Optional Activities

Details regarding the optional manatee snorkel tour are now available.
To participate, please respond by: Wednesday, October 15, 2025.

To respond, send an email to Christa with the following information:

  • Number of spaces you would like to reserve for your family

  • Full names and ages of all participants

    Once you respond with the requested information, you will be provided with an invoice for the associated cost so that you can submit your payment online. Payment will be due by Monday, December 1, 2025.

 
 

Manatee Snorkel

Friday, January 23, 2026; 6 - 9 AM
@Birds Underwater Diver Center, Crystal River, FL
For this event we will join Birds Underwater Dive Center to snorkel with the manatees in Crystal River. Birds Underwater will provide information on the appropriate ways to interact with manatees based on federal regulations and your teacher will be on hand to answer any manatee-related questions you may have!

This excursion is open to registered students and their family members. The tour can accommodate a maximum of thirty (30) people with six (6) to eight (8) people on each boat. Priority is provided to registered students. The remaining spaces are awarded once interest level is determined.

Cost: $65 per person

Response Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Payment Deadline: Monday, December 1, 2025

If payment is not received by the payment deadline, your spaces will be offered to the next interested party.

Reminders:

  • The tour includes masks, snorkels, wetsuits, snacks and drinks. However, if you would prefer to bring your own wetsuit, snorkel gear or snacks, you may do so. They will have plenty of wetsuits in a variety of sizes to accommodate both children and adults.

  • In order to snorkel with the manatees we will be traveling via boat to the springs. The boats sit six to eight people so we will be taking several boats to accommodate our group.

  • Please have your bathing suits on under your clothes when you arrive. Bring a towel for each person and a change of clothes. There is a privacy curtain on board the boats, so you can change into dry clothes when you get out of the water.

  • Please arrive at the scheduled tour time. This is the time we meet at the dive shop to prepare for the tour, not the time we leave.