I am always so surprised how such a short drive can make you feel like you are hundreds of miles away from Los Angeles. Forty-five minutes can pretty much drop you in the middle of nowhere. A completely different place with fantastic views.
The intention for this trip was to view the over-wintering Monarch population. I won't bore you with all the sciency stuff, but basically the butterflies west of the Rockies hang out on the California cost in the winter months. Any butterflies east of the Rockies go to Mexico. In October and November you can see concentrations of Monarchs in Sycamore trees, so vibrant that the trees look firey orange. What better place to see them than in Sycamore Canyon.
In total we saw one Monarch. The guide told us to follow that Monarch until we found its friends, but it dipped into a no mans land of snarled branches, underbrush and trees. So we didn't follow.
But we did see bees in a heartshaped hive
The greatest thing about the hike, 4 miles in total, was the free aromatherapy session. There was wild sage, rosemary, wild fennel and something at random that smelled like dill pickles. It was very relaxing and much needed before the start of my work week. That and it made me hungry for pickles.
The sunset video was taken shortly after our hike, across highway 1 on the beach.
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