On the second day in the Yucatán, we set off to the tranquil fishing village of Chuburná located roughly 40 minutes south of Mérida near the town of Progreso, the Yucatán’s main port and the launching off point to the stunning yet relatively unknown Isla Columpios.This rich mangrove ecosystem and group of small islands and sand banks on the coast were formed as a consequence of the devastation of Hurricane Gilberto in 1986. The hurricane wiped out all the infrastructure and it took the ...
