Abiquiú Lake Vacations Abiquiú NM
Abiquiu: The Hoot of the Owl
Sitting outside on our lakeside portal, overlooking #Abiquiu Lake and the million-year-old red cliffs, it feels fitting that an owl silently flies by above me. No doubt, the owl was tracking prey, in search of food. Fitting, because if you didn’t know, Abiquiu (pronounced A-bhi-kyoo, as in A as in Apple, Bi and in Big, and Quiu pronounced like the letter Q) gets its name from the Tewa Puebloan words “pay sha boo-oo”, meaning "timber-end town”, and “abechin”, meaning “the hoot