Blogs from Culebra, Puerto Rico, Central America Caribbean

Take the ferry from the port of Fajardo to the island of Culebra in Puerto Rico. It's only $2.50. What a great deal! The trip takes between one to one and 1/2 hours depending on the wind and waves.... read more

Flamenco Beach on the island of Culebra deserves its reputation as one of the prettiest beaches in the Caribbean, if not the world. Located between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, it's like walking into paradise.... read more

The Christmas winds brought in some fabulous waves for bodysurfing on Flamenco Beach Dec. 14, 2009.... read more

Isla Culebra (IPA: ) (Snake Island) is an island-municipality of Puerto Rico originally called Isla Pasaje and Isla de San Ildefonso. It is located approximately 17 miles east of the Puerto Rican mainland, 12 miles west of St. Thomas and 9 miles north of Vieques. Culebra is spread over 5 wards and Culebra (Dewey) Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city). The island is also known as Isla Chiquita (Little Island) and Ultima Virgen (Last Virgin). Residents of the island are known as Culebrenses. These small islands are all classified as nature reserves and several nature reserves also exist on the main island. One of the oldest bird sanctuaries in United States territory was established in Culebra on February 27, 1909 by President Teddy Roosevelt. There are bird sanctuaries on many of ... read more

I hope you had a great Christmas and holiday and are now back at school raring to go for 2008. I travelled to Puerto Rico over Christmas. We visited the island of Culebra, also known as one of the ‘Spanish Virgin Islands’, for a bit of a break and to do some diving. Culebra is a tiny little place with only about 2000 residents. Everyone knows everyone so when we found ourselves without transport on Christmas day to go out for a slap up meal, a friendly taxi driver who was having the night off, agreed to leave his party just to ferry us to the restaurant and back. He then sat down and had a drink with us to celebrate the occasion! After a few days of sun on the beach, we headed up to ... read more

Since the rest of the vacation has begun to mesh together in my mind, I figured I would summarize it in one post: A few days before I left NY I checked the weather and was dismayed to see a 40% chance of rain each day for the entire trip. I told my mom expecting her to be equally upset, but she laughed at me. She told me that in the tropics there is always a 40% chance of rain but if it does rain it is usually only for a few minutes. True to her word, it didn't rain at all. Just one more reason not to trust the weather channel. We spent most of our time at the beach. I would have liked to have spent all of our time at Playa Flamenco, ... read more