Medanos de Coro, beaches without the sea

For: Daniel Landa

The cacti announced a desperate thirst just one step from the Caribbean. Next to the place where tourists bathe their dreams, nature meets the winds of the sea to form one of the most absurd orographies of Venezuela. It is a tongue of sand that does not reach the coast, that runs out of beaches, a miniature desert, where coconut trees are supposed to rule.

In the dunes of Coro there is nothing because the dunes tyrannize the landscape, absorb it or bury it.

We arrived as I suppose they all arrive in the Caribbean desert: misplaced, not knowing how to cover the loneliness of sand. We had imagined the turquoise blue of the waves or the bright green of the tangle of trees, but not, there was only a leaden walk in the happy tropical sun.

This landscape comes out silly, near the city of Coro, one of those colonial places that shows all the colors on the facades.

We decided to record the dunes as the sea is recorded, pointing loneliness, looking for frames that look the same.

We decided to record the dunes as the sea is recorded, pointing loneliness, looking for frames that look the same. We climbed dunes with the camera equipment and we had the idea of ​​mounting the crane to sublimate nothing. The crane is a gadget of aluminum tubes, cables and a few weights that had to be moved to the sand ridges. So we wanted to fly low over the dunes.

The camera soared through the desert because everything seems lighter from the air, but the truth is that we were choked with the audacity in our throats. Shooting on the sand is the least fun a camera can handle. Tripod weighs more with shoes full of sand, dust covers the lens, there are no shadows to shelter or transport possible. Addition, often happens, we forgot to buy water and we had to swallow a day of plans to palo seco.

It is not the most beautiful desert in the world and of course its size does not impress, but the Coro dunes have a fundamental advantage. A few kilometers, one can shake off the sand in the crystal waters of the Morrocoy Keys.

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