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Posted: Wed Mar 14th, 2007 11:30 pm |
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Friends, Culebra is more than beaches and bars as you all know. There is a history, a flora and fauna, dear people that are typical from Culebra, and many other things. Here is a trivia to see how much do you know of Culebra, for the regular visitors or things to discover in Culebra for the new ones.
Let's see who answers at least 5 of these 10 questions.
1. Who was Sharky and Lana in Culebra?
2. What is the popular use as a medicine of Shark's oil?
3. How Culebra got it's name?
4. Name three cays surrounding Culebra
5. What is Luis Peña and where is it?
6. In Flamenco, there are some artefacts in the beach that are remnants of what/
7. What is the name of the species of turtles that volunteers go to see them hatch and are endangered species, also the biggest in the world?
8. Mention the two beaches that the volunteers go to do this work?
9. When is the time of these species of turtles to hatch?
10. What is the name of the mayor of Vieques?
11. What is the name of a hotel across from the dock?
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Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 12:05 am |
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great fun.....let's play
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Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 01:20 pm |
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Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 03:46 pm |
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1. Who was Sharky and Lana in Culebra?
Sharky was Fidel's Dad. Lana was my merengue teacher.
Doug
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Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 04:20 pm |
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| Supposedly Culebra was the original name of Vieques, when Culebra was known as "Passage Island" because it lies half way between St. Thomas and Puerto Rico. At one time someone labelled a chart incorrectly and gave Vieques' name to Culebra (which means "snake" in Spanish). Others say the shape of the island resembles a curled up snake....
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Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 08:30 pm |
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Flamenco still has left over US Navy garbage that they never cleaned up, which is typical for the organization. Tanks are left over from the days the Navy bombed the island for practice -- there is a whole area at the end of Flamenco which is off limits because of unexploded ordiance. It is not uncommon for snorkelers off of Flamenco to see coral encrusted bombs.
There were huge protests, including a wooden chapel being built at Flamenco, from the Culebresen people (and a few gringos that may or may not also be known as dozzerhuggers), and the Navy decided to move it's operations to Vieques.
Don't let anyone tell you the US Government cleans up after itself!!!
The rusty tanks, tho, have become very much a monument and adopted by the local community and thanks to the talented artistic work of Jorge Acevedo, the tanks are now one of the more photographed areas on Culebra.Attachment: IMG_2776.jpg (Downloaded 51 times)
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Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 10:16 pm |
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| Sharky was a cuban old man with deep blue eyes, ahahaha Doug, Fidel's dad ahahaha. Well, he was called sharkey because he was good fishing sharks which he used for oil to make a medicine to .... I can't tell because it is part of the questionsof the trivia
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Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 10:20 pm |
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| Oh My God, your answers are also a teaching with photos and all!!!!, well Culebra's name as I understand was taken from the dedication of the island to the Bishop of Toledo named Saint Ildefonso de la Culebra.
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Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 10:26 pm |
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LOL....do I get an "A"???
Doug was joking about Sharkey -- Sharkey liked to tell some tales, some of them tall, and some of them true!! And I'm sure Doug was taught many things by Lana......here she is semi-dancing, semi-holding up David McGuire (or is she holding him up?)Attachment: david&Lana.jpg (Downloaded 44 times)
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Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 10:35 pm |
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| yes you get an A, with all these memorabilia. Also Sharkey used to say that he was the kid of the Old Man and the Sea that Hemingway got inspired in his novel. Who knows? Was Lana the lady that inone of the huricanes she had an interview one day at the newspaper that she used to live by the beach with a homemade tent? Did you ever met Elisa, she used to rent bikes and snorkle gear nex to Kokomo Hotel.
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Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 10:49 pm |
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I think you're thinking of Johanna, who really did live off the land out by Dakity and has lived a very colorful life!
Of coarse I know Elisa -- I had the cafe in Kokomo -- she's a wonderful woman, and I miss her!Attachment: IMG_0884.jpg (Downloaded 40 times)
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Posted: Fri Mar 16th, 2007 12:23 am |
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I was digging through my old pix to find one of Sharky and Fidel. So far - no go. I do have a Sharkey t-shirt with Fidel on it. If Fidel wasn't Sharky's child, he was his best buddy.
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Posted: Fri Mar 16th, 2007 03:30 pm |
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| Elisa now is involved in helping with the production of some films, and also taking people to Peru. She was working in the West with channel 6 project to train community workers to develop documentaries for divulgation of situations in their communities. She is always busy in interesting things. She is a good friend of mine. Right now she is living in Rincon.
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Posted: Fri Mar 16th, 2007 08:45 pm |
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| please give her my love when you see her.....
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Posted: Fri Mar 16th, 2007 09:19 pm |
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| what name must I say?
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Posted: Fri Mar 16th, 2007 09:34 pm |
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| Laurie/Wash & Wear Cafe
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