What is Magnetic Migration?

Why magnetic migration? Let me explain...

Now I'm no scientist, never have been, but I am taken with facts about animals. Ben and I went through a stint of just watching Lonely Planet & Natural World, and as a result David Attenborough is one of our heroes. One of the things I love is how birds know to go somewhere warmer for Winter. It started when I watched the beautiful film 'Fly Away Home' and I'm reminded of it every time I hear the geese land behind my house. I've often been slightly in awe of how these creatures just know the way.

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From birth a bird is preparing for its first flight, the leap of faith when it trusts in the wings it was born with. Migration is an even bigger feat. To cross countries, mountains and oceans to find the 'right place' for them. Swallows breed in Europe and spend the Winter in Africa, the Rufous Hummingbird migrates 3,000 miles in one go and despite many obstacles in their way, more than 4,000 species of bird successfully migrate each year.

Some suggest that the birds use the stars, sun, wind and land-forms to help navigate their way, but overwhelmingly it is believed that birds, as well as Pacific Salmon, Sea Turtles and Monarch Butterflies, use the Earth's magnetic fields to guide their path.

So there we have it, magnetic migration, the process of leaving 'home', and trusting on an unseen route that has been predetermined to lead you to where you 'need' to be.

And that's what we are hoping this adventure will be. A trip that has no presumptions, no set plan, no expectations but to trust that we will be led, via our own magnetic migration, to the places we need to be.

This blog will let you know what we discover as we discover it. To introduce to the people we meet as we meet them. And to relay the excitement we have for exploring our own place in this world. 

Enjoy,

M&B 

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