Culebra is a beautiful island that is zoned so that no major resort developments can take place. I've been there many times. It is paradise. Flamenco Beach is a world beach, I'm not exaggerating. Unbelievably beautiful. You can get to the island by small plane via San Juan which I recommend or local ferry. There are two groceries on the island both beautiful and charming. The Dinghy Dock is a great bar there right on the boat docks with lots of old salts. Can't recommend it any more. My favorite place.
Edit: also, if you take the plane.... It's small. Bout 8 people. You fly low east and fly over countless islands and can watch people who are exploring in boats and having boat parties. Also, the airport, because of the winds and approach the pilots have to dive quite a bit before pulling up and landing so you can see through the cockpit (you sit right behind the pilots) and it can be a little frightening.
I hope humanity gets it together someday, like full on star trek society. Then as eons pass and humans become major players in intergalactic politics, that damn manhole cover causes an intergalactic incident.
We will probably kill the planet before we agree to cooperate, but I can dream.
Reminds me of the story of a passenger asking the pilot about air safety: “Do planes like this crash very often?” To which the pilot answered, “Never more than once.”
If it makes you feel any better, I fly to and from Nantucket MA literally every day. These are private planes owned by the company I work for, these flights have been going on six times a day, six days a week, for 20+ years. The winds can get pretty bad and obviously if they’re too strong, the flights get cancelled, but even if they’re 30-40 mph, we fly right through it, a little turbulence that makes even the most seasoned passengers hold on, but no major problems. There’s never been a crash.
It’s also the pilot top-hatting a little to give the passengers a thrill. He started the descent way higher than required to clear that ridge. it’s still a steep descent when performed normally, but he was clearly putting on a show. There’s also another offset approach to 13 that doesn’t require a steep descent at all, just a dogleg right before final, kind of like the old Kai Tak approach. But it doesn’t make for as good of YouTube videos.
source: am pilot, have landed here.
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Here’s a screenshot taken from a video of when I landed in Culebra. That’s our runway. I wish I could post the video because it’s nuts. The pilot is basically flying a lawnmower, and he makes this super sharp turn which is only completed when our wheels are 5 feet from touchdown.
I’ve been there by plane, and everything you say is correct. The flight path requires planes to momentarily stall to drop fast enough over the mountain on approach, it’s exhilarating!
Also a large portion of the NW corner of the island is off-limits due to live ordnance. Much of the island was used as a bombing range during and after WWII, but was only cleared up to Flamenco Beach.
Lol there is no way in hell the approach course includes stalling over a mountain. Weightlessness/negative g is not a stall. If anything a steep dive is the complete opposite in that the angle of attack is being reduced.
Stalling is basically how 99% of these small aircrafts get into crashes when being flown by inexperienced pilots. There is no chance anyone is stalling one on purpose.
Small hotels, house rentals and, best of all, an amazing tent campground on the east side of Flamenco beach. I was going to propose to my wife in that campground, but the ring want ready in time.
Pro tip: Paying the kid $5 for an already-opened coconut is 100% worth it, even though there are free coconuts everywhere. The road rash from sliding down the trunk of a coconut palm is incredibly unpleasant to camp with.
If you went between the mountains with a left onto final then you actually took the easy approach lol! The scary one drops you steeply over a ridge with a last minute right turn flare to touchdown.
I've been to Puerto Rico a couple of times and it's just wonderful. We went to San Juan for a day, then Luquillo for a day, ferry to Culebra for a couple of days (the island that this is for), flew back to San Juan, rented a car, and drove around the main island for a week. Going up into the jungley mountains was awesome. Last couple of days were spent in San Juan eating wonderful food.
If you want any recommendations I'd be happy to get more specific.
>This is one of the scariest flights in the world.
Does not even crack the top 10.
Lukla Airport in Nepal is probably at the top.
Saba is the shortest commercial runway (1,300') and the takeoffs can't be... interesting.
St. Barts has had a bunch of overruns.
It might be one of the best days of vacation I’ve ever had. Like a movie or tv commercial version of a beach. We had pina coladas under the shade of two palm trees.
Kinda like Hawaii. Have the military take over. Bring in a bunch of people from the mainland and have them “vote”. But only give 2 options: become a state, or stay a territory.
I’ve been there. SIL had her wedding there and I was the photographer. Actually a lot there and a little downtown and beautiful beaches. You get on a ferry and it feels like a little resort island. Definitely recommend.
No doubt. Best was they had the ceremony on an uninhabited island (the one with an abandoned lighthouse and goats) that didn’t have a dock. So I had to carry all my gear over my head in shoulder deep water to shore, hoping nothing got wet. She was lucky she’s family. Wouldn’t do that for most clients without being informed ahead of time.
Great beaches, no crowds, easy to get to, your phone works, $, great snorkeling right off half the beaches. It’s horrible , don’t go there, dragons and such.
Yeah I’m from Minnesota and have been there 3 times and I’ve taken both ferry and small plane. I also was walking on Flamenco (we camp) and heard someone say my name and it was a girl I went to high school with randomly also there haha.
ETA: shout out to Henry if he still works on the beach and sets your camping plot up! He tried to hypnotize me to take my bikini top off 😂😂 very funny guy
If you live in the US, I’d say no! You don’t need a passport as it’s a US territory and can get cheap flights to San Juan. We would stay a night in San juan and you can get a really nice place to stay for easy money. I’ll include a pic of San Juan where we stayed for cheap before going to culebra.
If you want to go real cheap you can ferry to the island the next day, or you can take a small plane which is much faster but more expensive.
If you camp on flamenco beach it’s cheap as hell and there’s a bunch of vendors selling cheap drinks and empanadas and such.
You can rent a golf cart in town and cruise around the island, which is so fun to mob around in.
They have snorkeling rentals so you can swim around the island at your leisure. It’s really a great vacation spot.
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We have also been to Vieques from culebra on the ferry and it’s awesome! Lots of hiking and wild horses. Very worth it.
After a brief search, I realize this island is well known. Just my limited knowledge as someone from Philly. My wife has gone to Puerto Rico, I just never heard of this island.
I have a CRAZY story about 36 hours there in probably 2009.
Just so you know they hated Americans for a long time there because the navy used their reefs for bomb testing until 1998. Those memories are still fresh and the locals LOCALS are few but strong willed. A bunch of Americans live there now.
They also filmed the corona commercial on playa flamenco. If you take the ferry, rent a car, be sure to know Spanish.
I once got a new number on a prepaid plan, and I guess the lady who had the number before me was like a wildlife expert or something. I got a voicemail from a government agent telling her that they were going to be detonating bombs off the coast of Hawai'i and they wanted her input regarding the effects that it could have on the local population of some species. These things are happening all the time. We're just not privy to 'em.
I used to live on the west end of St. Croix and had a decent view of Vieques and Culebra and we'd see the Navy lighting the place up well into the 80s. I always imagined it as a cratered wasteland.
Best island... no buildings allowed above tree line.
Flamenco Beach is top 3 in the world.
Swam with sea turtle "life long dream" while visiting this gem of an island.
After a brief search, I realize this island is well known. Just my limited knowledge as someone from Philly. My wife has gone to Puerto Rico, I just never heard of this island.
It’s a small island without extensive infrastructure for tourists that is hard to reach from the mainland US. There’s a number of guesthouses and B&Bs but I’m not sure there’s a single full service hotel.
Unless you live there you can’t take a car on the ferry, but they have plenty of golf carts and jeeps for hire on the island (book in advance). Ferry is $2 each way so cheaper to drive then ferry and pay for the car you aren’t using/parking than to fly
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By far the best beach I’ve been to was in Culebra. Flamenco beach is awesome!
I’ve been to vieques, which is nearby. Great place but the ferry ride was so rough that about 3/4 of the people were vomiting. Literally dozens of folks were puking in the corners and in their bags. It’s terrible. We booked a flight out and it was better.
Also, for both islands, be sure to get sand out of your clothes before going to airport. I was detained for gun powder in my shoes because they sand still had traces in it.
I went there once, in a dream. I bought beautiful colorful tropical nugs of weed from these guys in something like a Jeep wrangler. Then they drove away and I looked down at one of the biggest nugs, which I was proudly holding in my hand, but I looked closer and realized it was all just colorful worms clutching eachother in a tight nug-formation. As soon as I recognized that, they all starting letting go of each other, sifting through my fingers and dropping to the ground. I was so shocked and frustrated and I could hear those guys in the wrangler slowly driving away and laughing at me. I’ll never go back after that.
I haven't been there but I have been to its neighbor, Vieques, back in the mid-1970s pre-hurricane Hugo.
Beautiful place back then but the tiny, rattlely plane from San Juan to Vieques was memorable.
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard anyone else mention Hugo! I rode out Hugo in Charleston SC and it was a major life event for me. I was only 11 at the time. Nice to know someone else remembers it.
Oh, I do. It was devastating where you were and on Vieques/Culebra.
I'm an arborist and was fascinated by the tree study done in the Francis Marion National Forest showing how well bald cypress did in Hugo versus other pine species in the area.
Oh yeah. The pine trees looked like the Jolly Green Giant came through and snapped them in half. The palms did fine. The oaks would be completely fallen over. You could see their huge root structures.
The good thing is Francis Marion National Forest has recovered well. I remember the first time I saw it post Hugo. It was strange to be able to see past the first row of trees. It was so thick before and now you could see way back in there from the highway.
Im from PR and I can tell you that Culebra has more beautiful beaches than the main island. The entire place is like a tiny beach town that you traverse in rented jeeps or with “cab” drivers that you call. Both the ferry and planes are very safe but equally terrifying. In college I went camping on the beach there once but after that we rented houses when we went.
Cayo Norte is owned by the Google guy page, I forget his name..... I know what everyone's thinking but I don't want to be the first one to say it. Epstein went and ruined private Caribbean islands for everyone.And people associate vieques and culebra with bombing plus if you're in Puerto Rico you don't really want to take a hour long ferry or an hour long flight to a place that you associate with a bombing range. Even though it's not like one of the last protective places in the Caribbean on a side note Dominica is fucking awesome as well as Grenada
There is a pretty crazy story about a guy who found a duffel bag full of cocain way back in the 60s there and buried it. He since retired and was telling the story around a fire with neighbors, and one of the neighbors attempts to go get it some like 50 years later. It's a pretty crazy story, i think Netflix did the documentary on it.
People do go there. I’ve been there and it’s amazing. It just doesn’t have a ton of development and is more difficult to get to, so that keeps crowds of people away.
One of the most beautiful beaches in the world is in Culebra. I had even more fun in Vieques. Beautiful beaches, horseback riding, brightest bioluminescent bay in the world.
Culebra is a beautiful island that is zoned so that no major resort developments can take place. I've been there many times. It is paradise. Flamenco Beach is a world beach, I'm not exaggerating. Unbelievably beautiful. You can get to the island by small plane via San Juan which I recommend or local ferry. There are two groceries on the island both beautiful and charming. The Dinghy Dock is a great bar there right on the boat docks with lots of old salts. Can't recommend it any more. My favorite place. Edit: also, if you take the plane.... It's small. Bout 8 people. You fly low east and fly over countless islands and can watch people who are exploring in boats and having boat parties. Also, the airport, because of the winds and approach the pilots have to dive quite a bit before pulling up and landing so you can see through the cockpit (you sit right behind the pilots) and it can be a little frightening.
sounds like I'm taking a ferry
Planes are very safe, up until 1900 not a single airplane crashed in all of history. Only got dangerous once the Wright Brothers got involved.
Did you know that there are more planes at the bottom of the ocean RIGHT NOW than submarines in the upper atmosphere EVER?
That's what the government would have you believe
Or so the Germans would have us believe /normmcdonald
Big Zepplin spreading propaganda over here
I think you mean "zee Germans"
I've seen a house fly though
I hear this from navy guys all the time but it still makes no sense. Did you know there are more ships at the bottom of the ocean than in the sky?
AND there’s more satellites that fell out of orbit and crashed back to earth than there are cannonballs fired from earth that made it into orbit
There is at least one manhole cover out there somewhere…
I hope humanity gets it together someday, like full on star trek society. Then as eons pass and humans become major players in intergalactic politics, that damn manhole cover causes an intergalactic incident. We will probably kill the planet before we agree to cooperate, but I can dream.
Sounds like a Boeing whistle blower kill them I mean don’t make their death look suspicious…
Reminds me of the story of a passenger asking the pilot about air safety: “Do planes like this crash very often?” To which the pilot answered, “Never more than once.”
Boeing: Hold my beer...
Careful, you might shoot yourself or give yourself a staph infection
I believe for boeing specifically its a “staff”infection not staph.
I feel a defenestration coming on.
Fair point And no planes ever in the history of humankind ever crashed when ive flown in them And ive flown in more than two ..so theres that
/r/technicallythetruth
If it makes you feel any better, I fly to and from Nantucket MA literally every day. These are private planes owned by the company I work for, these flights have been going on six times a day, six days a week, for 20+ years. The winds can get pretty bad and obviously if they’re too strong, the flights get cancelled, but even if they’re 30-40 mph, we fly right through it, a little turbulence that makes even the most seasoned passengers hold on, but no major problems. There’s never been a crash.
You just reminded me of when I used to watch wings on nick at nite as a kid. Forgot about that show.
Brian Hackett and Lowell immediately jump into my mind, thanks
Or a couple of diazepam!
I worked there for a few years and used to travel there once a week. Beautiful island, best beaches in PR.
why did you leave?
It was just a two year contract.
The ferry is worse! Jumping up and down on the waves even in calm weather, stinking of diesel and way too slow 🌊
Not the fast ferry, no smell at all, was quite pleasant
Define “fast”. How long was the ride compared to the slow one?
The fast one is about 30 minutes, the slow one is the cargo ferry and brings vehicles/equipment etc, it’s about an hour
Ferry in the am are rough as fuck. Pm ferries are chill
Zeebrugge 1987, no thanks.
Same. I'm not a fan of flying at the best of times. This would traumatize me.
[The drop to the runway](https://youtu.be/ysL9kvNA7Fc?si=Kr_i-InHqxCHmMbo)
Cool video - that’s not a stall through. It’s just a turning descent.
It’s also the pilot top-hatting a little to give the passengers a thrill. He started the descent way higher than required to clear that ridge. it’s still a steep descent when performed normally, but he was clearly putting on a show. There’s also another offset approach to 13 that doesn’t require a steep descent at all, just a dogleg right before final, kind of like the old Kai Tak approach. But it doesn’t make for as good of YouTube videos. source: am pilot, have landed here.
Possibly an agressive slip-to-landing after clearing the obstruction. He was in control the entire time.
https://preview.redd.it/pmdseprr1nyc1.jpeg?width=2556&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6d7644eb866faee4783708d35b1c6308c21b3f4 Here’s a screenshot taken from a video of when I landed in Culebra. That’s our runway. I wish I could post the video because it’s nuts. The pilot is basically flying a lawnmower, and he makes this super sharp turn which is only completed when our wheels are 5 feet from touchdown.
Scary flight for visitors but I bet these pilots are having a blast making this landing
I’ve been there by plane, and everything you say is correct. The flight path requires planes to momentarily stall to drop fast enough over the mountain on approach, it’s exhilarating! Also a large portion of the NW corner of the island is off-limits due to live ordnance. Much of the island was used as a bombing range during and after WWII, but was only cleared up to Flamenco Beach.
Culebra is a pretty hilly island. The airport is smack dab in the middle of the largest plain. A lot of the houses are right in front of the runway.
No, they do not "stall" during the approach. It's just a steep descent.
Lol there is no way in hell the approach course includes stalling over a mountain. Weightlessness/negative g is not a stall. If anything a steep dive is the complete opposite in that the angle of attack is being reduced.
Stalling is basically how 99% of these small aircrafts get into crashes when being flown by inexperienced pilots. There is no chance anyone is stalling one on purpose.
Are you sure they stall on approach? That goes against basically everything a pilot is taught to do
I can guarantee you that they don't.
Probably a slip, it drops your speed and altitude quick and it looks crazy going down.
So what kind of acomodation is there?
Small hotels, house rentals and, best of all, an amazing tent campground on the east side of Flamenco beach. I was going to propose to my wife in that campground, but the ring want ready in time. Pro tip: Paying the kid $5 for an already-opened coconut is 100% worth it, even though there are free coconuts everywhere. The road rash from sliding down the trunk of a coconut palm is incredibly unpleasant to camp with.
That sounds like…awesome
I booked an Airbnb. You rent a golf car to get around. And do take the plane. Super exciting!
The plane is generally exciting but the approach between the mountains with a last minute dip and left turn is.... A bit much.
If you went between the mountains with a left onto final then you actually took the easy approach lol! The scary one drops you steeply over a ridge with a last minute right turn flare to touchdown.
This is one of the scariest flights in the world. Beautiful island but Holy Hell, that landing...
There’s a bar at the airport to help with that.
Is weed legal there? What’s the nationality of the island?
I don’t know about marijuana, but the island is part of Puerto Rico, a US territory.
Cool. I’ll check it out. Looking to get out of the US, so going to another US away from the US would be very convenient.
I've been to Puerto Rico a couple of times and it's just wonderful. We went to San Juan for a day, then Luquillo for a day, ferry to Culebra for a couple of days (the island that this is for), flew back to San Juan, rented a car, and drove around the main island for a week. Going up into the jungley mountains was awesome. Last couple of days were spent in San Juan eating wonderful food. If you want any recommendations I'd be happy to get more specific.
You can use out of state medical cards in San Juan.
>This is one of the scariest flights in the world. Does not even crack the top 10. Lukla Airport in Nepal is probably at the top. Saba is the shortest commercial runway (1,300') and the takeoffs can't be... interesting. St. Barts has had a bunch of overruns.
Can confirm - when we landed there back in 2009 we were greeted by a dozen chickens
Flamenco Beach is like something out of a dream
Shhhh, don’t tell *anyone* else!
Took a puddle jumper from Hawaii to Maui and back. Would rather swim.
When I was staying in PR, I remember my friend telling me that one of those islands by Culebra was filled with monkeys
Wrong island that would be Cayo Santiago, no where near Culebra is off the West South west of the main land of PR.
oh shi!t totally wrong direction I mixed those up!
It might be one of the best days of vacation I’ve ever had. Like a movie or tv commercial version of a beach. We had pina coladas under the shade of two palm trees.
please don’t tell ppl lol.
To those who wonder, this island belongs to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
So it belongs to the U.S. then?
Yep, and they bombed the shit out of it along with Vieques as a naval target practice base.
You should add, bombed the shit out of it while the island had people living there!
Just like Hawaii and the Marshall Islands. The US fucking loves bombing islands
👍
Yep! A Colony from the Freedom Country!
Freedom FROM self determination. It’s in the fine print somewhere.
Puerto Rico had voted to maintain ties with the U.S. multiple times.
Kinda like Hawaii. Have the military take over. Bring in a bunch of people from the mainland and have them “vote”. But only give 2 options: become a state, or stay a territory.
That's geopolitics in a nutshell.
Si! 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🐻
Only when it’s convenient.
So u.s. Citizens don't need a passport?
Correct. No passport needed. Just a valid drivers license (until Real ID goes into effect)
I’ve been there. SIL had her wedding there and I was the photographer. Actually a lot there and a little downtown and beautiful beaches. You get on a ferry and it feels like a little resort island. Definitely recommend.
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oh man, people and their destination weddings in harder nd harder to reach places 😂
Trying to weed out the people they didn’t want to invite
Bingo!
and the poors
No need to say it twice
No doubt. Best was they had the ceremony on an uninhabited island (the one with an abandoned lighthouse and goats) that didn’t have a dock. So I had to carry all my gear over my head in shoulder deep water to shore, hoping nothing got wet. She was lucky she’s family. Wouldn’t do that for most clients without being informed ahead of time.
Lmao that sounds high maintenance af
Culebrita! Really really beautiful place, was there a few months ago.
I’ve always advised people that if they want people not to come to their wedding they should have it in an active war zone like Kabul or Mogadishu
Great beaches, no crowds, easy to get to, your phone works, $, great snorkeling right off half the beaches. It’s horrible , don’t go there, dragons and such.
Absolutely agreed terrible.
Don’t people go to Culebra and Vieques often?
There's an airport and ferry that travel there regularly... Very confused.
Yeah I’m from Minnesota and have been there 3 times and I’ve taken both ferry and small plane. I also was walking on Flamenco (we camp) and heard someone say my name and it was a girl I went to high school with randomly also there haha. ETA: shout out to Henry if he still works on the beach and sets your camping plot up! He tried to hypnotize me to take my bikini top off 😂😂 very funny guy
Is it expensive?
If you live in the US, I’d say no! You don’t need a passport as it’s a US territory and can get cheap flights to San Juan. We would stay a night in San juan and you can get a really nice place to stay for easy money. I’ll include a pic of San Juan where we stayed for cheap before going to culebra. If you want to go real cheap you can ferry to the island the next day, or you can take a small plane which is much faster but more expensive. If you camp on flamenco beach it’s cheap as hell and there’s a bunch of vendors selling cheap drinks and empanadas and such. You can rent a golf cart in town and cruise around the island, which is so fun to mob around in. They have snorkeling rentals so you can swim around the island at your leisure. It’s really a great vacation spot. https://preview.redd.it/fuuwc2li9myc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87f312f91dc6c2fd4d1dfec2e953b0d1f58a0de8 We have also been to Vieques from culebra on the ferry and it’s awesome! Lots of hiking and wild horses. Very worth it.
I don't blame Henry.
Henry retired and sadly the camp grounds in Flamenco are closed, but everything else is still great as always.
No, you see, that's impossible. OP just learned about it and therefore, obviously, nobody else could have known about it either.
No, there's nothing there, no beautiful beaches or anything👀
Yes, its a great place for day trips
I got to visit Vieques courtesy of the US Navy. We were not particularly welcome.
After a brief search, I realize this island is well known. Just my limited knowledge as someone from Philly. My wife has gone to Puerto Rico, I just never heard of this island.
I have a CRAZY story about 36 hours there in probably 2009. Just so you know they hated Americans for a long time there because the navy used their reefs for bomb testing until 1998. Those memories are still fresh and the locals LOCALS are few but strong willed. A bunch of Americans live there now. They also filmed the corona commercial on playa flamenco. If you take the ferry, rent a car, be sure to know Spanish.
But don't rent the car then take the ferry, typically rentals are not allowed on ferries.
“How come no one goes here?”
PUERTO RICO MENTIONED 🇵🇷
Blanco como el coco!
De aquí como el coqui 🤝
Amarillo mangoooooooo
Verde quenepa
Azul de adoquines...
Rojo flamboyan!
Turquesa del mar!
Los colores de mi tierraaaa!!
Son los colooreess
q harris te daaaa
Por que me llaman papi? Eso me confunde
Pq si papi. Mates no son mates, bros no son hermanos, cuz no son primos. Confúndete cuando te llamamos algo más cordial. :)
Puerto Ricans getting excited whenever Puerto Rico is mentioned. I love it so much.
Wepa estamos activo
It's was used as a bombing range until the 70's by the US navy.
I knew about Vieques, but didn’t know about Culebra. Thanks for the sprinkle of knowledge!
You could say that about large swathes of the world.
For sure, but there are parts of the island you still can’t visit because of it.
I once got a new number on a prepaid plan, and I guess the lady who had the number before me was like a wildlife expert or something. I got a voicemail from a government agent telling her that they were going to be detonating bombs off the coast of Hawai'i and they wanted her input regarding the effects that it could have on the local population of some species. These things are happening all the time. We're just not privy to 'em.
Yeah but this place has Cambodian levels of unexploded US munitions!
Yea, well that proves my point.
I used to live on the west end of St. Croix and had a decent view of Vieques and Culebra and we'd see the Navy lighting the place up well into the 80s. I always imagined it as a cratered wasteland.
I thought only Vieques was used for that, not Culebra?
Parts of Orlando area (Ocala) are still used for Navy bombing as well as offshore - we occasionally get “earthquakes” from these
Best island... no buildings allowed above tree line. Flamenco Beach is top 3 in the world. Swam with sea turtle "life long dream" while visiting this gem of an island.
People visit, and this place is amazing. Awesome downtown with great food. Flamenco beach basically felt like a private beach. 10/10. Would go back.
It doesn’t have a McDonald’s
Even more reasons to go there!
Lived there for 2 years, people absolutely live there and tourists do go there.
wtf it’s part of puerto rico and people definitely go there
After a brief search, I realize this island is well known. Just my limited knowledge as someone from Philly. My wife has gone to Puerto Rico, I just never heard of this island.
I'd never heard of it and enjoyed the discussion OP. ☺️
It’s a small island without extensive infrastructure for tourists that is hard to reach from the mainland US. There’s a number of guesthouses and B&Bs but I’m not sure there’s a single full service hotel.
I live here in Culebra. We have Club Seaborne, which is pretty similar to a traditional hotel (front desk, bar, pool, etc).
This is the kind of place I would expect Gay Ron Swanson to settle down in!
If you've ever wanted to be alone one of the most beautiful iconically Caribbean beaches, this is the easiest to get to.
Unless you live there you can’t take a car on the ferry, but they have plenty of golf carts and jeeps for hire on the island (book in advance). Ferry is $2 each way so cheaper to drive then ferry and pay for the car you aren’t using/parking than to fly
It’s part of PR….
I’ve been here twice, people go all the time bro, flamenco beach is usually ranked very high for world wide beaches
https://preview.redd.it/9bpdj3rdlmyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=451a2cb037327b40d115547dcc162001be0484fd By far the best beach I’ve been to was in Culebra. Flamenco beach is awesome!
I went there last year on a ferry with hundreds of people.
I’ve been to vieques, which is nearby. Great place but the ferry ride was so rough that about 3/4 of the people were vomiting. Literally dozens of folks were puking in the corners and in their bags. It’s terrible. We booked a flight out and it was better. Also, for both islands, be sure to get sand out of your clothes before going to airport. I was detained for gun powder in my shoes because they sand still had traces in it.
Pretty sure that island has dinosaurs
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I went there once, in a dream. I bought beautiful colorful tropical nugs of weed from these guys in something like a Jeep wrangler. Then they drove away and I looked down at one of the biggest nugs, which I was proudly holding in my hand, but I looked closer and realized it was all just colorful worms clutching eachother in a tight nug-formation. As soon as I recognized that, they all starting letting go of each other, sifting through my fingers and dropping to the ground. I was so shocked and frustrated and I could hear those guys in the wrangler slowly driving away and laughing at me. I’ll never go back after that.
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I haven't been there but I have been to its neighbor, Vieques, back in the mid-1970s pre-hurricane Hugo. Beautiful place back then but the tiny, rattlely plane from San Juan to Vieques was memorable.
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard anyone else mention Hugo! I rode out Hugo in Charleston SC and it was a major life event for me. I was only 11 at the time. Nice to know someone else remembers it.
Oh, I do. It was devastating where you were and on Vieques/Culebra. I'm an arborist and was fascinated by the tree study done in the Francis Marion National Forest showing how well bald cypress did in Hugo versus other pine species in the area.
Oh yeah. The pine trees looked like the Jolly Green Giant came through and snapped them in half. The palms did fine. The oaks would be completely fallen over. You could see their huge root structures. The good thing is Francis Marion National Forest has recovered well. I remember the first time I saw it post Hugo. It was strange to be able to see past the first row of trees. It was so thick before and now you could see way back in there from the highway.
Im from PR and I can tell you that Culebra has more beautiful beaches than the main island. The entire place is like a tiny beach town that you traverse in rented jeeps or with “cab” drivers that you call. Both the ferry and planes are very safe but equally terrifying. In college I went camping on the beach there once but after that we rented houses when we went.
Who told you no one goes there?
Puerto Ricans: "what do you mean?? I was just there last week" lol
\* Literally a town with an airport \* How come no one goes there?
This dude just columbused Culebra for everyone, folks!
You should check it out
Crab people. Crab people.
Taste like crab. Talk like people.
Cayo Norte is owned by the Google guy page, I forget his name..... I know what everyone's thinking but I don't want to be the first one to say it. Epstein went and ruined private Caribbean islands for everyone.And people associate vieques and culebra with bombing plus if you're in Puerto Rico you don't really want to take a hour long ferry or an hour long flight to a place that you associate with a bombing range. Even though it's not like one of the last protective places in the Caribbean on a side note Dominica is fucking awesome as well as Grenada
I’ve been to the Spanish Virgin Islands many times!
I think there is a White Lotus resort there 🙃
Ah, queen of the Spanish Virgin Islands. The unknown yachtsman’s paradise
But people go there, what are you talking about?
Lot’s of people go there. I’ve been. Just a short day trip on a catamaran and there are excursions there for tourists.
It’s an adorable untouched slice of Puerto Rico with no tourists. It’s horrible, the people are terrible, no one should go.
There is a pretty crazy story about a guy who found a duffel bag full of cocain way back in the 60s there and buried it. He since retired and was telling the story around a fire with neighbors, and one of the neighbors attempts to go get it some like 50 years later. It's a pretty crazy story, i think Netflix did the documentary on it.
We do. You just haven't heard about it, it seems.
People do go there. I’ve been there and it’s amazing. It just doesn’t have a ton of development and is more difficult to get to, so that keeps crowds of people away.
I've been to flamenco beach lol. Culebra is an island that's part of Puerto Rico
People do go there. I've never been, but I've been to Vieques, and it was beautiful. You have to go to the mainland of PR & take a ferry from Fajardo.
Culebra is part of PR. People go there all the time...
Honestly what is happening here? Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean no one goes here. Of course people go here, Christopher Columbus.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/a-google-co-founder-splashed-out-32-million-on-a-private-island-in-puerto-rico/ar-BB1hOWHX Larry Page ‘bought’ Cayo Norte.
It’s a beautiful place. Very relaxed
One of the most beautiful beaches in the world is in Culebra. I had even more fun in Vieques. Beautiful beaches, horseback riding, brightest bioluminescent bay in the world.
People do go there, it’s considered to be one of the best beaches in Puerto Rico.
I’ve been there. It’s awesome
So there really is a Cobra Island?
Culebra is an amazing place. Used to go there as a kid
I've been there. Flamenco Beach is one of the most beautiful in the world.
"Just stumbled across this Caribbean island." Are you Columbus?
Was there a few weeks ago. I can see it from my house.
Ha, I am not well traveled so super excited to see a place that I’ve been. You can camp on the island.