Friday, January 9, 2009

Winter on the Central Coast

The winter in the central coast of California is wonderful, not just because of the weather, mostly sunny and in the mid-sixties, but it is along the migratory routes of several animal species. With this in mind we took two trips this week to check out some critter migration.


On Tuesday we travelled down to the village of Los Osos, just outside of Morro Bay. In Los Osos there is a small park called the Sweet Springs Nature Preserve. This is a 24 acre nature preserve along the edge of Morro Bay. There are several trails which meander through Monterrey Cypress  and eucalyptus groves. But the reason we came here today was the fact that from October to March, monarch butterflies cluster in the branches of the eucalyptus trees. We saw bunches of them ...it was pretty cool!  See if you can find Sweet Springs Nature Preserve in Google Earth: 35º. 19'.16.76 N  120º.50.29.73W



Tomorrow's blog... San Simeon, and and elephant seal migrations

3 comments:

Brandon said...

Hi this is Brandon. Last night i saw a coyote it was sitting in my yard when I was snowmobiling. We have a project in French I wish you were here to help me. It is on a map. With the wind chill it's been -6. I hope you are having fun.

Brandon said...

Hi this is Brandon. We are starting a project in French. It is a map. I wish you were here to help me. and how has your trip been? I haven't been snowmobiling yet but I will go this Friday. The wind chill here is -6.

KatieS said...

Hi Mr.K its me Katie S and i am having so much fun with all of the snow that we are getting and i wish that you were here to enjoy it with us.