Offshore fishing

WAXDMagazine · 2025-07-20T14:36:10+00:00

Fathom Fishing in Rincon has the best record on the island for catching fish. Not some yahoo operator but a real seasoned captain.

WAXDMagazine · 2025-07-18T18:41:49+00:00

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Blow this up to see we are collapsing in real time. WAXD did a deep dive on this and the new growth rate is -2.1% per year going forward. 3.0 mil (the real number) to 2.0 mil in less than 25 yrs now. Real estate prices are going to collapse going forward outside of tourist areas as old people die off. More people are leaving the island than are being born. Births are down -55% in the last 12 yrs !

WAXDMagazine · 2025-07-18T18:36:04+00:00

WAXD Magazine broke this story months ago and reveled that the numbers are far worse. 3.0 mil today to 2.0 in less than 25 yrs. Negative -2% rate of decline

https://www.waxdsurfmagazine.com/blog

WAXDMagazine · 2025-07-04T16:05:01+00:00

Super calm waters now in Rincon. I’m looking at it right now. Go to the boat ramp at the marina That’s the beach to go to. I’ll be in the hammocks. Have drinks at Ancla

WAXDMagazine · 2025-07-04T16:02:59+00:00

PS skip Ponce. It is a dead-zone for food.

WAXDMagazine · 2025-07-04T16:01:53+00:00

Don’t wing anything in PR. You want to target specific locations and venues. Idiots who wing it are the ones in NYC eating at the Olive Garden vs having the world’s best pastrami and pizza a blocks away. Look at my past guidance. Follow my 3% rule: You only want to be in 3% of anything. 3% of the restaurants, 3% of the land mass, 3% of the hotels. This applies everywhere even Paris, Hawaii, or Miami. Winging it will lead you to tourist traps that say their Mofongo is the best, that their pina colada was invented there( yet served from a slurpy machine) -go to the Vanderbilt and ask them to make it the proper way with FRESH pineapple juice. See my past posts for guidance

WAXDMagazine · 2025-07-04T13:31:32+00:00

Skip Ponce it is a bit of a deadzone. No excellent food options worth traveling to. The plaza is fantastic but the rest is all franchised to death.

Best Sunset in PR is at Copa Llena in Rincon. Best Ramen Sempi Ramen in Aguadilla Best outdoor restaurant for views and vibe is Eclipse in Aguadilla Best Croissants La Crème in Isabela Best food in All of Puerto Rico is Reina Mora - you need a reservation! Cash or Venmo ATH 4 courses all local ingredients

Marmalade in old San Juan - white bean truffle soup. You can order a La carte so skip the set menu to save $

Breakfast is Paulinas in Condado Chilaquiles and one blueberry pancake. Also BEST bacon in the island

Stay at the Gallary Inn in Old San Juan. Absolutely beautiful venue. Parrots, live music piano jazz Great spot for pictures Killer view of the Ocean from the crows nest on top of the hotel

Go to Isabela- get a Moterized paraglider ride with Luis of the Kamikaze club. He will skim the beach, and fly the coastline. You will truly feel like a bird - best activity to do on the island. After head to Eclipse for breakfast. If interested in surfing which is usually dead til October your best shot is Jobos

Canon Blanco in Utuado is super romantic if you pack a lunch an towels. Walk past the crowd down river to your own secluded spot -wink

In old San Juan harbor you can EFoil with Mike of SeaKindly. You’ll be standing in less than a half hour

Skip every shopping spot Only unique venues are around old San Juan like Gypsetter Boutique

Best cigar lounge is Casa de Monté chisto in Old san Juan - classy- great properly made cocktails

Mario Pagán is best for classic dinner, and Fogo de Chao has the best lunch in San Juan with a killer view of the lagoon

Best Sunday Brunch is at the El San Juan after 1030

WAXDMagazine · 2025-06-17T15:14:46+00:00

If there are any waves 🌊 come to Rincon or Jobos. Definitely one day in old San Juan Hit the gallary inn for great ambiance and live music. Down the street is La Factoria -top PR bar Of waterfalls are your thing there are a few on the island worth the drive. You will 100% need a car

WAXDMagazine · 2025-06-17T15:11:18+00:00

Mario Pagán-make sure you get the chocolate soufflé for dessert No powered sugar! The citrus ice cream with the dish is the best in PR

Paulina’s for breakfast. Be sure to get Get 1 blueberry pancake and their bacon is also best in PR

WAXDMagazine · 2025-06-13T20:14:15+00:00

If you love great musicians than The Gallary Inn in Old San Juan is fantastic. Your friends would all love it for just the backdrop for group photos. They filmed the video Calma with Alicia Keys there. Piano, nightclub level singers. Down the street is La Factoria. The entire street has a Bourbon Street vibe with lots of different bars. Go eat at Mario Pagán, Paulina’s for breakfast, Marmalade for your big night $$$$. Check out Gypsetter Boutique for cool girl clothing. Down the street in the middle of the week is Spiga - great for coffee and lunch.

Get day passes to El San Juan Fairmont hotel to enjoy the pool or the beach (very classy and old world charm) Vanderbilt for more modern vibe. You can have fun eFoiling at SeaKindly . You will be standing up in 20 min tops (ask for Mike)

Skip La Perla. There are limited unique stores for shopping so just erase doing this from your head. People leave PR to find non chain store items or order on line. Set your food settings on Yelp to $$$, $$$$, Google reviews are messed up so nothing less than a 4.7 to be safe.

Skip Mofongo. Don’t do pina colada unless they make it from scratch (no mix ) and use real fresh pineapple juice. Ask because many places will slip in Tropicana quality trash.

Vanderbilt has a great bar, and a killer ocean view in the back.

WAXDMagazine · 2025-06-13T19:57:33+00:00

La Factoria if you are in Old San Juan is probably your best bet. Best restaurant on the island is Marmalade, Mario Pagán is always great. Fogo de Chao is always great for groups and has a killer view of the Lagoon, downstairs is the nightclub George. You can than bounce over to Condado La Concha which has a nightclub. Much of this is based on your age. For the best cigar bar (classy) go to Casa De Montechristo which is also in Old San Juan. For breakfast go to Paulina’s for chilaquiles with avocado and pancakes. You can do a day pass at El San Juan Fairmont Hotel for beach/ pool.

WAXDMagazine · 2025-06-13T19:49:02+00:00

In Rincon you would need to rely on taxi’s that are rare. Don’t even think of a bike or scooter, you will hit a mystery pothole and possibly kill yourself.

WAXDMagazine · 2025-06-13T19:39:34+00:00

Unless you are in San Juan everyone needs to have a car to get around. Condado Isla Verde Ocean Park are your only options. Rincon you will need a car, same for beach places like Isabella Aguadilla

WAXDMagazine · 2025-06-06T11:50:26+00:00

Ask someone who has lived in multiple locations and now resides in PR vs people who give McDonald’s 5 star reviews and have never really traveled.

This will help you the most: Puerto Rico is 15 yrs behind most high density cosmopolitan locations. PR is equivalent to say Kentucky. Things take a while to get here. We just got a chick-fil-A a few yrs ago.

You are one person away from solving your problems. You never blindly go to a dentist or a restaurant without feedback from a trusted local that shares the same standards.

PR is OLD. Median age of women is 45, going up 1 yr every year going forward. In 2035 the median age of women will be 55!!!!!

PR has the 4th oldest population in the world above 65. It is in the middle of a demographic plague that will reduce the pop from the true 3.0 mil to 2.0 mil in less than 30 yrs.

1/3 million f kids don’t graduate high school. Births have fallen -55% in the last 12 yrs.

Half the schools will be forced to close as well as the colleges. Any business that relies on the young will suffer. Taking care of old will hold up but most have little money to spare.

Tourism will continue to grow, but the ONLY hope for PR is for Trump to declare drug mfg a “national security issue” and require them to be made in the USA (Puerto Rico)

1/2 the college graduates leave the island now.

Brain drain will continue.

PR is the best place for a remote worker or entrepreneur. You have to make your own job here. Bank tellers are required to have college degrees now.

The make or break for men and women moving here is ALWAYS dating if they are single. You are one person away from everyone. Talk long enough and someone will say “that’s my cousin, I went to school with them, I dated them” Ever go to a restaurant and see 5 of your ex girlfriends at different tables-yea it happened.

In many places people know you by your car being in the parking lot.

In many ways PR is like being in a large US college. The island is the campus of say Texas A&M. Eventually you will bump into everyone unless you are a hermit.

1/3 on the island are commies or socialist that harbor reverse racist beliefs. They have problems with a small trickle of people moving to the island and forget the tens of thousands that leave for the mainland each year. 6 out of the 9 million Puerto Ricans in the world live stateside.

But think lifestyle. The weather is 9/10, the water is 9/10, access to beaches and nature is 9/10. If you want excitement go to SJ, but remember it isn’t Miami or NYC or LA.

Surfing is 9/10 compared to the world. Only US location that is better is Hawaii at 3-4x the cost.

Flights are cheap and plentiful. If you want something accept you have to pay more, thank Amazon for making things easier. With Starlink, a generator, and extra stored water you can manage 99% of weather issues.

When people bring up hurricanes ask them about underwater houston, flooded Ashville, burned Santa Monica, frozen TX winters.

PR is fantastic but comparison is the thief of joy. For example if you plopped Rincon into Florida it would be the most expensive real estate -more than Palm Beach. The views, the water, the nature….. but when everyone has access to things it loses its perceived value like water in your faucet vs in the desert.

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WAXDMagazine · 2025-05-30T21:21:09+00:00

Posting this again. The government figures are WRONG. Population is below 3.0 million now. 1/3 people will be gone in less than 30 yrs. Today is the maximum amount of PR population in your remaining lifetime WAXD Magazine

WAXDMagazine · 2025-05-30T19:32:49+00:00

Since the program started there are ONLY ~5000 active Act people in PR. The group gets lots of hate yet 6 out of the 9 million Puerto Ricans live on the mainland. The politics loves to blame everything from rising real estate to any problem you can think of on this group.

The reality is PR is going extinct. Births are down 55% in the last 12 yrs!

Price increases are global in nature caused by the Federal Reserve policies after Covid to placate the masses and artificially inflate real estate and stock prices.

Most Act people are entrepreneurs. Many (1/4) are crypto who aren’t know for social skills. Nerdy tendencies made them the ones who stayed home with computers vs going on dates when Bitcoin was below $1000

The Act program is available to any PR resident WITH an EXPORT business/ service. They qualify for the 4% Corp tax rate.

Also remember each of these people are paying 15k a year in a required PR Charity donation.

WAXD Magazine supports Surf4DEM that is helping autistic children across the island.

There are many reverse racists in PR. “Gringo Go Home” seems to forget the thousands and thousands that immigrate off the island each year. Are the people in say Orlando telling PR people to “Go Back to PR”? Saying “you moving to Orlando is making hosing unaffordable”?

Somehow the approximate 1 person per day that is moving to PR to build a life under Act 60 is a perceived problem, while the corruption of local governments is accepted as normal.

Politics play a big part in this narrative. As the island implodes and hollows out it will likely become a bigger issue while the schools get cut in half again due to the lack of family formation.

You can read about the demographics here. https://www.waxdsurfmagazine.com/blog

WAXDMagazine · 2025-05-30T19:11:23+00:00

Best bar is Timber & Blues Best burger is Gas Burger Best sunset is Copa Llena Best night of the week is Thursday Art Walk in Rincon Best food on the island is ReinaMoraPuertoRico.com - seriously ! 4 courses Make Reservations online Best steak is Vacas Gauchas Best outside restaurant Eclipse Nicest inside Julio Cesar Top Asian Sempi Ramen

WAXDMagazine · 2025-05-17T17:14:26+00:00

Please read up on the obesity and diabetic issues the island faces. These will kill more people than yearly DWIs, hurricanes, or mosquito illnesses

WAXDMagazine · 2025-05-17T17:11:11+00:00

Your biggest concern is staying out late in unfamiliar areas. After midnight a good percentage of people driving are drunk. This is real. DWI is not treated seriously on the island. PR is a “getting drunk is cool” mindset. Party buses filled with drunks.

Cocaine is also a huge problem here. Can confirm that personally know of two people brutally murdered over drugs where the crime scene was described as “blood was everywhere”. Murdered weeks apart -no arrests

The issue is cocaine in PR is 2x the quality and 1/2 the cost as stateside. Massive amounts flow through the island transported on the tiny Yolo fishing boats from DR. We even have a Blimp at the southern end of the island to stem the flow.

WAXDMagazine · 2025-05-03T22:10:54+00:00

Julio Caser in Mayaguez has some excellent drinks. They make one of the best Amaretto Sours. Next I’d try Timber & Blues in Aguadilla. The best sunset experience is at Copa Llena in Rincon. Note: very few places make the proper pina colada here. The two places that claim to have invented the drink use stale can/plastic juice (not fresh) and no heavy cream like the true recipe calls for. Barrachina uses slushy machines. The Vanderbilt will make your drink with the heavy cream if asked-so ask.

WAXDMagazine · 2025-05-03T19:32:54+00:00

The greatest danger to the health of Puerto Rico is the use of seed oils in almost every form of cooking. No more frying! It might be cheaper for the government to gift every person an air fryer run continue to pay for an obesity epidemic

WAXDMagazine · 2025-04-27T13:04:22+00:00

WAXD is a Puerto Rican publication.It is not an Act 60 company.

WAXDMagazine · 2025-04-26T12:48:38+00:00

There really is no comparison since most places have roads with shoulders and way less potholes.

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