San Quintin (or unbalanced ecology)

n a true spirit of solidarity with the travelers, through this media I write the following WARNING: while you continue your trip by the coast of California, Mexico, the water level will be decreasing more and more every time. Towards the San Quintin Bay the golden beach turns ocher-colored, just like the desert.

Of course, with the attitude of the traveler the landscape seems, well, astonishing. And it is, as long as you don’t notice what’s going on under it; ladies and gentlemen, Mexicans and foreigners: we are running out of water.

It is really funny to see that there are beaches lying at the side of the desert. On one side there is a lot of water (salty, of course) and, on the other side there is a major plundering of aquifers in an attempt to save the crops, which do not get better with the water…it is so few, that simply isn’t enough.

At least I already knew it. That’s why the next piece of news is more shocking than the last one… and so on. In San Quintin I stopped in front of a “nautical ladder” (upscale yacht facilities) from where you could see luxurious yachts. Constructions like this one and many other ones (highways, marinas, etc.) pass just over o really close to Natural Protected Areas. Why not?! It’s not like nature would last forever, right?

One of those useless things that I learned in school was something that artists call “Fortuitous compositions”. You can find them in the nature when a landscape seems to be set up with certain unexplainable harmony. In San Quintin, its rock formations and landscapes framed by volcanoes seem to shout: “Look at me, take a picture. I’m a natural work of art. Hurry up before something is placed over or through me!”