Puerto Rico

So we're in the Bahamas now, but I'm going to attempt to remember the highlights from Puerto Rico and then Turks and Caicos. The first thing we did when we reached the mainland of Puerto Rico is we rented a car and drove around with 2 main objectives. See the El Yunke rain forest and eat roast pig. The rain forest was cool, and we swam in an incredibly cold waterfall. Then we made way south to a town known for pig roasts. There were about twenty places that roast an entire pig, and then cut it up and serve it to you plain...and it was possibly the best pork I've had. You can see from the pictures what the entire pig looks like on the spit.
After that excursion, we sailed to the island of Vieques to pull into this little harbor which is phosphorescent. So at night, with no moon, we jumped in and every motion produced a trail of sparks in the water. It was impossible to photograph, but it was amazing and weird. When you climb out of the water, sparks just drizzle off your body, and we filled up jugs of the water and would pour them into the cockpit and all you could see was sparks falling and spreading everywhere on the cockpit floor...then flowing out the back to the drains.
We went back to the mainland after that and sailed along the southern part of Puerto Rico. The main highlights were mostly the people we met. The Puerto Ricans have been the friendliest...they've really gone out of their way to help us many times. We also met some wonderful cruisers who gave us a bunch of provisions because we were running out. The other highlight was the dolphins that swam with our boat for about 15 minutes, just turning their heads, smiling at us, and playing at the bow of the boat.
Puerto Rico ended with making our way finally to Mayaguez and dropping anchor just as Matts plane landed in San Juan. He then took a short flight to meet us in Mayaguez. Matt came down to help us sail the boat up to the Turks and Caicos since we decided to skip the DR because we were in a rush to get north of the Tropic of Cancer by July 1st as our insurance company specifies during hurricane season. I'll talk about the passage in the next section under Turks and Caicos.
In summary though, the people of Puerto Rico were wonderful to us, and the landscape was gorgeous. However, the harbors were never very pretty...usually just mangrove areas with silty brown water. But that's ok because then comes the Turks and Caicos!

Here are some pics of Puerto Rico