We used to think the ocean
\nWas indestructible
\nThis massive expanse of water
\nCould endure
\nAny amount of pollution
\nWe could throw at it
\nAnd still remain remarkably as pure<\/p>\n
As any body of water
\nCould now anywhere
\nWith its great size
\nAnd its volume seemingly
\nSuch dilution could take place
\nA homeopathic dosage base
\nIts insignificance really
\nWe could see<\/p>\n
Take Baja St Ignaccio Lagoon
\nIts where the greys
\nThe great whales
\nCome to have their calves
\nThe females love this phase
\nOf their lives in this sanctuary
\nWith its bottom of soft mud
\nAnd extra salty water
\nAnd an Oxygen rich flood<\/p>\n
Killer whales wont venture
\nBut jtheir babies can float well
\n16 miles long 4 miles wide
\n3 massive lagoons where the
\nCalves can hide
\nThey feel an obvious safeness
\nSecure and guaranteed
\nExperential knowledge
\nThat allows them to succeed<\/p>\n
Through a narrow sandy channel
\nInfused by incoming tide
\nWith squids and other fishes
\nWho swim in here to hide
\nIt clearly is a haven
\nA gentle place to be
\nAnd its where the whales
\nSeem happy
\nIn their sanctuary<\/p>\n
In Baja’s nursery Lagoons
\nThese ferocious grey whales
\nTake on a friendly character
\nThey breach and flip their tails
\nThey bring their new borns
\nOver and show them to those who
\nCome to whale watch every day
\nAnd even pet them too<\/p>\n
So back out in the ocean
\nEncounters of this kind
\nWill never ever happen
\nWhich is why it will blow your mind
\nTo experience the closeness
\nAnd the friendliness one feels
\nIts the mystery of these three lagoons
\nAnd what it reveals<\/p>\n
In May they make their long trip
\nBack to the Arctic all that way
\nReally the longest migration
\nSomething makes them stay
\nTo ponder and to give birth
\nTo relax apparently
\nBefore they begin their return trip back
\nTo the Bering sea<\/p>\n
Another creature that turns up
\nFrom time to time we see
\nThe black sea nettle
\nLarge swarms occasionally
\nA dark purple almost black bell
\nAnd tentacles so long
\nDevourers of zoo plankton
\nAnd said to be quite strong<\/p>\n
In october the great whites turn up
\nthe males and then females
\nWhy they come nobody knows
\nThere are many tales
\nIt could be for the elephant seals
\nBut nobody is sure
\nSharks are being slaughtered fast
\nFor them we are at war<\/p>\n
100 million killed each year
\nFor sport cosmetics and fins
\nFemales produce at 30
\nSo we are committing sins
\nKilling all these animals
\nEvery single year
\nTaking out the predators
\nIts very very clear<\/p>\n
Destruction of the ocean
\nIs our fault and we
\nAre ignorant as the day is long
\nAnd our arrogance will be such
\nCreating such Imbalances predator to prey
\nAnd we can watch the coral eaten
\nAll along the way<\/p>\n
The towering volcanic cliffs
\nSpring up to arches and again
\nThe diverse sea of Cortez
\nWhere 5000 species grain
\nIn ever flowing tidal currents
\nWhere the plankton flow
\nAnd hungry rays the Mobala
\nOr Devil Rays do show<\/p>\n
Sea lions they are everywhere
\nIn rocky coastal veins
\nThe Mobla are getting rarer
\nGill plates and fins
\nThe strains
\nof hunting
\nThem for China for medicine and soup
\nWatch the marlin and the sea lion
\nBagging sardines they swoop<\/p>\n
Into the great fish balls
\nThat swirl in currents they
\nDo better than if singly
\nBut are plunged into anyway
\n50’miles per hour and ten feet long they be
\nThe marlin with his sharpened sword
\nRushes painfully<\/p>\n
On the islands giant cardon cactus grow
\nAbd they can reach 60 feet
\nDespite the heat
\nAnd weigh 25 tons you know
\nWhen night falls the blossoms open
\nAnd a pungent odour flies
\nAttracts the Pallid bat
\nWho pollinates cacti’s<\/p>\n
Cormorants and pelicans
\nSwim underwater they
\nBoth dive given half the chance
\nIn the Pacific both hold sway
\nSardines and anchovies
\nAnd the herring too can be
\nReally full on shoals of them
\nSo good nutritionally<\/p>\n
Sea mounts there are many
\nMassive heights they be
\nProviding habitation
\nAnd big Manta’s we
\nSee them flying fhrough the oceans
\nWith their massive brain
\nNo fish can live up to them
\nThey have so much to gain<\/p>\n
They can see themselves in mirrors
\nAnd change colour when the need
\nTheir problem now is sxisting
\nJust trying to succeed
\nGill plates and fins
\nAre startlingly
\nCausing these souls to be
\nSlaughtered out the water
\nExtinction has to be<\/p>\n
Very much now on the cards
\nFor their pups are very few
\nA Fast track to extinction
\nIts now what they do<\/p>\n
Galapagos the islands
\nAnd out into the sea
\nSea going lizards the iganas
\nWhere they choose to be
\nThe water around the islands
\nIs cold in fact so they
\nHave ten minutes of hunting
\nAnd then spend the rest of the day<\/p>\n
Sunning themselves upon the rocks
\nWith the tortoises and we
\nSee whale sharks hump back whales
\nAnd turtles and hammer heads
\nAll be
\nUse echo location feeding mostly at night
\nOn the squids that come up from the darkness
\nTo bathe in the moon light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We used to think the ocean Was indestructible This massive expanse of water Could endure Any amount of pollution We could throw at it And still remain remarkably as pure As any body of water Could now anywhere With its … Continue reading