🏨 Relaxed morning. Breakfast at Hotel Villa Hermosa. 

🚌 Private bus to Hotel Playa Negra. 

Welcome to our home for the next six days!

🏨Settle into rooms

🌅Team building game

🎨 First class: Capturing the essence of tropical landscapes on your pages.  

🌅After lunch and siesta we will have an optional beach exploration walk. You can stay behind and relax in the hammocks by the pool. 

🌅Meet for cocktails and sunset painting before dinner.

 Please note that the itinerary may be subject to change due to availability, weather, safety concerns, or other unforeseen circumstances. 

🌅Wake up to the sound of the ocean. 

🌅 Optional pre-breakfast nature journaling session with coffee in hand (Marley’s favorite!). 

🌅Group breakfast. 

🌿Today’s class: Botanical sketching and nature journaling plants. Rest of morning spent nature journaling the tropical beach plants. 

🌅We will do a citizen science component using iNaturalist and surveying the beach plants which are crucial for the health of beaches around the world. Choose your specimens for the afternoon. 

🌅Lunch and siesta. 

🎨🌿 Afternoon session: work on your own plant illustration from the comfort of the hotel. Meet for cocktails and sunset painting before dinner.

 Please note that the itinerary may be subject to change due to availability, weather, safety concerns, or other unforeseen circumstances. 

 🌅Wake up to the sound of the ocean. 

 🌅Pre-breakfast session. Group breakfast. 

 🏝️Today’s class: Landscape painting level two. Marley will help you make your landscapes even better with lots of one-on-one instruction. The rest of the morning will be spent practicing painting watercolor landscapes from the beach. We might hike up the beach a ways to look for more landscape options with white beaches contrasting against dramatic black volcanic rock stretching out into the waves and tropical green vegetation dangling off the seaside cliffs. 

 🌅Lunch and siesta. 

 🎨Afternoon session: choose your own adventure or relax. 

 🌅Meet for cocktails and sunset painting before dinner. 

 🌅Optional night time nature journaling TBD.

 Please note that the itinerary may be subject to change due to availability, weather, safety concerns, or other unforeseen circumstances. 

 🌅Wake up to the sound of the ocean. 

🌅Pre-breakfast session. Group breakfast. 

🦀 Today’s class: Amphibious nature journaling in the tide pools at nearby Playa Blanca. Marley will instruct on different approaches to nature journaling the biodiversity and beauty of the intertidal zone. There will be various options depending on your ability. From snorkeling and waterproof paper, to sitting  “jacuzzi” style in the tidepools, to sketching collected specimens from the comfort of the hotel restaurant with a cappuccino at your side. Once again, we will go beyond nature journaling just for our own enjoyment. We will do a survey of the organisms we find and contribute to citizen science by uploading the survey to iNaturalist. 

🌅Lunch and siesta. 

🎨Afternoon session: choose your own adventure or relax. 

🌅Meet for cocktails and sunset painting before dinner. 

🌅Optional night time nature journaling TBD.

 Please note that the itinerary may be subject to change due to availability, weather, safety concerns, or other unforeseen circumstances. 

 🌅 Wake up to the sound of the ocean. 

 🌅Pre-breakfast session. 

 🌅Group breakfast. 

 🐢Today’s class: All about sea turtles! We will visit a sea turtle conservation project and learn about how they have helped thousands of turtles. If we are lucky we could see a hatching day or adult turtles laying at night. 

🌅We will have dinner at a restaurant near the beach. 

🌅Night time hike on the beach looking for sea turtles coming in to lay???

 Please note that the itinerary may be subject to change due to availability, weather, safety concerns, or other unforeseen circumstances. 

🌅 Wake up to the sound of the ocean. We might be recovering from a late night looking for nesting turtles. 

🌅 Group breakfast.

🌴 Today’s class: Botanical sketching and illustration level two! Are you ready to go more in-depth with a polished plant illustration? Now is your chance. Marley will provide one-on-one instruction and we will have all morning to work on our specimen. 

🌅Lunch and siesta. 

🎨Afternoon session: Marley will provide tips for wrapping up your pages, adding maps, more detailed illustrations, and even some scrap-booking techniques. The idea is to get the most out of your journal pages from the trip.

🦀 If you are feeling adventurous Marley might lead a few people to nature journal crabs in the nearby mangrove.

🌅Meet for cocktails and sunset painting before dinner. 

🌅This is our last dinner together at Playa Negra so we will de something special to honor the time we have spent together. 

✈️ Departure Day. This is your last day waking up in your cozy beach-side cabin. 

🌅Say goodbye to Playa Negra’s beautiful waters.

✈️Those who are flying out today will be taken to the airport by our driver at the time that works for most people. If your flight is much earlier or much later you can decide to take your own transportation directly to the airport.

 Please note that the itinerary may be subject to change due to availability, weather, safety concerns, or other unforeseen circumstances.