The Log of Tropical Dance Puerto Escondido to Hautulco, April 2008
By Daniel and Reylyn Yarussi
Puerto Escondido to Hautulco
Part 1, By Daniel Yarussi
We arrived in Puerto Escondido April 4th. after an overnight passage from Acapulco. Leaving Acapulco at 4 AM and arriving in Puerto Escondido the following morning a total of 175 miles. Coming into Puerto Escondido is an interesting experience. The anchorage is deep, approximately 70 feet and not very large as local pangas take up most of the room. We anchored outside the pangas on 200' of chain and 2 bow anchors at 45 deg. angles to minimize the swing.
Puerto Escondido is known by surfers as 'The Mexican Pipeline' and just 1/2 mile south of the anchorage could be seen 12' extremely fast curls with a few brave surfers from around the world. We cleared in with the Port Captain and Andy and I took a walk on the towns beach while Reylyn caught up on some needed sleep. 
Puerto Escondido is a very nice local resort community and the beach was filled with families enjoying the warm water. We stopped by a local restaurant having huevos rancheros and a couple of crevasses and headed back to the boat to relax on deck and swim for the rest of the day. That evening the three of us went back to town and had some dinner on the beach, headed back to the boat for a good nights sleep.
This page is the log and photos for SV Tropical Dance from Puerto Escondido to Hautulco Mexico near the southern border. (Mexico Sur) April 2008
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The 28 photos on the above photo page were taken during the trip south along the Southern Mexican Coast, April 2008.
Puerto Escondido
Puerto Angel Huatulco
April 08
The next morning Andy and I walked south to the surfing beach 1/2 mile from town. The surfing area is completely different from the town of Puerto Escondido boating many small resort hotels catering to the young surfing crowd. Beautiful spanish style hotels with lush grounds and 
swimming pools are lined up and down the inland side of the road while palapa restaurants beach umbrellas and lounge chairs line the ocean sand. Surfers watched their friends on the water sometimes oohing and aahing at the wipeouts and rides. Occasionally a surfer would come ashore with a broken board or stumble to shore exhausted by the power of the waves. Fortunately no one was seen injured while we were there. Andy pondered weather to rent a board and go out opting to just watch the action from a palapa restaurant, beer in hand. Later that day Reylyn, Andy and I had dinner on the beach, purchased some local goods and readied ourselves for the passage to Puerto Angel the next day.
The following morning we weighed anchor and headed out for the 35 miles to Puerto Angel. The passage was uneventful except for trying to find the harbor entrance. Puerto Angel is quite small and was difficult to spot. Eventually we found it and headed in anchoring in the little bay on the north side of town.
It was time for Andy to head home after his time on Tropical Dance so we lowered the dingy and headed to the Port Captains office handing in our papers for pick up the next day. I don't think Andy wanted to leave as we were having such a good
time, but all good things come to an end. We had our last palapa fish lunch and he headed off, bags in hand, to find a taxi for the ride to the bus station and the overnight ride back to Zihuatanejo and his flight home.
Reylyn and I stayed in Puerto Angel for one more day before heading south once again to the town of Hautulco, a passage of approximately 30 miles.
