We have almost a full day left in Puerto Rico before our plane leaves toward the mainland in the evening and we decide to spend it by checking the close by Isla Verde beach and the nearby boutiques.
On the way to the beach we have to stop though as we notice two rock doves enjoying the water and bathing…they are really funny.
The Isla Verde beach is quite large and it has more people than the other beaches we have seen in Puerto Rico. But of course it is Saturday and we are near San Juan so it is understandable.
After a few minutes on the beach it is getting hot so we decide to visit the nearby air conditioned shops and boutiques. There are quite a few high rises and most of them are either apartments or condos for sales and rent.
We also find a quiet neighborhood park where we take a short walk and notice quite a few mushrooms and huge lizards…not sure if there was a relationship between these two facts. This is also a good spot to view the airplanes leaving the airport which we do for a while before retreating again to a nearby shopping complex to do some window shopping.
As it gets late we take our rental car back to the airport and after passing through security still have time to look at a few airport shops before boarding the plane for the flight back to mainland.
Overall Puerto Rico was more than we expected with quite a bit of variety in a small area and even though we spent a week on the island it feels that we barely scratched the surface of things to see and do. We haven’t gone to a coffee plantation, we haven’t done any snorkeling, we haven’t kayaked in the bioluminescent Fajardo Bay and we haven’t visited the inland mountains enough – just to list a few of the things that we missed and intend to do when we will return.