SCUBA Diving At Crash Boat Beach, PR

Spent most of Tuesday, 11 Jan 2011, SCUBA diving at Crash Boat Beach on the northwestern coast of Puerto Rico. The dive is a nice beach dive in settled weather. The interesting part for divers are the five separate portions of an old wharf used during WWII. The numerous pilings that support each portion are heavily crusted with coral and hundreds of fish hang out around the pilings. One section has collapsed and it has the best wildlife living there, to include spotted eels. One turtle kept hanging around and Aaron saw a Manta Ray.

SCUBA Diving at La Parguera, Puerto Rico

On Friday, 8 Jan 2011, six of us: Mike, Elizabeth, Aaron, Mark, Maura, and myself went diving off the wall 6 miles offshore of La Parguera on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The first dive was to a shelf about 60 feet down, then over the edge of a wall to a max depth of 120 feet, where we swam east to a swim-through that lead us back up to the shelf. Visibility was about 80 feet and the water temperature was about 85 degrees. The second dive was further west along the shelf and we swam along a trench called The Chimney at a depth of about 70 feet. At one point I counted 23 barracuda circling close by while I was hovering over a giant green Moray eel looking out of a hole in the coral. Surrounded by curious predators.

Boqueron Sunset

The small community of Gringos in Boqueron, PR, tends to gather nightly at the town dinghy dock to watch the sunset. Dollar beers and shared confusion over the celebratory antics of local Puerto Ricans provide come common bonds. Here are a few photos from last night's gathering.