If you’re searching for a good beach near Ponce, Puerto Rico, you might want to visit Playas Clavellina and Jauca. In our most recent effort to find that elusive quality south-coast beach, we followed the map to the coast, east of the Ponce Airport, past the giant windmills, to these small gems in Santa Isabel. They are located in a rich agricultural area that produces an abundance of tropical fruits such as mangoes.
Playa Clavellina is good for one thing: kite surfing. It was so
windy we could only stay for a couple of minutes The sand whipping against our
skin actually hurt! But for kite surfers, it was likely a gift from God. And it
explained the location of the nearby wind farm.
Further down the same road, on the edge of the Punta Petrona
Nature Reserve, we happened upon mostly deserted Playa Jauca. It was a
black-sand beach with a few shade trees and a lot of mangroves, in quiet,
shallow Jauca Bay, well-protected from the wind. We spent a relaxing couple of
hours and even enjoyed a visit from the piragua guy!
Map: Playa Clavellina
Map: Playa Jauca
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