Caribbean Photo of the Week: On the Beach in Haiti

By: - September 22nd, 2013

The latest edition of Caribbean Photo of the Week takes us to Cap-Haitien and the Cormier Plage, where CJ reader Steph Limage snapped this photo. Do you have a great photo of the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com and it could be the next Caribbean Photo of the Week.

— CJ

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