Caribbean Photo of the Week: Sunset in Port Salut, Haiti

By: - January 12th, 2014

Above: Port Salut, Haiti

This week’s Caribbean Photo comes from CJ reader Stephanie Leigh Limage of Limage Media Group, who took this snapshot of sunset in Port Salut, Haiti. Do you have a great photo of the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com and it might be the next Caribbean Photo of the Week.

— CJ

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