Jacob's Well Texas

  ”Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.”

 Albert Camus (1913-1960). French novelist, essayist and dramatist.

 

If you usually daydream about landscapes to relax and forget the routine for a minute, and you love water like me, then this is the perfect place to feel absolutely free.

Jacob’s Well is the largest water spring in Texas Hill Country. It flows from the most extensive underwater cave in a few miles north of Wimberley. It descends vertically for about ten meters, ultimately reaching a depth of forty meters at an angle as a series of chambers separated by narrow corridors. Jacob's Well has the notoriety of being one of the most dangerous underwater caves for scuba divers.

You don’t have to be the bravest to visit this shocking wonder and enjoy the miracles of nature. 

 Raquel Mesa

 Killer Whales?

When I was a child, I used to say to everybody that one day I would become a marine biologist to study orcas.

I developed a passionate interest in this amazing animal drawing it all the time, up to the point of thinking about tattooing it in my body when I was older. Not only watching “Free Willy”, but also researching about it watching also documentaries and reading. I was convinced of, at least, one day I would travel to Vancouver Island to see how orcas scratch their back on the little stones near the shore, or how their groups live in family or maybe to listen to their voices that sound like music.

Some years have passed by, but I still have this dream to see wich I consider one of the most beautiful animals on earth.

Actually, I have this dream many nights as my particular obssesion. And some people want it to become a nightmare when I hear them saying “Killer whale”. A killer is someone who amuse killing. In fact, scientists are considering this behaviour in orcas when they hunt. But not even they know if an orca enjoys playing with its prey. For that reason, we can’t label orcas as killers, and if we do it, then we are killers too because there are humans that enjoy killing other animals just to put them on the wall. It seems hypocrisy to me.

For all these reasons, I would recommend visiting them in Vancover Island where you can rent a kayak in a fully equipped base camp with flexible itinerary and food among other interesting options.

I hope someday we’ll see each other reflecting in these terms in situ.

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

By Raquel Mesa.