Spanish Virgin Islands 2nd island

Isla De Culebra

Christopher Columbus was the 1st non-Indian to visit this island in 1493 on his second voyage to the new world. Later Sir Henry Morgan and other pirates used the island as an hideout. Legend has it some of their treasure is still buried there. Culebra means snake in Spanish, the name describes the shape of the island. It’s a small island about 7 miles long by 3 miles wide. The bay that we anchored in is in the town of Dewey.

Dewey is much cleaner then Isla de Viegues. The small restaurants and bars line the waterfront, we can pull right up to them with our dinghies and tie to the dock. Green rolling hills cover the island. There are way fewer rain falls much calmer anchorage. I like it so much better then Vieques. It could be that I still have a bad taste in my mouth from loosing our gas can for the dinghy.

We met up with a single manned sailboat Pharos, sailed by one lady named Susie. Her boat is the same size as ours, it’s increasable that she can sail it alone. She hangs in with the best of us! We have been enjoying her company now for about three days. Carl & Robert rented diving equipment to clean the barnacles off the bottom of our boat. They grow incredibly quick. We should be off to St Thomas tomorrow.