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programs, tours and events

AT ROOKERY BAY RESERVE
register at www.rookerybay.org/calendar

Guided Kayak Tours Dec. 10, 8 – 10 a.m.
Two-hour guided kayak Adventure Race

tours let you explore Enjoy a 3k kayak along Henderson Creek and a 4k trail run
backwater bays and at the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center to benefit
mangrove forests while the Friends of Rookery Bay. All participants will receive a
you paddle lazily through t-shirt, post-race refreshments, Rookery Bay water bottle, and
the shallows and mazelike free admission to the Environmental Learning Center and entry
mangrove tunnels while for door prizes. Awards will be presented to the top finishers
learning about your surroundings from an experienced guide in each category: men, women, relays, tandem teams and surf-
and naturalist. These tours, the only ones provided by an skis. Cost varies by category, registration is required.
actual Rookery Bay Research Reserve staff member, provide
opportunities to see wildlife such as wading birds, osprey, fish Dec. 11, 12 or 13, 4 – 7 p.m.
and dolphins. Pre-registration is required. Cost is $69, includes Sunset to Starlight Cruise
same day admission to the Environmental Learning Center.
Offered every Tuesday through Friday. This one-of-a-kind tour takes place in the evening and is
often (but not always) around the time of the full moon. Guests
Dec. 5 – 9, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. will visit a remote section of Keewaydin Island, renowned for
Art Class: Paint Portraits in Acrylic its shell-strewn beaches and pastel sunsets. Stroll along and
enjoy beachcombing until the magical moment when the sun
Create beautiful portraits sinks into the Gulf. As darkness gradually enfolds you, begin
in acrylic with Lee Hammond. the leisurely return cruise through the back bays of the reserve,
Based on her painting books becoming immersed in the sights, sounds and sensations of
by North Light, Lee will night in a mangrove-forested estuary. If the tide permits, you
show you how to achieve will ease by the rookery island where hundreds of herons,
beautiful skin tones, hair and egrets and ibis gather for the night. Participants must have the
clothing. Lee Hammond is physical ability to step down into, and up from, the boat at a
a police composite artist, dock. Pre-registration is required. Cost is $109, includes same
holds licenses to paint pictures of NASCAR drivers, and has day admission to the Environmental Learning Center.
published more than 30 art instruction books that have sold
more than one million copies. Now, she brings her passion to Dec. 12, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
the Rookery Bay Reserve, where she teaches art classes each Essentials of Digital Photography Workshop
season. Pre-registration is required. Cost is $395, supplies are
not included. This workshop helps photographers get the most out of
their digital camera. Learn how to use the camera's shutter,
Dec. 9, 2 – 5 p.m. aperture, ISO control and the drive modes to create images
Life’s A Beach Boat Tour with impact and creativity. No previous camera or photography
experience is necessary, just a desire to learn. Sonny Saunders
This tour provides an has over 35 years of experience in photography and instruction
opportunity to explore and is renowned for his ability to communicate to a wide
Keewaydin Island, a natural, variety of students. Cost is $55, registration is required.
living barrier island with an
incredible diversity of life Dec. 15, 2 – 5 p.m.
and some of the best shelling High Points Boat Tour
in Florida. Stroll the beach with your naturalist guide and
learn about all the things you are seeing: specially adapted Come along on this small
native plants, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans, corals, sea boat cruise through back bays
squirts, snails, sponges, worms, fishes, birds, reptiles, and and winding creeks to visit a
more. Participants must have the physical ability to step down particularly unusual place in
into, and up from, the boat at a dock. Closed-toed shoes are Rookery Bay Reserve. After
recommended for the walk across the island (and can be disembarking, take a short hike
removed on the beach). Pre-registration is required. Cost to one of the highest points in
is $109, includes same day admission to the Environmental Collier County, an ancient sand
Learning Center. Also offered Dec. 20 and 22. dune relic from the Pleistocene Era. Your naturalist guide
will help you see and appreciate the geologic history of Sand

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