Names, Identity, and Historical Importance Names, derived from cultural roots, historical events, family heritage, or spiritual beliefs...

One of the most charming creatures on Vieques is the Caribbean hermit crab, Coenobita clypeatus, also known as the soldier crab, the West...

The pleasantly acid-sweet flesh of the fruit of the quenepa tree, macerated for a spell in clear rum, is the quintessential ingredient in...

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...

Vieques boasts a beautiful oceanfront campsite on Sun Bay, a Puerto Rico National Park (Compañía De Parques Nacionales)  located on the...

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...