Puerto Escondido, Honduras

Friday, June 21, 2002

015-54.600 N
087-37.800 W

Just a quick report to update our position. Today we left at 07:30 on our way to Puerto Escondido, which much to my surprise wasn't a real port. It's a beautiful bay with no inhabitants. Every other place that I've been in that's named "Puerto" was an actual port. Instead it's part of a peninsula that's a marine preserve. The peninsula consists of 3 bays which have increasing protection. We're in the 2nd, which provides easy access in and out, which is good as we'll be leaving tomorrow at sunrise.

The northern end of the bay is steep hills covered by palm trees. According to one guide book, it's inhabited by howler monkeys. We haven't seen any yet, but the night may prove different. The other end is low white sand beaches. Quite impressive to look at.

The ride here was quick. We had 15-20 kts dead on the stern, which is my least favorite point of sail as the 3-5' seas that we had kept pushing us around threatening to jibe us. We covered the 50 miles in about 7 hours. As we were leaving the boom vang steel cable shredded, but luckily I had a spare. It's amazing how many spares cruising boats carry...

Anyhow, tomorrow it's on to Guatemala and then into the Rio Dulce. It's a 60 mile cruise, so I'm off to bed. Night! BlueJacket
Log ID: 260