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The Roosters of San Blas
Counting the seconds between a bolt of lightning and the clap of thunder that follows is supposed to help calculate a storm’s distance. Using this same principle, I’m timing the frequency of the rooster’s crow.
Unlike millions of folks the world over, I am not sleeping, but pondering the meaning of this fruitless serenade. What is the message of the strident-voiced cock? His calling, if you will.
There he goes again!
Is there something sinister about his urgent appeal? A portent of global warming? The end of the world?
I’m a nocturnal creature, often awake past midnight, but rarely when dawn’s watercolor wash replaces the inky nighttime palette. I have only recently been introduced to the pre-dawn time slot---there are no roosters near my home in San Diego---so it’s only natural that the theories I generate at that hour are... Quixotic? Idiotic?
As I try to formulate a rooster-related hypothesis (or even better, a ‘DaVinci Code in San Blas’ sort of storyline), my nocturnal nemesis shrieks again. The interval between crows is 10 seconds, then 12, and then 15. I’m wondering if my computer-savvy friend Pat could write some sort of program. Is this an algorithm?
I wouldn’t know. My right brain has gone back to sleep.
Gallo Pinto crows again, and I startle awake in my dark bungalow. I count to 28, but now silence prevails. The little bugger must have gone to sleep.
Giving up notions of a Nobel Prize for Science, I abandon hope of solving one of the world’s great mysteries, and predict simply another sleepy day in San Blas.
Jane Onstott “wrote the book” on Mexico for the National Geographic Society in 2001; the second edition of National Geographic Traveler Mexico was published in 2006. She produced Fodor’s Puerto Vallarta for Random House in 2006 and has contributed to many other books over the years, including The Unofficial Guide to Mexico’s Best Beach Resorts, Best Places Baja, and Access Mexico, among other titles. Mexico Guru
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