This sums it up. This is a business at the entrance to one of the main bumpy dirt roads to the playas fantasticos de Vieques.
Old San Juan
This one is for our own Tio Danny
Jen checks out La Perla, a dangerous slum kept outside the huge city wall. A slum with oceanfront real estate, hmm.
The lawn outside El Moro fort...
...is quite large
First you have to get by Jen, then the moat, then the wall.
Our art deco hotel in San Juan
with a tall lobby
where we watched the Tar Heels win a championship!
Off to Vieques on the ferry
It seems that in Puerto Rico when you ground a boat, you leave it. We saw this a lot.
The fancy part of Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Believe me, Fajardo has not so fancy parts.
Coming into the dock at Vieques
Isabella II, Vieques
We rented this Chevy Tracker with loose battery cables
and drove to our island home
which had views this like
Bird sounds for our nephew Henry
One very bumpy ride down a dirt road led us to Secret Beach / Plata Prieta. We didn't have a camera, so this pic is borrowed from http://www.davidkoretz.com/photos/05vieques_photos/05vieques4.JPG
Here's the main main street of the other town on Vieques, Esperanza.
Behind Jen is an island called Cayo de Afuera. We circumsnorkled it.
So this picture isn't us, but we did go here, kayaking and swimming in a bioluminescent bay at night. On a good night everything you touch turns this color blue. We went on a full moon night, the worst, but we still saw it. Very cool. Pic from http://www.biobay.com
A cheapo lunch place in Isabella II, not run by Abraham Lincoln as it turns out.
Navio Beach, Vieques. Again, we didn't have a camera, so picture borrowed from http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/1a/de/fe/navio-beach.jpg
Navio Beach, Vieques. Picture borrowed from http://photos.igougo.com/images/p154257-Vieques-Navio_Beach.jpg
Carole's casa in El Yunque rainforest where we rented a room
The outdoor kitchen where you listen to the coqui frogs
Listen to the coquie frogs
More coqui frog singing
Heliconia flowers. These things are huge and heavy.
It's like a jungle, sometimes it makes me wonder
El Yunque has steep creeks
More heliconia flowers
The water is very clear, which this picture barely shows.
Snail
This is Las Minas Falls. Do not try to go when all of Puerto Rico has the day off, like say on Good Friday .
Where is this tree from?
Narnia or Middle Earth?
Look at the size of this bamboo!
No, really, look at this bamboo. Want some of this for your backyard, David Cooley?
Juan Diego falls
La Coca Falls
