Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!
I cannot believe it´s has been a month again since my last contribution to this series (that I actually planned to be a weekly series). Sorry about that. Today, however, I am coming with something really cool. Or maybe creepy. Some 3 years ago, on the very first day of the year 2019 ( if I remember correctly) I happened to witness one of the most fascinating but also frightening natural phenomena in my life.
Back then, we were living in a little coastal village called Telchac Puerto in rural Yucatan, Mexico. We were enjoying yet another beautiful sunny day in the tropical paradise when all of sudden, the entire sky got covered with what must have been millions or maybe even billions of locusts.
Close up shot of one of them. This one was already dead.
The swarm was so huge and powerful that all green plants, leaves of palms and other trees around our house were gone literally within minutes. After getting over the awe, I made myself to capture this video.
I know it doesn´t look that intense in the footage but it was impossible to do justice to the scale and intensity of this experience with my old phone. Later on, after talking to the locals, we found out that the locust swarms infest the area in certain, usually regular intervals of several years and that the swarm that we just got to see was one of the largest in many years. Definitely one of the most impressive demonstrations of power of nature I have seen so far.
Thanks for your attention and I will see you in the next episode of my Video Wednesday series :)
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