Bubba
Sep 15, 2003, 3:09 PM
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So, anyway, Bubba is doing his usual walk upon the ever changing shores of Lake Chapala in (he thinks) thoughtful solitude when he happens upon an ancient campesino who is not lost in thought in the least but in need of getting home after an arduous day rounding up livestock and monitoring fields flooded by seasonal rains and Bubba and this venerable farmer strike up a conversation.
Bubba is, of course, pleased in his superficial fashion, that the lake is refilling but has no clue as to where this phenomenen is leading us at its culmination. So, Bubba asks this farmer, who has seen countless seasonal variations in the lake's fortunes over many decades, what we can expect to see occur by the end of the season in which the lake receives a net inflow of water. Of course, this is not precisely the way Bubba put it nor the way the farmer responded but you get my drift. This fine gentleman, a most amiable sort, informed me that, in his opinion, the lake level would probably climb significantly up to an area adjacent to the Hotel La Joya Del Lago until about mid-November - especially if the river were allowed to feed the lake in an unimpeded fashion until then.
These are not my words. I am simply reporting an insignificant encounter on an isolated beach on a dying lake .
I know I promised my detractors that I would no longer post here but this is way too much fun not to share with those of you with a sense of balance and a respect for the Mexican culture.
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