A glance across Puerto Rico’s waters will reveal a canvas of shifting blues, where sunlight dances over coral heads and currents swirl past shores that are as beautiful today as they were centuries ...

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico – I pulled my paddle through the water and watched as a thousand streaks of light followed. Then I dipped my hand in, swirled it around and stared, mesmerized, as the bay glowed.

Vieques (pronounced Vee-ek-ez) is located about 8 miles off the east coast of mainland Puerto Rico, one of two inhabited sister islands – the other is Culebra – easily accessible by ferry or small ...