By agmoore on Skatehive
There was a light rain when my daughter took this picture, but that did not drive her indoors. The beach was still quite pleasant. According to the website Travel Panda, it rains just about every day in Puerto Rico, usually a drizzle but sometimes a thunderstorm. Temperature is consistently around 85, though. When Christopher Columbus encountered the Taíno, Puerto Rico's indigenous people, he observed: “They were very well built, with very handsome bodies and very good faces....They do not carry arms or know them....They should be good servants.” Good servants indeed. Historians report that the Spanish (beginning with Columbus) enslaved the Taíno, in Puerto Rico and across the Caribbean. It didn't take long for this treatment, and European diseases, to kill off Puerto Rico's indigenous population. However, though it has been suggested that the Taíno became extinct, this is not true. Their genetic legacy lives on in their descendants. Among these descendants is my granddaughter whose pa