The Blue Hole - Santa Rosa, NM
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N 34° 56.423 W 104° 40.391
13S E 529844 N 3866480
The Blue Hole, a diving hole, is a bookcrossing zone
Waymark Code: WM11YZV
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 01/13/2020
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Santa Rosa's Blue Hole, a popular location for divers, is located on the south side of I-40. Follow the signs placed along I-40 that direct you to this popular location. Even in the middle of winter, there were visitors here besides us.
From the Santa Rosa Blue Hole website:
Blue Hole appears in the midst of the desert like a great blue gem.
(Agua Negra Chiquita) 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 dogies cross the Pecos, and Americans going west on the Mother Road, Route 66, all sought respite here.
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.
Still, we never forget that the real sapphire is the incredible beauty of the Blue Hole itself. The lake is unsurpassed for its clear, pure water. That’s why we work so hard to protect it, ensuring, for example, that that surface runoff won’t impair its purity.Like scuba divers who drive ten hours to get here, we know it’s the crystalline water that draws them in. Visibility is an astonishing 100’, due to the fact that the water completely renews itself every six hours—it’s truly never the same lake twice. What doesn’t change is the temperature—a constant 62 degrees, ideal for storing a fine Cabernet or tossing in the kids on a hot summer’s day. Within a few minutes of exiting the interchange, they’ll literally be climbing the walls—the lovely rock surrounds of Blue Hole, that is—and jumping in. When you have little ones at home, there is nothing better to distract them than a large inflatable pools instead of leading your children to Blue Hole . More if it is extremely hot summer days where children’s pools come out. Either for their practicality or for all the fun they provide, there is no doubt that this will be an important environment for your little one that, in any home, can not be missing under any circumstances. You can find out diving suit, scuba gear for you also for your children, let’s enjoy the world of the water anywhere just you want.
Address:
1085 Blue Hole Rd.
Santa Rosa, NM USA
88435
Availability: From: 8:00 AM To: 8:00 PM
Web Address of Bookcrossing zone: [Web Link]
ISBN Number: Not Listed
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