La Cueva del Indio Pt 2

So while Sara was exploring the cave with our guide, I sat in a safe place in the shade entranced by the ebb and flow of the waves as they pounded the rocks below. I looked for a pattern so that I could predict the monster waves that sprayed me in my perch 50 ft above. It was totally random and wonderfully unpredictable!

Then we were lead to various spots above the caves where you could see more rocky points jutting out of the coast in the distance. We saw formations that looked like faces, eagles, turtles and whales. As you walked there were random holes that opened up to the other world below. It was imperitive to step carefully, but our reward was exhilarating views that far too few PR visitors experience.

Stories of the cave go back to the original inhabitants...indians (indios). Forgive me for any inaccuracies, but I hear that the Spanish landed and quickly enslaved them. The indians said they would rather die than give up their freedom, so they covered themselves with mud and jumped to their deaths at the rocks by the cave. Little did the Spaniards know that the mud helped cloud the crystal clear water as the men escaped through an underwater entrance to the cave. When the queen heard that her potential workforce was rapidly diminishing, she gave the order to cease. The men who had been living in the caves were free to immerge.