The Queen’s Garden - A Reef Lost in Time

Beneath the surface of southern Cuba lies a kingdom suspended in time.

Jardines de la Reina, or the Gardens of the Queen, is one of the last places in the Caribbean where sharks still rule the reef and mangroves still pulse with life.

Here, I drifted alongside reef sharks as they weaved through coral gardens untouched by mass tourism. I floated through tunnels of grunts and snappers, their golden scales flashing like confetti in the sunlit shallows. And in the calm stillness of the mangroves, I met a jellyfish — gliding like a ghost between the roots.

In this forgotten paradise, I felt like I was glimpsing the ocean as it once was — and maybe still could be.

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