It’s a chilly morning and the orange face of the sun has just poked above the horizon, casting sparkling diamonds of light across the gently undulating waters of Magdalena Bay in Baja California Sur, Mexico. As my wife, Shirin, and I stroll down the narrow, sandy beach, our tranquil scene is transformed by a large…
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Visiting Millions of Monarchs in the Mountains of Mexico
In late February, 2020, my wife and I journeyed to Mexico to witness one of the greatest mysteries of the animal kingdom–200 million monarch butterflies overwintering in the high-altitude forests of central Mexico. Many of the butterflies’ gossamer orange and black wings had carried them nearly 3000 miles to the mountains of Michoacan, Mexico. Miraculously,…