Guava on My Mind
While perusing our local food stores you will no doubt come across unusual, discus-shaped tins or plastic packages of a local Puerto Rican specialty and taste phenomenon. Guava paste (pasta de guayaba in Spani... Read More...
IGUANA BITES ER, UM…BYTES
Vieques is inundated with iguanas. You’ll see these light-green, dark-green, tan or even greyish lizards lounging in trees, ambling along the thoroughfares or scuttling across the road – and not always successf... Read More...
Common Beachside Trees of Vieques
Here’s a quick survey of the some of our most frequently encountered seaside flora.
Sea Almond or Indian-Almond (Terminalia catappa)
Known as almendro (“almond”) in Spanish, this large, salt-resistant, drough... Read More...
Afraid of Sharks? What About This Little Guy?
Scolopendra gigantean. Yep- giant centipedes. These creatures live in the warm and moist areas of the world, mainly in the South American Amazon, parts of the Caribbean, and, you guessed it, here on Vieques...t... Read More...
How the Coqui Got to Hawaii
The genus name for the coqui frog, Eleutherodactylis, translates from the Latinized Greek for “free toes” alluding to the fact the toes are un-webbed.
16 species of tiny tree frogs belong to th... Read More...