Dive Review of
Parguera Divers/Parador Posada Porlamar in
Puerto Rico/Southwest coast/La Parguera

Grand Cayman; Bonaire; Cozumel; Palm Beach & Key Largo in Florida; Cape
Hatteras & Morehead City in NC

Dive Conditions

Divemasters were scrupulous about checking everyone's air consumption and
making sure the group stayed together.    

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Overall Rating

I wish we'd known it was the start of a four-day holiday weekend.  Seems
like most of San Juan joined us on the road to La Parguera.  Parador Posada
Porlamar is part of a network of 18 "paradores" in Puerto Rico --
sort of a three-story eclectic country inn overlooking the south coast.  We
unfortunately got a room right next to the outdoor wooden staircase, and
listened to stair climbers for most of our first three nights.  Also had
problems with air conditioning, since the influx of holiday visitors to the
town quite overloaded the town's electrical capacity.  The onsite
restaurant, La Pared, was excellent (but pricey) for dinner.  Buffet
breakfast was included with dive packages but service was quite slow.  And
for some reason, the waterfront bar was never open.  Never!  Now....the
diving, with Parguera Divers (Angel Rovira and wife Roberta Santos are
owner operators -- www.pargueradivers.com) was just spectacular.  Parguera
Divers is one of the best, most thorough dive ops we've seen.  The ride to
the wall can be pretty choppy, we learned.  EVERYTHING not stowed away in
the fore cabin will get wet.  Water temps were consistently 83 degrees top
to bottom - balmy!  Saw a huge crowd of Atlantic spadefish on one dive, an
overly intrusive remora on another.  Lots of black durgon, parrotfish,
chromis, tangs, gobies.  Corals were great and varied (sea fans and rods,
black coral bushes, wire corals, brain and sheet and encrusting corals) and
the walls just wonderful--particularly a swim-through at 120 feet marked by
an eleven-tube lavender stovepipe sponge.  We did a night dive one evening
(I didn't enjoy it...too many people and too little viz) and afterwards
Angel took us over to swim in the Phosphorescent Bay, which was
unbelievable.  Recommend Guacataco for open-air local food, or Golden City
(Chinese/criollo in the local mall) for lunch, followed by naps!   

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