We are cruising along the picturesque Oaxaca (wa-HAKA) coast, making about 8k on flat blue seas toward Huatulco. Having left Acapulco on Saturday, we weren’t sure of making it to Huatulco by dusk Sunday, so we ducked back to Puerto Angel for the night. Actually, we have no clue what time it is, what time the sun rises or sets ... we are traveling east so much we are crossing time zones and every day it is different. So – unaware of the times for sunrise/sunset/tides – Puerto Angel seemed the prudent destination. And it was gorgeous! A compact little harbor with rugged headlands on either side, and a stretch of palapa-peppered main beach that curves from north to southeast, connected to the beach in the northwest corner by a stone malecon carved out of the cliffs. I wish we’d had more time and been able to go ashore ... alas at the crack of dawn we were underway again.
Along the way we were dodging sea turtles by the hundreds. The beaches of Oaxaca are prime nesting grounds for turtles and they appear to ‘stand by for breeding’ in the waters off the sandy shore. Their shiny wet backs glisten in the sun, so they are easy to see – bobbing in the waves, creating a slalom course for FRC.
** Just arrived in Huatulco (29 NOV 1045HRS accd’g to the torture watch)! Glad we waited ‘til bright daylight ... the harbor entrance is hemmed by rocky reefs and the marina channel is narrow – with waves breaking against the foreboding cliff that holds the red beacon.
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