Ooh, it’s the smell of savory, slow-roasting cracklings dripping into the fire, a special seasoning deep inside the crispy skin. It’s the...

While perusing our local food stores you will no doubt come across unusual, discus-shaped tins or plastic packages of a local Puerto...

Let’s say while vacationing in Vieques, you went on a fishing charter and caught a good-looking snapper or grouper. A great way to show...

as much a part of the island as the sand and sea After arriving on Vieques your first encounter may very well be with a horse. Strolling...

“Coqui Girl to Peaches, do you copy? Movin’on to number 2.” “Copy that.” It was 8pm and we were on our first round of walking Playa...

Vieques is inundated with iguanas. You’ll see these light-green, dark-green, tan or even greyish lizards lounging in trees, ambling along...

Here’s a quick survey of the some of our most frequently encountered seaside flora. Sea Almond or Indian-Almond (Terminalia catappa)...

Scolopendra gigantean. Yep- giant centipedes. These creatures live in the warm and moist areas of the world, mainly in the South American...

It is five minutes to midnight on the eve of June 24, and hundreds of people line the shores of Vieques. It is La Noche de San Juan...

As a child the night before Three Kings’ Day, I went out into the field, clipped the greenest leaves of grass, put them inside a shoe...

The genus name for the coqui frog, Eleutherodactylis, translates from the Latinized Greek for “free toes” alluding to the fact the toes...

It’s an easy game to learn but a difficult one to master. If Vieques – as well as the rest of Puerto Rico – were to have a national...

To gaze upon it is to know. To float upon it is to see. No poet’s words will reveal its essence. No song’s melody will capture its...

Puerto Mosquito, Vieques’s bioluminescent bay, is considered by many to be one of the hidden wonders of the world. Not the Hollywood,...

be “in-the-know” Vacation. A journey into the unknown. A change of scenery to awaken the senses. You’ve checked your bags and your...

This is the perfect beach for the body surfer in you. Navio is not only a stunning beach, immortalized in the film Lord of the Flies, but...

A beguiling expanse of magnetic black sand against a dramatic cliff makes for a dreamy cove and a FREE spa!! Gently rub the sand on your...

You may not know it but the fruit of our ubiquitous sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera) is edible. The grapes hang in long, stiff clusters from...

Insider Tip To avoid having to wait at a restaurant or worse yet not get a table, please make reservations. Get Your Coupons! Get...

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of school-aged children stranded on a desert island after a plane crash....