While travelling in the south of Brasil we stayed for a few days in a small town called Gramado. While there we explored the area and on one tourist map I spotted a waterfall in the middle of this town which for some reason I really wanted to investigate. So, Cris (my then wife) and I set off one day to find this place. It turned out that the map was typical of Brazil and only vaguely related to reality and so was not in the place marked - even so we do eventually get there.

For a place in the middle of a town it was very pleasant and we sit for a while just feeling the place. During this time Cris noticed discarded bunches of flowers in the stream below the waterfall and made a comment about it being a place that people came to invoke and work with nature spirits. Which was a little puzzling as we could not find any until eventually we noticed them well away from where we were (as far away from us as possible really). After a while the water spirit member of this group (also dwarfs and gnomes) gets curious and comes closer and we start talking to her.

It turns out that all of them were VERY wary of humans because they were being regularly invoked by some of the locals as part of love spells and attraction rituals. This coupled with the fact that the water here was polluted and the area not exactly in a good state then doing this was actually making the nature spirits ill in our terms as they were giving their energies to do this; leaving less and less for themselves. It is understandable then that they wanted as little as possible to do with humans.

We asked why they had not moved away - to find a new home and they explained that the tarmac road running over the stream above and below the waterfall effectively cut this place off and made it very difficult for them to leave. They also said that they were frightened of leaving this place as they did not know anywhere else to go.

During this chat the other nature spirits had been drifting over as they were curious as to how involved the water spirit was with us so we ended up talking to them all and we asked them if they would like us to find somewhere for them to move to. We explained that we could open a dimensional portal and move them directly from here that they did not have to travel in real terms. As in their terms humans had always abused them they could not quite get their head around humans helping them, or even having the ability to do what we said. So, we explained that we were very friendly with nature spirits, that the land we had owned had many nature spirits there whom we had invited to stay with us and that recently we have moved these friends to somewhere better since we left.

So, still sceptical of us Cris said that she would come and talk to them that night in her energy body and so reassure them that we knew what we were doing and could really help them. We told them that we would be staying in this area for 2 weeks and that we would find somewhere for them to move to before we left. That we could open a portal and they could check out the new place before deciding.

So, within a few days we have moved to the next town (only 4 miles away). From here we visit a local nature reserve within which we find this:

And we cannot resist. so we make our way down the stair way that leads to the bottom and from the closest platform above the waterfall I sit and open a portal - sort of half giggling as I do this because I just know that the nature spirits are just not going to believe what we have found. So, we do open a portal right next to the base of the fall linking to their waterfall and then I go and invite the water spirit to have a look. As she steps through I notice that they are all ‘packed’ that they are waiting to leave. Very quickly they have all moved through the portal to have a look at what the water spirit is talking about and yep - they just cannot believe it.

While they are moving their stuff through. I notice that they some of them are pensive / sad and I realise that they are thinking about another nature spirit friend whom did cross the road and never returned. They are missing him.

So, you have to get your head around this. While sitting on a wooden seat overlooking this huge waterfall I am also internally ranging down their river about 15 miles away looking for their friend. I do actually find him and bring him through too.

It is a magic moment to feel and ’see’ their joy and amazement at their new home. We leave them leaping about unable to contain themselves. So, a new home for a water spirit and some gnomes and dwarfs is found.

This nature reserve for safety reasons doesn’t allow anyone closer than about 150 meters from the base of the waterfall so we know that they will be undisturbed by people and also they have miles of open river below to explore.