Sunday February 7: Culebra

Casa Cubuy also operates a restaurant - strangely enough though it's a mile down the mountain. My guess is that it there mostly for the guests at the Casa as this is not a very populated area.

Dinner was good (grouper) and a glass of wine sitting and overlooking a rainforest is always good!!

Early to bed as we would again be up and out to make our flight to Culebra. It was about an hour and fifteen minutes back to San Juan.

And then the rainforest acted like a rain forest!

It rained off and on through the night. In my half awake state, the sound of the waterfall just down from the Casa continued to increase in volume throughout the night.

I needed a survival plan as I just knew the whole Casa was going to end up sliding down the mountainside! We were on the top floor so I thought at least we wouldn't be crushed by any floors above us :-)

By morning the roar of the waterfalls was even louder so Steve walked back down the path to check out the calm flowing stream from yesterday. What a difference! Just crazy .... and we indeed did NOT slide down the mountain :-)

Steve found a small snail who wanted to share our view this morning as we had coffee before breakfast. Very cute - I sadly almost squished him. Good thing he was saved by Steve!

Breakfast table was set (fewer guests last night), we ate and were off down the mountain to San Juan.



After a search for both the car return place and the check in gate for our flight to Culebra, we were finally set and ready to go. No security checks on this flight! I guess if you're only going to crash a commuter flight with 4 people on it, it's no big deal. We knew we were ok and the other couple traveling with us (from Wisconsin) seemed ok as well.

Steve was definitely a happy camper as he loves these little planes. I could definitely do without it but every once in a long while is ok.

Culebra is a beautiful island with many surrounding small - mostly rock - islands. The view coming in was really nice.

And we flew right over Flamenco Beach - said to be one of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean.

After a short 5 minute drive from the airport we checked into our last minute bargain hotel. It was right downtown and on the 3rd floor. What a view!

We overlooked the harbor and the ferry terminal. It was entertaining just watching the publicos (public buses that go to the beaches) line up - ready for the folks on the ferry. Very reminiscent of Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie.

As luck would have it, our hotel was above one of the local bars! And it was SuperBowl Sunday! It didn't start until 7:30 local time so we ordered some homemade lasagna from the Gypsy Cafe (they just bring your dinner right to the bar!) and enjoyed both the game and the dinner.

Hard to believe thing? We were in an OFFICAL BROWNS BACKER VIEWER LOCATION!! Apparently the owner is a big Brown's fan :-) Who would have guessed on this tiny island off of Puerto Rico we would actually find a Brown's bar!!

Funny Wendy's comment:  "Hard to believe, all right! The eternal optimists are everywhere =)"

Very funny .....

The sunset was hidden by the clouds but you get the idea of what it was like just sitting on the balcony.

What a great idea to stay a few more days ...