Three Kings Day (Epiphany, Twelfth Night, Dia de Reyes) is one of the most important of the Christmas holidays in Puerto Rico and much of Latin America. It celebrates the day the three wise men (or kings) in the Christmas story actually arrived in Bethlehem to see the Christ child. In many families, Three Kings is the day for major gift-giving, not Christmas Day. Depictions of the three kings are ubiquitous in Puerto Rican art. Virtually every household has at least one depiction, many homes have many. Three Kings Day also means the Christmas season in Puerto Rico is almost over.
We had to delay our first dive of the year/Marie's birthday dive from New Year's Day until Three Kings Day because of surf in our usual dive sites. (It turns out we could have gone New Year's Day. We looked at the surf reports and made the call to wait. By the time we figured out we could go, it was too late. So much for the surf reports.) We went to a little-use dive site called Rompeolas. It's a small, shallow but really beautiful reef near downtown Aguadilla. It was the first time at that site for both Elaine and Marie. They both loved it. We will go back again.
Six days into the new year and I'm two dives closer to my goal of 500 total dives by the end of 2017.
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