If you need another reason to visit Big Sur in California, we have a whale of a reason for you. In late winter and early spring, thousands of gray whales, many with calves in tow, swim by this part of the Pacific coast as they migrate from the warm waters of Baja California to their summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea. Come winter, they pass by again on the swim south. The entire round-trip route clocks in at about 12,000 miles, making gray whales among the longest migrators of the animal kingdom. Because they travel close to the coastline, it"s also one of the few whale migrations you can see from shore.
Gray days ahead in Monterey
Today in History
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Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire, England
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Fox kits
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Happy Thanksgiving
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First day of autumn
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Tintern Abbey, Wales
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It’s NASA’s 60th birthday
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Alaska moose
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Sandhill cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
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A desert arts pop-up, just popped up
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It s not always sunny in Abu Simbel…
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Celebrating Norwegian Constitution Day
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Arches National Park, Utah
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St. Patricks Day
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Snow on the temple
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Merry and bright
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Te Rewa Rewa Bridge near New Plymouth, New Zealand
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Frozen fun in the Canadian cold
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Cue up the tango music
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Shhh, the movie is about to start
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A day for our oceans
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Château de Villandry, France
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Land ho in New Zealand 250 years ago
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A night of art and culture
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Heron lies the Salton Sea
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Is that a buzzing sound?
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Maybe we should be looking up
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Honoring the rangers on World Ranger Day
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Seasonal lights dazzle in Japan
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Manatees rebound
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Atop the Needle of Chamonix