Ensenada (or the odd adaptation of a fairy tale story)

I’m still unable to describe Ensenada. Should I say that is a city with beach, a city on the beach, or a beach with a city? And I feel exactly the same when I think on its nickname “The beautiful Cinderella of the Pacific”. I just don’t get it. It doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever. What I could learn from the locals was that it is call as such due to its “faultless beauty”, which, of course, doesn’t tell me a thing about the connection with fairy tales or lost glass slippers. 

Anyways… Maybe it is because under the ashes there is a beautiful princess. The problem is that, these princess’ ashes mounts up among untreated solid wastes, coastal waters affected by the tourism increase, and humongous waste water discharges in the sea. 

But it also could be because many of its charms are a bit hidden: there are cave paintings, beautiful beaches, vineyards… and all of them are affected by the pollution which stains the beautiful Cinderella’s face.

The mice that help to turn this municipality into a princess are working in the scientific laboratories that are located in Ensenada, where resides the highest average of researchers in Mexico. They are forecasting the disasters which will take place twenty years from now if the solid wastes number increases as it has been doing so far, and if the sea is being polluted with badly-treated wastewaters.

For now, surfing in San Miguel Beach and diving in Estero Beach is not toxic. In the cave paintings the air is not polluted and the fish tacos are a delicacy. Nevertheless, the mystery of Cinderella will remain unexplained.