The Small Town Of Celestun

Flying Flamingos!

We stayed in Celestun for three nights and four days. While we were there we visited the beach a lot, which is covered with big shells along the ocean. We also went on a boat ride to see pink flamingos. On the ride to see the flamingos we saw lots of other birds in the water as well like a black eagle and some white pelicans. We saw a couple of patches of flamingos in the ocean and kept going to see mangroves.


There were mangroves along a big fresh water called Ria Celestun. It was really weird entering the fresh water river from the ocean because they didn't mix with each other so there was a line of white where they met. The river didn't look very fresh I thought because it was really orange and there was a lot of trash sadly. It was really shallow in the river so our boat got stuck a couple of times. We saw a man fishing for, what we thought was shrimp, by just walking on the muddy river bottom with a big bucket. When we got to the mangroves there was a crocodile hiding under a ton of mud in a creak connecting two swimming holes. On our way back we were going against the wind so we got a lot of air going of the waves and it was scary at first then got fun. There were a couple of times when I thought the bottom of the boat would break. I really enjoyed staying in Celestun and visiting the flamingos.

Can you see the crocodile?

Coming out of a mangrove tunnel