My second attempt at seeing the monarch butterflies at their winter roost in Santa Cruz was a success! It took about ten minutes of looking for the supposed 1000 that was still around to find them. They were clumped together, and from a distance you would just think that they were leaves, but infact they were a clump of several hundred butterflies.
I was lucky enough to witness a micro burst - when all the butterflies in a clump spontaneously take to the sky. Thus they burst and it looked pretty neat with them all flying about :)
Then with some time and good winter weather, I went to the state park just up the coast. There I saw an animal only beach (closed for human access), two seals (which oddly enough seemed to be looking at me the whole time...), and a sea otter!! The sea otter was pretty cool. It was submerging itself and coming up with some food and lying on it's back munching away on it :] There were two seagulls following it to see if they could scavenge any leftovers.
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