Afternoon: Participants may pick up nametag and schedule for the week anytime between 4:00 - 5:00 PM followed by orientation and dinner in the hotel conference room. Guests hotel check-in is 4:00 pm in the main lobby.

Dinner: Catered meal at hotel.

Evening: Your Road Scholar coordinator will walk you through the weeks activities as you follow along on your schedule. Each person gives their name and where they're from. We don't play name games or get acquainted games. You'll have plenty of time to get to know one another during your weeks activities.

Lodging: Residence Inn by Marriott Amelia Island

Meals Included: Dinner

Huguenot Park/Kingsley Plantation/Amelia Island/Pumpkin Hill State Park

Breakfast: Breakfast at Shoney's right next door.

Morning: These are great birding areas for shorbirds, waders, and ducks. You will also explore Fort George Island and the grounds of Kingsley Plantation.

Lunch: Lunch at hotel/local restaurant or picnic.

Afternoon: Field trip to orient you to your surroundings on Amelia Island at the historic town of Fernandina Beach.

Dinner: Dinner at hotel.

Evening: Lecture or entertainment

Lodging: Residence Inn by Marriott Amelia Island

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast

Morning: Field trip to Big Talbot and Little Talbot Islands for more birding. Located on one of the sea islands unique to Northeast Florida, this is primarily a natural preserve and a premier location for nature study, bird watching, and photography. Little Talbot Island is one of the few remaining undeveloped barrier islands in NE Florida.

Lunch: Lunch on field trip...could be picnic or at local restaurant.

Afternoon: Field trip continues.

Dinner: Dinner at hotel.

Evening: Local Entertainment

Lodging: Residence Inn by Marriott Amelia Island

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast

Morning: Ferry to Cumberland Island for a day of birding on one of the most beautiful barrier islands off the coast of Georgia.

Lunch: Picnic lunch on Cumberland Island.

Afternoon: Birding on Cumberland Island continues.

Dinner: Dinner at hotel.

Evening: Free evening

Lodging: Residence Inn by Marriott Amelia Island

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast at hotel.

Morning: All day birding in the Okefenokee Swamp. Boat fleet consists of 24’ Carolina Skiffs with canopies overhead and includes a wheelchair-accessible boat. Watch birds through what is arguably the world's most famous birding window, trek into one of the most unusual and interesting places to see in the Okefenokee Swamp where hundreds of wading birds return to roost for the night. Search for warblers and thrushes and try to locate tiny songsters flitting in the tops of centuries-old cypress trees. Along the way you can see the rarest of the rare, the red-cockaded woodpecker; wild turkeys, wading birds such as wood storks, ring-necked ducks and other waterfowl, hear the Bob-white call of the northern bobwhite, see blue grosbeaks and indigo buntings looking much like brightly colored ornaments hung on shrubs growing in field borders, as well as Mississippi kites, ospreys and bald eagles exhibit their mastery of the air. All told, 263 species of birds have been identified at sites along the trail. We can't promise you'll see all of them but we do know they have been sited before and it may be your turn on this Road Scholar program.

Lunch: Picnic lunch at the Okenenokee Swamp.

Afternoon: Continuation of birding in the Okefenokee Swamp.

Dinner: Dinner at Hotel

Evening: Social and farewell

Lodging: Residence Inn by Marriott Amelia Island

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner