World Travel, Marc and Peggy Faucher

Belize and Mexico, 2015

We visited Belize in January, 2015, flying to Belize City and exploring the coast, rainforests and hills. For more details, visit our blog entries at
"Earth, Sky and Underworld" and " You Better Belize It!".

We continued to Mexico and visited the monarch butterfly sanctuaries in the highlands west of Mexico City. Millions of monarch butterflies migrate south from Canada and the USA to this small area for the winter. See our blog entries at "Where Have all the Monarchs Gone?" and "The Human Side of Central Mexico".

We then flew to southern Baja to see the gray whale winter migration at Magdalena Bay and San Ignacio Lagoon along the Pacific coast. Gray whales swim over 6,000 miles from their summer feeding grounds in the Bering and Chukchi Seas between Alaska and Siberia. See our blog entries at
"Close Encounters of the Gray Whale Kind" and "Gray Whale Hanky-Panky".

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Our route in Belize
Our route in Belize
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Orange-Billed Royal Tern
Orange-Billed Royal Tern
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Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary
Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary
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Red Brocket Deer
Red Brocket Deer
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Full moon over South Water Caye
Full moon over South Water Caye
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Blue-headed Wrasse
Blue-headed Wrasse
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Ruddy turnstone
Ruddy turnstone
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Male Magnificent Frigate Bird
Male Magnificent Frigate Bird
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Scaly-breasted hummingbird
Scaly-breasted hummingbird
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El Castillo at Xunantunich
El Castillo at Xunantunich
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Male Masked tityra
Male Masked tityra
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Black iguana
Black iguana
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Jumping Viper
Jumping Viper
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Butterflies
Green Hills Butterfly Ranch
Cayo, Belize
Butterflies Green Hills Butterfly Ranch Cayo, Belize
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Violet Sabrewing
Violet Sabrewing
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Barton Creek Cave Entrance
Barton Creek Cave Entrance
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Golden silk orb-weaver
Golden silk orb-weaver
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Orange-breasted Falcon
Orange-breasted Falcon
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Caana from Temple in the
Caana from Temple in the "B" group Caracol Cayo District, Belize
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Roadside hawk
Roadside hawk
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Gallon Jug Farm
Gallon Jug Farm
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Crested guan
Crested guan
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Red-capped manakin
Red-capped manakin
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Gray Fox
Gray Fox
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Spider monkey
Spider monkey
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Bare-throated Tiger Heron
Bare-throated Tiger Heron
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Slatey-tailed Trogon
Slatey-tailed Trogon
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High Temple at Lamanai
High Temple at Lamanai
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Olive-throated parakeets
Olive-throated parakeets
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Ocellated turkey
Ocellated turkey
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Red-Eyed Tree Frog
Red-Eyed Tree Frog
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White Hawk
White Hawk
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Male Vermillion flycatcher
Male Vermillion flycatcher
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Mexican Red-rumped Tarantula
Mexican Red-rumped Tarantula
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Our route in Mexico
Our route in Mexico
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Male monarch butterfly
Male monarch butterfly
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Monarch butterfly clump
Monarch butterfly clump
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Female monarch butterfly
Female monarch butterfly
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Nevada de Toluca
Nevada de Toluca
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Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico
Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico
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Sunrise over Magdalena Bay, Baja
Sunrise over Magdalena Bay, Baja
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California fur seals near Magdalena Bay, Baja
California fur seals near Magdalena Bay, Baja
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Gray whale fluke, Magdalena Bay, Baja
Gray whale fluke, Magdalena Bay, Baja
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Male gray whale courting a female
Male gray whale courting a female
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Dolphin pair in Magdalena Bay
Dolphin pair in Magdalena Bay
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Brown pelican
Brown pelican
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Peggy and a gray whale
Peggy and a gray whale
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Dolphin chase near La Paz, Baja
Dolphin chase near La Paz, Baja
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Gray whale eye in San Ignacio Lagoon
Gray whale eye in San Ignacio Lagoon
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Gray whale breach at San Ignacio Lagoon
Gray whale breach at San Ignacio Lagoon
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Spyhop in San Ignacio Lagoon
Spyhop in San Ignacio Lagoon
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Mother and calf in San Ignacio Lagoon
Mother and calf in San Ignacio Lagoon
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Long-billed curlew
Long-billed curlew
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Black brants
Black brants
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Hiking into El Palmerita
Hiking into El Palmerita
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El Palmerita rock art
El Palmerita rock art

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