Snorkeling Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico
Rising swell place throughout the stage of 12 miles of Rincon, Puerto Rico and one uninhabited island. Our dive boat wave crests and again, make indigo hills with ease. We intend to dive off the coast of Desecheo Island, a wildlife sanctuary that was once home to smugglers and pirates, but now houses a piece of brown boobies, three species of lizards that are found nowhere else in the world, and a healthy population of rhesus monkeys introduced.
Unfortunately, the island itself is off limits. During World War 2, the U.S. used it as a military firing range and unexploded ordnance are now a threat to the safety of visitors.
Bridging the gap from Desecheo well change the tides and strong currents of the Mona Passage. When your shoulders are very strong in view, we drop anchor in twelve meters. I study the coast, where white water funnels through steep rocks and crashing into the earth. There is something seductive about the mystery of a remote control. I want to explore the wild hills. Do not get me wrong, I’m happy to explore the bay, but as I slipped into my computer and no giant platform diving, I’m focused on the small beach just minutes away.
The water closes over my head for a moment, I’m hanging at eye level with the fish, suspended between heaven and earth in a world without gravity. The visibility is over 80 feet and it’s a cloudy day. Queen Trigger fish floating near the boat, perhaps hoping to share our sandwiches. They wave their fins slim girls shaking her hair. After emptying my snorkel, I am facing a show for the first time in the water, watching a dance for tropical fish and allow the sun’s heat seeps into my body like rum in Puerto Rico. Pink and blue parrot fish on the sand and tango cha-sergeant stripes outgoing older limestone. A pair of butterfly fish sauce in a spiral cascade to salute.
That’s when I realize a barracuda with a look at me. Barracuda have a tendency to swim near the surface and if you focus too much on the bottom of the distant sea tend to lose their threatening presence. Mr Vintage teeth is a little out of arms reach. We see each other for a while, then films of its tail and disappears into nothingness.
I drift towards the beach. Instead submerged rocks below me and the waves crashing on reducing visibility to two or three feet bubble. Even if it was safe to get a foot on the island, to achieve this would be dangerous. I hoped at least near, but not today.
Resigned, I turned against the tide and return to the safety of deeper waters. Our guide is to call everyone back to the boat anyway. Maybe one day I set foot on the island of Desecheo. Meanwhile, I must say, diving off the coast is breathtaking. And I am happy that in my desire to explore the scope of something unattainable, I lost the game in hand wild.
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CONVENIENCE
Do not need a passport for U.S. citizens.
Puerto Rico is the U.S. dollar.
English is widely spoken, although Spanish is the traditional language of the region.
Puerto Rico, phone numbers can be dialed without an international code of phones in the United States.
coverage of U.S. cell phone is quite good, especially along the coast. No need to do anything more to use our mobile phone and since then we have a national plan, even though roaming!
HOW TO GET THERE
Fly to (BQN) Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla on the west side of Puerto Rico.
Desecheo is 13 miles off the coast of Rincon navigate in a small town at the western end of the island 20 minutes from the airport.
Taino Divers is the dive shop was officially admitted into the waters around Desecheo. You can snorkel, dive or try to find some sort of diving and diving with an instructor.
HOUSING
Corner offers everything from luxury apartments, hotels and private homes, you can rent.
WHERE TO EAT
You will find all of a Spanish style Tapas Bar Lazy Parrot famous Ron Shack, where every Wednesday is Reggae Night. We enjoyed eating and watching the surfers Tamboo Seaside Grill
THINGS TO DO
Visit the art gallery.
See Rincon eight miles of beaches, most of which are famous for big waves, especially in the winter months.
Take surfing lessons.
Learn to sail.
Go fishing at sea marlin, sailfish, swordfish, tuna, wahoo dorado, shark and all expect to tangle with you in the blue waters of the Caribbean side of Rincon.
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