For years I have been alternally my city life to a more intimate in contact with nature. I often live on a sailing boat: there my house is the wind, my roof the stars, my comfort the silence that slips between the waves. It is in this suspended space that my thoughts and images are born.
But those who live the sea so closely cannot ignore the wound that mass tourism inflicts on them. There is talk of invaded mountains, Val Gardena and refuges transformed into noisy squares. But the sea is no different: he is also besieged, as the recent photos of the Maddalena archipelago have told. No longer only the crowded beaches, but the water itself is crossed, trampled, consumed.
La Maddalena besieged by boats
pics721Once upon a time on a boat meant accepting an essential life: Save water, settle for the dim light of a lamp, cool off with the only breeze of the night, divide a few meters of space. Today, however, the sea is inhabited by floating villas, equipped with all luxurywho browse just but claim to own the horizon.
The mountain at least requires an effort, a step uphill, or at least it should. The sea widened all its doors. And so, in the crowd that invades it, that natural selection that once belonged only to fans has once disappeared. Anyone who accesses you, often without any awareness or respect. The problem is not only the amount of tourists, but the absence of culture and education towards him, blindness towards his sacredness.
The example of La Maddalena’s archipelago is emblematic: A natural park reduced to an amusement park. No control, no selection of access. It could have been thought of intelligent limitations, such as the entrance reserved for ecological boats or with specific licenses, as happens in other reserves in the world. Instead the restrictions adopted were dictated by economic, non -ecological interests. Instead of respectful boats, millions of inflatable boats and boats without permits, abusive charter, polluting motorboats, boats that unload hundreds of people on the small fragile beaches for daily excursions.

There the illustration is by Anna Godeassi, the author of the piece. www.annagodeassi.it
Life on a sailing boat in the Mediterranean has lost its magic for those looking for harmony with nature. Not only because of the final tourist, but also for the absence of checks and for the complicity of those who should protect the sea and instead sells it. Charter companies and travel agencies offer fleet cruises with DJ sets and continuous parties, as if the sea was a branch of the Cocoricò or Ibiza. It is as if the CAI organized excursions on the Marmolada with a final rave party. Thus the sea is filled with music shot by the coffers, of underwater blue lights that light the night (and disturb the fish), of generators who buzz without stopping to feed air conditioners and dishwashers. But The sea is not a living room, neither a swimming pool nor a disco.
And above all, nobody tells him anymore. At sea no one remembers that there are rules, that there are silences, that there is a place for the party and a place for listening. I myself love to dance, but I know that the sea is not a track: it is an ancient breath. And instead today there are the “cafonauts“: who still two meters from you because so you park in the city, or almost on the beach, regardless of the regulatory distance and of common senseso with two strokes it is already on the ground, who throws the anchor on Posidonia – The lung of the sea – destroying it, those who occupy the whole bay with their flotilla as if it were a football field, those who download decibel on the waves in the name of the aperitif.
We forgot an elementary truth: It is not nature that belongs to man, but man to nature. We have lost the ability to listen to the rhythm of the places, to let ourselves be transformed by their soul. So only selfies and noise remain. And the sea, instead of being welcomed as a vital beat, is reduced to a frame.

Anna enjoyassi


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Source: Vanity Fair

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