Pismo Beach Travel Blog

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February 5: California Western Monarch Day

The Pismo Beach Conference & Visitors Bureau has teamed up with Amtrak to make this year's Feb. 5 California Western Monarch Day celebration both memorable and affordable. Walk, jog, drive, bicycle, or ride the Amtrak -- kids for free -- to experience the miracle of the Monarch butterfly migration…

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Butterfly Beach Party - San Francisco Chronicle Article

" Pismo Beach salutes another winter migrant with a special celebration for California Western Monarch Day. The visitors bureau will serve cake and punch to the humans visiting the city's butterfly grove, which has hosted an average of 25,000 monarch butterflies over the last five years and holds…

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Pismo Beach Monarch Grove Update

A visit this week to the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove showed that the butterfly count on the board was holding steady at 21,000. With the weather forecast for the remainder of this week and all of next week calling for mid-sixties to low seventies temps, this appears to be a great time to…

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Pismo Monarch Grove Update

Drove by the Monarch Grove today. The latest Monarch count on the board was 21,000, which is greater than the biggest count from last year's season. This bodes well for this year. Usually the biggest numbers are counted in late December, even early January. Photo by Lisa D Walker…

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Pismo Beach Monarch Count Update

The latest count at the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove is 19,000. This count is already greater than the top count of 17,000 for the 2009 season. This count bodes well for our Monarch season. In years past the largest count number is posted in late December or early January. There is plenty of…

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Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove 2010

Over at the Monarch Butterfly Grove this week they have been preparing for the beginning of the Monarch season. The docent trailer should be in place soon. We will post when the docents are ready and the grove will begin it's 2010 season. There have been a number of improvements implemented…

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