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Puerto Rico Day 8: Cabo Rojo

1 January 2022 • 100 km / 62 mi (map)

Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 10 January 2022
Puerto Rico 9

Happy New Year! Today, we drove down to the southwesternmost point of Puerto Rico to see Cabo Rojo and its lighthouse, Faro Los Morrillos.

A wide panoramic coastal landscape near Faro Los Morrillos in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, with dry golden grasses and low green scrub in the foreground, a broken paved path on the left, and a calm turquoise sea and distant hills under a deep blue sky dotted with wispy clouds.

A gravel and concrete path leads across dry grassland toward a white lighthouse standing on a low hill under a deep blue clear sky, with the sea faintly visible on the horizon at left.

A whitewashed lighthouse with an attached low keeper’s building featuring green shuttered arched windows, set on a bare dirt clearing under a deep blue sky with the ocean visible to the right.

by Lisa Rozmyn

A gray plastered wall with an arched window fitted with bright green louvered wooden shutters set in a white recessed frame, flanked by two vertical drainpipes. In front runs a pale concrete walkway bordered by dry, golden grass under strong midday sunlight.

A rocky, grass-covered coastal hillside overlooking a calm turquoise bay at Playa Sucia in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, with a sandy beach, scattered shrubs, golden cliffs, and a deep blue sky above.

A calm coastal lagoon under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds, seen from a sandy shore where a bare twisting driftwood branch and a low green shrub grow near the water’s edge, with a piece of weathered driftwood in the foreground and a low tree-covered shoreline in the distance.

A wooden sign reading “NO ESTACIONE” with arrows pointing left and right stands on two posts along a shoreline, with short wooden bollards in the sandy foreground and a calm lagoon, dead branches, and low green hills under a blue sky with scattered clouds behind it.

No parking, or you’ll drown?

The road into and out of Rojo Cabo is … a bit difficult. It took us 10 minutes to drive the last 1.2 km / ¾ mile into the park area. Here’s why:

A rutted dirt road pitted with large muddy potholes filled with murky brown water, leading toward a shallow tidal lagoon where weathered wooden posts stand in the water. Dense green mangrove trees line the far shore under a blue sky with scattered white clouds.

Potholes much?

It was very hot this afternoon (31°C / 88°F — ¡hacia mucho calor!), so we retreated back to the treehouse, where it was shady and we could nap a bit.

Later we met the property owners, Matt and Janine, who gave us a very nice tour of the grounds and talked through their history of buying the property and building the treehouses (three as of our visit!).