Ignacio Springs Bed and Breakfast

I’m sitting under a date palm next to our Yurt that is called “The China Wall”. It is tastily decorated with Chinese things, has a giant king size bed, and 2 kimonos hanging in the bathroom. If I turn the other way I look out onto Ignacio Springs, it is early morning and the ducks, egrets, and herons are looking for their breakfast. Yesterday I took the kayak up to the beginning of the springs where the landscape turned into a forest of wild palms and thick reeds along the banks. This place smells really good; fresh and wild. It sounds nice too, palm leaves scraping against each other, reeds whispering along the bank. The ducks who are small and black with white beaks make a racket if I get to close, the egrets give me the eye ball, and the frogs serenade all day.

Mike just came out and asked me it any dates fell on my head. (We’re careful of coconuts but probably pretty safe with these dates.) We strolled along the banks of the lagoon to breakfast. This is the kind of place where you don’t need to comb your hair before breakfast or probably any other time. Breakfast is a family style event, all homemade down to the fresh squeezed juice, bread, jams, fruit, eggs, meat, what we call “farm to table” in Fort Collins. I think that’s a stupid phrase in Colorado but it seems to work here.

We had breakfast with a scientist who is studying the springs. This is an oasis and very much unaffected by the surrounding world during the last 8,000 years. It is an eco-system in itself. He is studying fresh water tilapia and bull frogs. The problem being that the government decided to introduce fresh water tilapia some years back and they are now 90% of the fish population, leaving only 10% of the natural species. I’m not sure what’s going on with the bull frogs but I don’t think they are supposed to be here either. This is a very kind and concerned man. We are lucky to have such folks looking out for us.