TIDE POOL DISCOVERY
How many types of marine life will we see and photograph as we explore the shoreline?
Activities: A Marine biologist will help us explore the Inter Tidal Zone during low tides. We will use digital still cameras to photograph in and under the water, and live underwater video cameras will let us see under the surface to search for more marine life as we stay dry on the shore. What will we see? sea stars, sea urchins, shore crabs, sea anemone, Dog Whelk shell, seaweed and many fish.
Time: Approximately two hours
Cost: 90 pesos per person
Group size: 8 to 30 persons
DATES:
Fall/Winter 2007:
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at low tide
Call 044-622-109-0962 for sign up, directions to location and additional information.
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STAR NIGHT - ASTRONOMY SESSIONS
Why can we see so many more stars here in the Sonoran Desert?
Activities: Basic astronomy lecture and night sky exploration using telescopes and computers to find objects in the night sky. Great views of Saturn and Jupiter. Update on one of the most beloved star pattern in the sky, the Big Dipper.
Time: approximately two hours
Cost: 80 pesos per person
Group size: 10 to 24 persons
DATES:
Fall/Winter 2007:
Dates to be determined
Call 044-622-109-0962 for sign up, directions to location and additional information.
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TRIP TO EMPALME
Visit the "Tianguis" in Empalme as a Conversational Spanish Lesson, and learn to use public buses.
Departure time: is 9:00 a.m., Sunday, from the parking lot, next to the bank.
Join us for a "Basic Conversational Spanish Lesson". Our class is going to take public buses to the "Garden City" of Empalme where we will have a walking tour of the Town Plaza and then go shopping at the Tianguis (Public Market). The language excursion will take about four hours, unless we end up in Obregón by mistake. You have to pay for your own shopping, your bus fare which is 30 pesos.
Lesson Cost: 80 pesos per person
Group size: 10 to 20 persons
Time: About 3-4 hours
DATES:
TBD
Call 044-622-109-0962 for sign up, directions to location and additional information.
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POOR'S MAN TOUR TO ALAMOS
Overnight Visit to Alamos as a Spanish lesson. Let's go! (using public transportation).
We depart from San Carlos for a visit to the beautiful Colonial town of Alamos. We will use public transportation all the way and teach you how to make bus transfers for a round trip to Alamos. Your bus fare will be about 230 pesos per person.
On the adventure our native Spanish Language teachers and guides are right there to assist you with communications -- but it is up to you to try and "just do it - and say it - in Spanish." We will have walking tours and meet the locals.
Cost: 800 pesos per person, which includes one night hotel, based on double occupancy, language lessons, and local information. Limited to 16 persons. Departure from the parking lot next to the bank. Return in the evening next day
DATES:
TBD
Call 044-622-109-0962 for sign up, directions to location and additional information.
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