Yeah, they called him Blase de Portola before that.
It’s like the old story about Lake Elsinore being named for the reply of the Spanish soldier who was sent to taste the water. Or the state motto, Eureka, supposedly the first word from explorers when they saw the state. I’m still looking for a community called, Oh Damn We’re Lost, California. I figure it’d be somewhere between San Bernardino and Needles.
LOL!