Cruise of the Confidence 20-Nov-13

Vizcaino Bay: We did not venture into this Bay but there is a legend that came from here which I think warrants it's own entry. The story of The Whale Man and a sculpture of the whale man can be found on the waterfront in Ensenada. This story is taken right from the text on the sculpture. It is worth mentioning for all of those who have a desire to protect our environment and all that lives within it.

El Hombre Bellena (The Whale Man)

Where the desert ends, in the center of the Baja California peninsula at the immense Vizcaino Bay, the conjunction of the winds that arrive to Eugenia Point, is where the green beings and the aquatic beings congregated, messengers of all the nations on the planet.

Their faces were saddened, perplexed by the aggressive attitude of the human beings with their relationship to nature. During long nights and complete days, many moons and suns, they listened to deliberations on the predatory acts of man. They decided unanimously to elect an ambassador, to go and meet with the representatives of humanity and give them a scroll of a written petition; a message of intense love and profound respect, for our planet and all living beings who inhabit it. The goal of this message would be the beginning of a new era where all the natural resources are to be protected in benefit of all living beings and for the planet itself.

By the influence and magic of these powerful wishes, there arose an enormous creature, a being.  Of humanoid stature; half whale and half tree, who immediately took up the desert patch in search of the human representatives to comply with such a beautiful and  transcended mission.

The fins and the branches of this giant ambassador knew not of the hot desert sands; the strong winds, the darkness. Under the weather inclemency's he perished amongst the waves of sand, in the heart of the desert.

Sometime later, a group of young explorers found his remains. Marveled and confused by such a strange finding, they noticed that the grand skeleton held in his fossilized structures of his curious hands, still protected though now petrified, a strange roll of bark. Upon contact of a curious hand of one of the explorers, it opened like a release from an ancient spell. Inside, still intact was a scroll. Unrolled and upon reading its words, there was the invitational poem from the green and marine beings, to unite us all and conserve in all its beauty the planet earth, our home.

The young people, moved by this profound message of love, made a promise: they would take the poem and the message around the planet. In this way complying with the grand mission of the Whale Man.

Authored del cue to: Alfonso Arumbila (Esculator)

     Jesus Garcia

Taller iota: Poeta Laurie Acevedo

Traductora: Bernie Schmukor