors
The cost of your half-day visit is $50 per adult; children under 12 years are half price, a full day pass is $85
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.
If you would like to visit Seahorse Point, you can book to come for a half or full 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. 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 included. Arrive at 9am or 1pm for our half-day tours, or at 9am for a full day.
The cost of your half-day visit is $50 per adult; children under 12 years are half price. the package includes
- Introduction presentation and refreshments on arrival and a light lunch in our Seagrass Cafe
- 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 the day and even the night there!). 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 tree-toed sloths who have been seen there almost every day (this walk is illuminated at night should you want to enquire about our night tours when the nocturnal two-toed sloths come out to play). 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 they really are.
- 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 slo-mo on your phone camera; and spot the numerous brightly coloured dragonflies and butterflies at work keeping the ecosystem in balance (have your slo-mo 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.
- Pre-book (to avoid disappointment) the use of our Pescador kayaks to explore the multitude of mangrove islands in Bahia Honda or paddle into the National Marine Park through The Cut around Clyde's Island. An early morning paddle seems to attract the attention of the local dolphins as they cruise through to feed in Bahia Honda. It is just a magical adventure to take a packed lunch, mask and snorkel and go explore. You will see different species of starfish grazing on the mangrove banks and lots of tiny and bigger fish enjoying the ebb and flow of gentle tides.
- 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 husk and used coffee to discourage any bugs who might want to ruin the fun.
- "Coming very soon" will be Bahia Honda coconut processing demonstrations and cocoa/chocolate making 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.