Swimming in a sea of myths

MYTH: It’s only for beach bums. REALITY: The Caribbean is full of health nuts and athletes. Wind drives the board sports action in and around Puerto Rico’s Rincón, on Panama’s Bocas Del Toro islands, on the east and south coasts of Barbados, and on the kite beaches of the Dominican Republic’s Cabarete and Guadeloupe’s Le Moule. Flex your endurance roping down Martinique’s rain-forested, river-gorged mountainsides. Join a Sunday workout with Hike Barbados or Puerto Rico’s Panoramic Hike, a 165-mile east-west route covered over consecutive Sundays in February and March. Dominica is bush-whacking the Waitukubuli National Trail, linking waterfalls, lakes, Carib tracks, maroon hideouts, and interior villages in a 114-mile cross-island network. St. Lucia’s Forest and Lands Department and local guides make anything possible, even scaling Mount Gimie, the island’s highest peak.
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MYTH: It’s only for beach bums.

REALITY: The Caribbean is full of health nuts and athletes. Wind drives the board sports action in and around Puerto Rico’s Rincón, on Panama’s Bocas Del Toro islands, on the east and south coasts of Barbados, and on the kite beaches of the Dominican Republic’s Cabarete and Guadeloupe’s Le Moule. Flex your endurance roping down Martinique’s rain-forested, river-gorged mountainsides. Join a Sunday workout with Hike Barbados or Puerto Rico’s Panoramic Hike, a 165-mile east-west route covered over consecutive Sundays in February and March. Dominica is bush-whacking the Waitukubuli National Trail, linking waterfalls, lakes, Carib tracks, maroon hideouts, and interior villages in a 114-mile cross-island network. St. Lucia’s Forest and Lands Department and local guides make anything possible, even scaling Mount Gimie, the island’s highest peak.