Travel: Vieques, Puerto Rico

Pictures from our honeymoon in July 2011. This is the first time we went to Vieques, Puerto Rico. On the right is a picture of Isabelle from the ferry. Below is a picture of the street right after we got off the ferry.

To the right and below: Some pictures of our first day in Vieques. We are in Esperanza - our favorite side of the island to stay on! So anyway, here I am cheesing in front of the ocean. Below is my husband (not cheesing) in front of the ocean.

To the right is a little island right off the coast of Vieques. It's a great place to snorkel. Just to the right of this little island and under the water are these extremely round boulders bigger than cars. If only we had our underwater camera when we went!

And below: my favorite picture of the two of us. Taken from the same spot as the pictures above. I mean...it has only been my facebook picture for over a year now.

On the right: I think this was our first time eating at Belly Buttons. For breakfast we had a giant icecream and cookie sandwich.

Right off the strip in Esperanza. It was a bunch of broken, dead coral. The two large ones by my feet are brain coral.

Beach road that connects Sombe (Sun Bay) to the beach in the pictures above.

Below: My new husband looking cranky because I wanted to jump around and take pictures.

I think this may have been the first time we encountered the "wild" horses. Vieques has way too many horses. The owners don't have enough land/resources to keep them SO they brand them, let them roam freely, and go out and find them when they need them. It's a nice to see horses almost everywhere you go but it's sad when you see some that are just skin and bones.

A view of the street that we stayed on. We were about a block from the beach. We thought that since we were so young (I had just turned 21 and he was soon to be 24) we couldn't rent a car. Little did we know at the time - you can always rent a car in Vieques. BUT not having a car made this first trip even more fun. We had to walk to get to a lot of the places, it forced us to rent a scooter, and we spent most of our time in Esperanza, which is really where we wanted to be anyway.

We're on a boat about to go snorkeling. This couple owned their own boat and took people out to spots off of Sun Bay and to the boulder rocks I mentioned before. They also made us some great lunch! They told us about how they had lived on their boat while they built their house on the island. Later that year or the next they sold their business to some young guys.

Vieqeus from the boat.

Our feet - before Timmy's lets were covered in tattoos.

Once we rented our scooter we decided that we wanted to see some of the rest of the island. This is a view from the middle of the island. On this little adventure we almost died due to extremely large pot holes in every 3 feet.

And now....a bunch of pictures of a really old cool tree in Vieques.

I think this is a favorite!

Burned out ship?? We couldn't figure it out.

While on our scooters it started to pour. We had no where to pull over and take cover. We were soaked!

These are our sad "We're wet" faces.

At Bili. Best chicken quesadilla I have ever had! But...Bili has the best everything I have ever had.

Baby lizard that lived on the porch.

Our "kayak adventure". We rented a kayak for a day. We decided that we would take the kayak from Navio to some caves. We ended up on a beach that was only accessible by kayak where we found some huge sea glass. We also ended up on a beach below a lighthouse - also only accessible by water. We climbed up the side of some rocks and went through some thick bushes to get to the lighthouse. The doors had been filled with cement to keep people out but the back door had a hole busted in it. We went inside only to find graffiti and rubble. Toward the front of the light house was a spiral staircase. Front the bottom of the staircase we could hear what sounded like thousands of bees. Later we found out that going to the lighthouse is illegal.