We Made It

Well, we have made it to our summertime destination: BLA.  Most cruisers who stay in the sea for the summer spend August and September up here because it’s far enough north that the chance of a tropical storm is pretty slim (although not impossible, we watch it closely) and there is a natural hurricane hole in the vicinity.  This summer the number of boats was in the low 20s, and here’s a listing of those I recall: Exodus, Lady Carolina, True Blue V, Sea Note, Interabang, Karma Seas, Odyssey, Entre Nous, Drifter, True Companion, Mai Tai Roa, Sara M, Lungta, Slipper, Take Five, Let it Go, Charra, Dazzler, Deja La, No Mas, Code Blue, Iver.  The next essay will shed a little light on the summertime adventures of this crowd.  There was also a small crowd who spent the summer down near Puerto Escondido.  It’s further south, but Puerto Escondido is about as good a hurricane harbor as it gets.  Through the radio nets we kept in contact with at least 3: Jake, Harmony (of Anacortes), and Apolima.  There were probably more since not everyone has an SSB radio and not everyone that does checks into the nets.  There are beautiful anchorages in the BLA area, and back in the spring someone made the comment that there’s really nothing further north in the sea past San Juanico worth seeing.  I’m thinking this was spoken by someone that was going home for the summer and had never ventured up to the rugged, less traveled, and beautiful area.