Ricardo's Blog

I left Loreto on tuesday to get to Mexico City.  My flight was an early AM flight, so I had to leave the Inn at Lorety Bay hotel early.  As in many quick trips from Brasil to either Mexico or the US, I am still operating under Brasil time zone a few days into the visit.  In tuesday morning then, I woke up at 4 AM local time (it was already 7 AM in Brasil).  I realized and went back to sleep.  However, less than a couple of hours later I woke up to the alarm in my cell phone and quickly went to my check out routine. I had agreed with a collague to meet at the lobby to leave to the airport at 7 AM.

So I rushed through taking a bath, fixing my bag and went to the lobby.  I thought it was already a bit past 7 and I was worried since the timing was calculated a bit tight, since the airport is not that far from the hotel.  So when I arrived to the lobby and saw that the other person that was upposed to meet me at 7 AM was not there.  I asked the person on the hotel to allow me to use a phone and I called my colleague.  When he responded he still had a sleepy voice and told me it was 6 AM and not 7AM as I thought.  No need to depart for at least one more hour.  To make my awkard situation even worse, the person at the hotel desk told me the airport was not even open at that time.

I apologized profusely to my colleague and to the person at the desk.  As I turned my vision to the pool and beach area I quickly saw a familiar scene.  It was a bit before sunrise.  And judging by the clouds it was promising to be a spectacular sunrise indeed.  I quickly forgot what happened and instantaneously knew what I was going to do with the hour I had won.  I shot pictures of that gorgeous Loreto sunrise.  It turned out to be one of the most beautiful sunrises I have seen in my life.  A weird mistake had in a moment turned into a wonderful opportunity. 

Here is the first photo I published from that day.  There are many more gorgeous photos of that day and I plan to publish them little by little to flickr.  Click on the photo to see its flickr page.

This Loreto sunrise has all.  From amny different types of clouds showing interesting tones of pink, purple and orange to mountains, rock, flying birds and even a boat.