San Blas (or learning to swim with sharks)

After bumping into the “Comprehensive Planned Center”, San Blas was where I really wanted to arrive. What’s exciting of San Blas is shark fishing and its colonial look. Fortunately, as I move towards the south of Mexico, the beaches seem to be of a much more folklore image like the one I was looking for since the very beginning; although, form time to time, the images of the golf courses break it (is it that you can not think of a beach without a golf course?).

As I already got used to see tourist resorts in the region, this time I was not surprised at all. I discovered in the newspaper that the soil degradation estimations say that the degradation will be irreparable in 14 years, while the ecosystems’ will be irremediable in 24. The snail eater snake is one of many species that are endangered.

Then, I went to the fishing boats to look for the survivors and to discover the living legend of the “Shipwreck survivors”, who lived nine months in the sea. I failed and ended up drinking in a nearby bar along with a bunch of fishermen who told me about the huge and unbelievable number of versions of the legend. But everyone agreed in one thing: they wouldn’t go astray for so long if they wouldn’t have to go so far to look for sharks and other fishes.

The problem of the tourist resorts in Nayarit not only forecasts ecosystem degradation: the villagers had suffered the relocation of their homes as to favor the tourist businessmen. It looks like everybody’s refuge is the sea, where the famous “shipwreck survivors” found a way to survive out of shark and ice.