...called Vieques!
1-12-11 (Happy 3rd Birthday Princess Maya!)
We could see her mounds of rolling terrain long before reaching her official territorial line. There she was, Vieques- the southern most of the outlying islands of Puerto Rico, an island group known as the Spanish Virgins. Our first impression was that we were looking at the island with part of the Dominican Republic or Mona Island in the background. We realized this was not so as we surfed along the waves nearing Vieques. From our vantage point, her northern coast looked totally undeveloped and had a mix of rocky cliffs and expansive beaches. We rounded her eastern point and noticed the warning signs posted by the US Military all along the south eastern half of Vieques. With GPS in hand, we maneuvered through the unfamiliar bay and nestled for the night in the shallows of Ensenada Honda.
1-13-11
Just around the next point westward, we stopped to snorkel the reef on the lee shore of Isla de Chivas. There was also a lovely beach along the bay with some sun shelters available for the few couples we saw. Farther down the coast we passed Puerto Ferro and Puerto Mosquito. Both of these inlets are narrow and shallow and the waves have carved out caves in their rocky entrances. Puerto Mosquito is known for its bioluminescence. Esperanza, the sole settlement on the islands southern shore, was quaint with many choices of small restaurants and gift shops, but not much in cell or internet dependability. For the record, I called Customs twice to clear in to Vieques and lost both connections. So customs has all the information on Exit Strategy and Captain Dan, but nothing on me, so far. (I’ll call if I need bail money and they let me use one of the police land lines.)
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