We have posted this picture before and False Bluff is still in the same place. We're just a little bit farther from Bluefields than we are from the port of El Bluff, which is the main and very public gateway between Bluefields Bay and the Caribbean for a huge amount of traffic.
But we are fortunate enough to get to our place by way of a canal that we had hand-dug. Our canal gets us there from Smokey Lane Lagoon instead of from the Caribbean. Believe me, the small additional distance is well worth it.
The Caribbean is known for being calm but in a panga or something even smaller, the sea can kick up dangerous waves really fast. Of my trips to False Bluff by way of the Caribbean, I've been in boats several times that capsized...usually as we turned and headed to the beach.
Once is more than enough.
A neighbor to our north...about an hour by walking...decided to boat-haul materials to her property rather than land at False Bluff and walk the stuff up the beach. The boat she and her workers was in capsized. All the materials and the outboard motor were lost. Every person on the boat made it to shore safely but she later told me it was touch and go for her.
People pull their boats up to the beach because along our almost deserted section of coast, roughly the 26 miles from El Bluff north to Pearl Lagoon, there's no development of any kind - much less a place suitable for tying up a boat and so the boats are beached.
In order to avoid all future trips to False Bluff by way of the Caribbean just about the first thing we did was to have our canal dug from the lagoon to a place close...but not too close...to the beach. We didn't want an angry Caribbean to later dig its own canal...which would cause unbelieavable damage.
So we leave Bluefields, segue from the bay to the labrynth of back waters, into Smokey Lane Lagoon, and then into our canal. It goes from a narrow notch in the lagoon east toward the beach and we traverse it in quiet except when the monkeys pass overhead.
Easy peasy - though always better when the tide is high. Bluefields Bay, like the Chesapeake Bay, is tidal.
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Just posted today to a Bluefields news site about a life lost when a panga capsizes:
https://noticiasbluefields.com/blog/senora-perdio-la-vida-otra-esta-desaparecida-tras-volcarse-una-panga-esta-manana/