Campo Cortez: Everything gets wet
February 18, 2017
By Maria-Teresa Solomons
Guide Report from Campo Cortez at San Ignacio Lagoon, BCS, Mexico
It’s been a windy deluge of a week at Laguna
San Ignacio, but then the world at large has been having similar upheavals and
environment reflects some of the things we choose to leave behind when we visit
here.
Wind, heavy
rain, blustery days, but guests come and go and still depart with hugs and
tears.
Some of the
most unexpected days of heavy weather when we head out into the waves in rain
gear can be the days we come back smiling as broadly as any other. In this last
group when the whales supposedly shelter a little from the white caps and
appear less spontaneously next to the boats than on most other days, we had
three mothers and babies turn their noses towards us to come to interact. The
panga was in uproar and as one touch followed another there was the usual boat
shuffle shifting sides so that everyone could touch.
There are
of course down times when the prolific 360 degree spectacle of breaching,
spy-hopping and even now, as some displays of mating surprise everyone and it’s
important to remember that observing this as much as the touch, is part of the
beauty of the adventure.
You are
welcome to choose to begin each day with a gentle centering practice of
breathwork which I’ve taken from yoga and Qigong meditation. Most guests have
had little practice of either and it might come as a pleasant surprise to
stretch without the need to be on all fours, or down at ground level, or
sweating into unknown poses, but just to stand and become consciously aware of
the elements, that as the wind whips around the edges of the cabins, are
actually hard to obscure.
The morning
wind as the sun rises is part of that experience, the blanketing yellows and
reds on the afternoon horizon, and flocks of willets, and royal terns, skating
across the sky before the night stars light up…are the lagoon’s magic qualities
that are its double blessing.
It’s a
perfect opportunity to be able distance yourself for a few days to slow down
and be aware of all those things.
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