Latin America
Monarchs: Poetry in Motion
Nothing could have prepared me for today. ‘I was blind, and now I can see,’ I think I’ve heard that before, seems appropriate now.
Good Nature Travel Blog
-
-
Nature & Wildlife
Thank You, Butterflies! | Olaf’s Corner
Our home library in Georgia is brimming with all kinds of dog-eared books about adventure, conservation, economics and science. The exception is a dozen of wooden boxes piled up high on top of the shelves, smelling of camphor and filled with pin-mounted butterflies.
-
Latin America
Traveler Story: Swimming with Mexico’s Whale Sharks
“I recently returned from Nat Hab’s Swimming with Mexico’s Whale Sharks excursion. Until I visited this Caribbean paradise, I had no idea that sea and sky could simultaneously produce so many shades of blue! It is my time with the whale sharks, however, that will be forever etched in both my memory and heart.
-
Travel Tales
Snorkeling the Mesoamerican Reef
“As much as the trip was about swimming with whale sharks, the experience that will have the most lasting effect on me was snorkeling the Mesoamerican Reef. After swimming with whale sharks for two days, we headed back to Puerto Morelos.
-
Travel Tips
Rules of the Butterfly Kingdom
The monarch butterfly has the most highly evolved migration pattern of any known species of butterfly. They travel between 1,200 and 2,800 miles from the United States and Canada to central Mexican forests.
-
News & More
Be a Wildlife Naturalist During August’s Solar Eclipse
On Monday, August 21, 2017—for the first time in nearly a century—a total solar eclipse will cross the United States from coast to coast. A solar eclipse happens when a new moon moves between the Earth and the sun, blocking all or some of the sun’s rays.
-
Travel Tales
Traveler Story: Among the Great Whales
“Trip of a lifetime, it’s not every day you get to pet a gray whale, or two. We saw four blue whales, hundreds of dolphins and dozens of humpback whales. The Nat Geo Sea Bird staff and crew are the best.”
-
Travel Tales
Q-and-A: Mexico’s Kingdom of the Monarchs
Of all migrations by small creatures, few are as astonishing as the one performed by the monarch butterfly. The embodiment of fragility, these insects travel between 1,200 and 2,800 miles or more between their starting and ending points—a feat without parallel.
-
Travel Tales
Traveler Story: Monarch Butterfly Migration
“The whole monarch butterfly tour was magical and most memorable, from start to finish. We had a small group of just 13 people, plus the two tour guides, so we had lots of opportunities to sit in various groupings and one-on-one in order to get to know each other.
-
News & More
Enter Our Monarch Butterfly Adventure Giveaway!
The monarch butterfly migration is quite simply one of the most jaw-dropping spectacles on earth. While one may initially think that the migration event is one dimensional (after all, it is just one species, right?), it couldn’t be further from the truth.
-
Travel Tales
Exploring Mexico’s Secret Underworlds
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.”
-
Videos
Video: Swimming with Mexico’s Whale Sharks
I shot this video after traveling for two hours off the coast of Isla Holbox by motor boat on Natural Habitat Adventure’s Swimming with Mexico’s Whale Sharks Adventure.