The
Two RV Gypsies: Full-Time RVers
at Blue Hole Lake
1085 Blue Hole Road
Santa Rosa, New Mexico 88435
October 7, 2022 |
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On this date the Gate closed
at 5 p.m. |
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In 1932, Blue Hole became
a National Fish Hatchery, morphed into the Blue Hole Recreation
Area in the seventies, and more recently expanded to become the Blue
Hole Dive and Conference Center. Not just for drivers wanting to get
out of the fast lane or divers eager to get on down, it’s more than
just a watering hole. Now it’s a destination meeting site for everyone
from brides to board chairs. Halfway between Albuquerque and Amarillo,
it’s within two hours’ drive of 80 percent of all New Mexicans. |
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Blue Hole appears in the midst of the desert
like a great blue gem. Once known as Blue Lake, it is one of seven sister
lakes connected underground by a vast system of water. This wonder defines
Santa Rosa even as it seems to defy the surrounding red mesas. Born
of a geological phenomenon called the Santa Rosa sink, the place is
magic, as water always is in a land of little rain. Nomadic tribes,
cowboys driving their dogs cross the Pecos, and Americans going west
on the Mother Road, Route 66, all sought respite here. |
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The Blue Hole itself has such
natural beauty, although it was a cold, cloudy day when the two RV Gypsies
were here. The lake has clear, pure water, but incredible when the sun
is shining. |
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Below: Scuba divers at Blue Hole. Visibility
is amazing because the water completely renews itself every 6-hours.
The water temperature is a constant 62 degrees. |
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Below: Karen Duquette photographed someone
diving from the big rock and wished she had a bathing suit on. First
of all she did not know this was a swimming place before she got here,
and second of all, it was cold outside, and thirdly the water was very
cold, so all is just fine the way it is after all, no need to go back
to the RV and change. |
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Below: Then another person dived in from a lower platform
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