(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)Just after cruising past the end of the always busy runway at San Juan’s international airport and passing under a couple of noisy roadways that appear to be on a 24/7 rush-hour schedule, we entered a quiet lagoon completely rimmed with thick mangrove forests. We might have been a million miles from civilization. The air was still under gray, early-morning skies that threatened rain, the lagoon’s surface a mirror, as Capt. Omar Orraca and one of his skippers helped six anglers get six kayaks out of the two skiffs and into the water. Someone shouted, “Did you see that tarpon that just rolled?” Within a few minutes, we were working at top speed to gear up and get organized, since we realized now that tarpon were rolling up and down the lagoon — some of impressive size. That ...![02 - 00000000 xx 7612 2b5c4bba6d1c00efd12975f8a987b9b5]()
