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Galloways Bar & Restaurant BAR
(Calle José de Diego) All pretense of being a restaurant is dropped by 9pm on weekends,
when a fun-loving yuppie crowd shows up for live 1980s and '90s rock. There's also occa-
sional Spanish guitar music.
Getting There & Away
The easiest way to get to Boquerón by público is via the town of Cabo Rojo (El Pueblo).
From April to August, it's easy to find one for about $3. From El Pueblo, you can also
catch a van to Mayagüez ($5, 40 minutes), Ponce ($9, two hours) or San Germán ($5, 20
minutes).
If you're driving from El Pueblo or Mayagüez, follow Hwy 100 south to Hwy 101 and turn
right (west). Driving from San Germán, it's a straight shot west on Hwy 101 south of Lajas.
Playa de Joyuda
Just north of Boquerón and south of Mayagüez, little Joyuda is a dining destination - fam-
ous for its string of seafood restaurants and known islandwide as the Milla de Oro del Buen
Comer (Gourmet Golden Mile). It might be a bit generous to call these places 'gourmet,'
but the seafood can be very fresh, and more than a dozen family-owned establishments line
a 3-mile oceanfront stretch of Hwy 102, specializing in oysters, crab and shrimp. Often,
you can get a seat right over the water and look down at startlingly large carp who loll up
to lazily beg for table scraps.
While Joyuda isn't a beach haven, there are plenty of accommodation options in this
ramshackle west coast outpost, and with a couple of decent sailing and dive operators and
a nearby nature reserve, there's enough outdoor adventures to work up an appetite for an
evening of shellfish. Just offshore, the tiny Isla de Ratones has a white sandy beach and is
great for snorkeling.
Sights & Activities
The heart of the 300-acre ReservaNaturalLagunadeJoyuda is a saltwater lagoon a mile
long and a half mile wide, with a depth that rarely exceeds 4ft. The sanctuary is of great
importance to waterfowl and other migratory birds that come here to prey on more than 40
species of fish. Humans come here for the same reason.
The reserve is also home to another of Puerto Rico's famous bioluminescent bodies of
water, like those in La Parguera and Vieque, but free of commercial tourism. After dark,
 
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