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