Today we visited the Monarch Butterfly Grove in Pismo Beach. This is where thousands of Monarch Butterflies come each year to mate before moving on to the local milkweed plants to lay their eggs. It is close to the end of their season (they say they will be gone in a week or two) so there were only about 5,000 in the grove. Usually there are tens of thousands and in the past there were hundreds of thousands. All the orange in the photo above is butterflies. During the peak season the leaves in this eucalyptus grove look like they are covered with dead leaves. In reality it is all the butterflies.
It was cold here today. It never got out of the 50s today and the wind was blowing pretty good so there was a wind chill factor to boot. The Host here says it is not usually this cold. Tomorrow we are heading further north and will be at about 1000 feet so I am sure it will be pretty cold. It is supposed to rain so it might be a little warmer or we may have a pretty cold rain. The group we are meeting up with have the club room at the park so I suspect we will be hanging inside most of the weekend.
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