Old Sugar Cane Pier — Attraction in Puerto Rico

Every review and reddit post says the snorkeling here is grand. There's very little wake, but so much junk in the water visibility is very minimal.

Great sea grass and there was certainly large fish looking in and out. Not sure what else was on there.

Gunk on sand on the shore. Lots of glass and pop tops. Once in, there's a shelf of rocks and shells for a few feet, then about six feet of soft sand before the sea grass bed kicks in.

Presumably, many different species along the old pier.

Visibility was so low and the water so cloudy with dead coral and brown gunk, it wasn't comfortable for my taste in a new location. Maybe on...

At one time, the island of Vieques had sugar plantations, a sugar mill, and three train depots. The trains would get the sugar cane from the plantations and take them to the mill. Once the cane was refined into sugar, it would be taken by train to this pier to be shipped to San Juan for exportation to New York, New Orleans, or Boston. Now it is just an interesting old shell where kids swim &...

I stopped here after having explored the old sugar mill ruins as it felt like this was the last piece of the sugar mill industry here. There wasn’t much to it, but it was a gorgeous place to just appreciate the beauty of this island. I’m interested to know if there are pictures of the pier when it was operational, as there is no information...