A Danger to our Ocean

The other night I had an interesting dream. I have this bindrune that came to me in a dream once, and that night I fell asleep with a question about it. Well the ancestors, the spirits, answered that question, they even sent me a message that I didn’t fully understand until today. The dream started out with a sinking room in the ocean, I was rescuing someone. I had to attach them to my vest and swim to a facility nearby, it was the closest safe place I could spot, the waters were getting rough. To enter the facility I had to dive down for a minute with the person still attached to me. It was a small entrance, just big enough for both of us to fit through. We resurfaced and before I knew it people were rushing to get us out of the water quickly. It was some sort of lab in the middle of the ocean, studying and experimenting on orcas. They got us out very quickly, the woman said we were lucky the orcas hadn’t noticed us, if they had, avoiding direct eye contact was recommended for safety reasons. I looked down into the water feeling sorry for the orcas. Something happened though, I fell into the water, two orcas immediately swam in front of me blocking my way back up. I was scared but calm, I remembered the whole ‘don’t make direct eye contact’ bit but I couldn’t help but stare at them, such beautiful creatures. I then decided the best course of action was to make a swim for it to the center platform, and small square I am sure they could slide onto if they had wanted. I managed to get to it and pulled myself up onto it, I rolled over and closed my eyes out of exhaustion. When I open them again, I am suddenly in a raging storm, swimming to stay on the surface. I ride a monstrous wave towards land, it crashes through, destruction in its wake, and I manage to grab onto something as the water slowly goes back out to sea. I was finally on land and had survived. Now the whales were the answer to my question as well as part of a bigger message, along with the raging ocean. I learned today that marine sanctuaries are now in danger of commercial fishery thanks to the Trump administration. Granted that’s fairly old news but I hadn’t heard about this or seen anything about it until today. It saddened me that it is not being talked about more. What they are doing poses a threat to our environment, to the marine life. If we overfish, or diminish species that are already at risk and destroy the ecosystem of the ocean, we lose our ecosystem here on land. The oceans ecosystem plays a major role in ours and in keeping this planet alive and well. Now as for the bindrune question, I had a bindrune appear in a dream once of Inguz, Ansuz, and Tiwaz or Laguz, now I know thanks to the dream it is both, Tiwaz and Laguz. To me, orcas can represent both Tiwaz and Laguz, they share some attributes to them, strength, courage, emotional depth, intuitiveness with hunting and family. They are incredible creatures to say the least. Well I hope you enjoyed the read, thank you for your time and for stopping by. Below are some links where you can read about the situation of the sanctuaries as well as a link to lyrics I wrote inspired by the dream. I used an AI music app yes(with AI voice because it won’t use mine, it alters it), but only as a means to put music to them and show their potential as a song. Once again thank you for stopping by, may the spirits guide you.

-Written by Cortney C.

https://suno.com/s/2shWQDRdpIiZQ4ba

https://earthjustice.org/feature/pacific-islands-heritage-marine-national-monument

Marine National Monuments & Marine Sanctuaries
‘Wrong Move at the Wrong Time’: Trump’s Pacific Monument Fishing Reversal Raises Alarm For Biodiversity and Island Nations 

Horseshoe Crab Monitoring

We volunteered to do horseshoe crab monitoring through Save Coastal Wildlife (https://www.savecoastalwildlife.org). All we can say is “Wow! what a blast!”

We showed up prepared to be in the water. We had waders because it was recommended, It wasn’t necessary though, we soon realized there was only one other person wearing them. It was a hot day and on a hot day you get quite hot in the waders.

Since we were ready for water we got the duty of going in the water and finding the horseshoe crabs. We had so much fun shuffling through the water in search of them. We shuffle with our feet so we can avoid stepping on any of them, it also allows you to feel the ones that burrow into the sand. It was important we only pick up the ones swimming along solo, singles, and to leave any pairs or clusters alone. For clusters we had to feel around to try and count how many there were, the water was murky so you couldn’t see them, feeling around was the only way to count a cluster. We found many single males, a few pairs and a few clusters. Some of the single males were extra feisty, they’d try and grab you or get you with their tail. It was really quite an awesome experience and super cool to see these amazing creatures up close and personal, I mean they’re basically living fossils, what’s not cool about that?

If you yourself would like to volunteer we’ve provided a link to their website in the top line of our story. Check it out, they do a whole lot more than just horseshoe crab monitoring.

Enjoy this slide show of our adventure with Save Coastal Wildlife… you can also catch our discussion about our experience on our YouTube channel.

  • tagging for monitoring
  • we had so much fun!

We look forward to our next adventure to do our part for conservation, maybe we’ll see you there. Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read this blog, showing us support, and please do check out their website, they do a lot of amazing stuff.