BOQUERON

1630 hours, April 14th, 2015, Bahia de Boqueron, Puerto Rico: We entered the hugh Bay through a marked entrance in reef which extends across the mouth of the Bay. Boqueron is on the west side of Puerto Rico just north of the south west corner of the Island, Cabo Rojo. We had a day to kill. Chris Parker had advised us that the best day to start our 325 nm passage to Cockburn a Harbour on Caicos Island in the Turks and Caicos, was the April 16th, just in front of a north swell moving south. We had decided to spend it in Boqueron if we didn't need it on our passage from the Virgin Islands. 

A large public beach occupies most of the east end of the Bay. To the north of the beach is the town of Boqueron. There is a marina but no fuel. We had dinner at Icos Remos at the end if the dinghy dock in town. They had just what we had been looking for, Mexican type food, which we had not been able to find in the Caribbean. The food was tasty and the sunset spectacular. The no-see-ums were driving us nuts until a young lady at another table, seeing us try to fend them off, offered us some spray. We also had a stray cat, who would not take no for an answer, join us. 

The next day we moved a few miles north on the west side of the Island to the cove Puerto Real and it's Marina Pesquera. Here we filled our fuel tanks for $2.83 a gallon!  We had not seen fuel below $4.66 since we had last visited Marina Pesquera in December on our trip east. We anchored in the Bay and prepared for an early start the next morning on our long passage, while we watched another magnificent sunset. 

                                          Dinner Resturant

                                             Uninvited Guest

                                          Dinner View At Sunset

                                           Marina Pesquera

                                                   Sunset At Puerto Real