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FISHING
Puerto Rico offers top class Deep Sea Fishing around the island. The ocean drops thousands of feet in a short run from the dock on most coasts. A whole array of offshore species can be caught year round in this Caribbean island, especially blue marlin, sailfish, dolphin fish, wahoo and tuna.

There are seasons during which they can be found in greater numbers. The blue marlin run starts on the south coast from April through July, while in the north coast it starts in June and ends in August. Around the Mona Channel off the west coast, the season runs from July through October. The dolphin fish runs significantly bigger on the Caribbean or south coast of the island, from November through May.

White marlins are most frequent from January through May, peaking in April. They average 45 to 60 pounds and provide good action when the blues cool off.

Rigged fishing boats are available for charter in San Juan, Isla Verde, Humacao and Fajardo. Boats range in size from 28 to 61 feet. Smaller boats sized from 17 to 20 feet are available for harbor and lagoon fishing.

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SCUBA DIVING
For scuba divers, we have something unique and very special. Pristine reefs, spectacular walls, intriguing caverns, and mangrove-topped cays define the tropical waters that surround our island. They form the backdrop for dives that are as dazzling as any found in the Caribbean and as diverse as its marine line. Multitudes of fish coexist with endangered manatees and humpback whales. Corals abound, including species that are mere memories on other islands.

Since diving in Puerto Rico is one of the Caribbean’s best-kept secrets, many of our sites remain untouched. Every dive trip is still an adventure, every diver an explorer. Diving in Puerto Rico is the next best thing to slipping into an aquarium. Underwater visibility can exceed 100 feet, and land and water temperatures hover around easy-to-take 78 degrees Fahrenheit (26 degrees Centigrade) all year round.

Our dive options are as varied as the sites themselves. Explore reefs that lie within a splash of your hotel room, or ones that fringe remote islets far from shore. Start you scuba experience with an easy half-day resort course, or enjoy an advanced dive 100 feet below the surface. We have beach dives, shallow dives, boat dives, wall and ledge dives, night dives, cave and wreck dives, and they are all memorable. Operators are NAUI, PADI, SSI, NASE, IDEA affiliated, fully qualified professionals using Coast Guard certified boats; they are also enthusiastic veterans of their dive region.

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GOLF
Puerto Rico has some of the finest golf courses in the Caribbean and Latin America, offering a wide variety of golfing experiences. This golfer’s paradise is home to 18 golf courses, including 12 championship-level courses and three new courses—the Dorado del Mar, the Flamboyan Course at Wyndham Palmas del Mar, and the Coamo Springs course.

The courses are designed by the most famous names in course design -- Greg Norman, Gary Player, Robert Trent Jones Sr., George Fazio, Rees Jones and Arthur Hills. In addition to the challenges of world-class golf are the warm and magical experiences found on this tropical island, which guarantee a perfect tee-time in magnificent natural settings, luxurious golf amenities and exciting nightlife options when darkness falls.

As the Caribbean mecca for golfers, Puerto Rico has been the site of top professional and amateur tournaments. In recent years, Puerto Rico has hosted the Ladies LPGA tour and the Hyatt Senior Tour Championship in which 30 of the top players on the PGA Senior tour competed for up to a million dollars in prize money. The Chrysler Senior PGA Matchplay Challenge, has been played in Puerto Rico for the past two years.

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NATURE ADVENTURE
Hiking 4,415 feet to the top of Cerro Punta, Puerto Rico’s highest peak; surfing the swells at Rincón beach; taking a moonless nighttime swim in Vieques’ Phosphorescent Bay, and scuba diving off Cayo Diablo and swimming with colorful fish, moray eels, octopus and an occasional manatee. From hiking to hang-gliding and rafting to rappelling, Puerto Rico provides an invigorating paradise for the adventurous traveler.

As a Caribbean island, Puerto Rico has a lot to offer the adventure seeker who is eager to swim with the fish and explore the world of colorful coral reefs. A memorable experience is swimming on a moonless night in Puerto Rico’s Bioluminescent Bays. These bays are home to large colonies of dinoflagellates, which light up like fireflies when any type of movement occurs. Two of the most spectacular bays are the Northeast’s Mosquito Bay in Vieques and La Parguera in the South.

There is a scuba diving and snorkeling experience for beginners and experts alike, in Puerto Rico, oftentimes called the Caribbean’s best kept secret. Off the southwest coast, from the village of La Parguera to the city of Ponce, lie some of the island’s most extraordinary dive sites, including Black Wall, home to the Caribbean’s rarely seen black coral, and Hai Lite, where jewfish, trumpetfish and giant tube sponges take up residency.

Snorkelers can head to the east coast of the island near Fajardo, where the crystal-clear, calm waters are the perfect setting to view mangrove cays, coral reefs and a wide array of tropical fish. Other noteworthy spots include Mona Island in the west, home to three-foot iguanas, as well as sea turtles, dolphins, marlin and marine life, and Vieques and Culebra in the east, two of Puerto Rico’s hidden island treasures. For those looking to get close to the water, but not necessarily submerge in it, Puerto Rico offers various seafaring activities like windsurfing, sailing, kayaking and deep-sea fishing.

Puerto Rico offers many forest reserves and visitors looking for a challenging trail should head for the Toro Negro Forest, located just north of Ponce, where hikers can climb 3,650 feet to the top of Pico Doña Juana. For those wanting to stay a little lower to the ground, the 7,000-acre reserve also offers a variety of hiking trails at varying levels of difficulty.

For a different type of hiking experience, one filled with cascading waterfalls and 26 varieties of animal species found nowhere else in the world, El Yunque in the northeast fits the bill. The only tropical rainforest on U.S. Forest Service, El Yunque has been declared a United Nations World Biosphere Reserve and should not to be missed.

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