Dec 01 2008
El Nacimiento
Marci, Liz, & Me at El Nacimiento del Rio Sabinas, photo © Jim White
El Nacimiento means birth, but it’s also used to denote a spring where a river rises. There are a couple of nacimientos in the El Cielo area, but the one that is closest to my heart is that of the Rio Sabinas. It was one of the places I visited on my first birding trip to Mexico, nearly 20 years ago.
On that initial venture, I was with Tony Bennett and Will Carter. The birthplace of the Rio Sabinas was a little out of the way, but not too hard to find. We went, and Will badgered me into diving from a ledge into the seemingly bottomless blue green waters.
Things have changed, but not too much. The road’s a little worse, the trail more overgrown. It seemed like a lot more effort to reach the spot. But it was still beautiful, still looked well-preserved and unthreatened, and still lured hot, itchy birders to shed most of their clothes and dive in. I bypassed the ledge jump entirely, though.
Jim White held out for a while, photographing us as we swam. But I guess we seemed to be having too much fun, because he soon removed his prodigious layers of gear and joined us.
I’ll be blogging more about this Mexico trip in the coming days; hope you’ll join me for that, too. In the meantime, you can read a post Jim wrote about our trip on the brand new Delaware Nature Society blog.
¡Hasta pronto!
Great picture of you guys. MOST of your clothes? If I know you three, you shed ALL of your clothes!
No, Lisa, we’re all much more buttoned down when you’re not around–you’re the one that makes us go crazy!
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