The Butterfly zone underwater

First we headed toward Monterey to view the butterfly habitat where the monarcks were roosting. The trees were full of butterflies. It was hard to get clear pictures because the branches were all too high on the euclyptus tree, so here is just a branch with one butterfly. They were flying from one tree to the next, they were beautiful.


Next we had some lunch at a little cafe across from the Monterey Aquarium. It was beautiful and had lots of interesting exhibits. Here are a few of my favorite pictures of the aquarium.






After the aquarium we went to Santa Cruz and had chowder (mom and I had manhattan clam chowder.) The gull was one of our little friends. He was looking in the window at us and so we decided to feed him...what a mistake....first there was one bird, then 20, then 50...we fed them our left over rolls and oyster crackers and got the heck out of there..