Today’s port of call was Grand Turk, the capital of the Turk and Caicos Islands. The island is only 7 miles long, 1 ½ miles wide and has about 6000 people living on the island. Many people had told me about how beautiful the island was and it certainly is beautiful, but completely different that I’d imagined. I’d pictured a lush tropical island, but Grand Turk is all sand, water and salt. The salt industry used to be huge on the island and there are salt water ponds all over it. Because of all of the salt, vegetation cannot survive in [View Full Entry]

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Lots of photos and a few changes... Since we have a good internet connection, we are taking advantage and sending all the photos that we have been saving. We have a good connection because we are weather-bound in the Caicos Islands, so weather-bound that Mark and I will be leaving by plane, not boat… It is 75 degrees outside but there are torrential rain squalls and the winds have been in the 20-30 knots region with big seas as this front comes through, so Paul can’t even think of moving the boat until Thursday, which is our day to return to [View Full Entry]

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Hello families and friends, We are preparing for Captain's dinner, with Mark and Libby's final full day in the Turks and Caicos, British West Indies. What fun we have had, with many adventures. We'll toast you all tonight and hope to see you all soon. Tomorrow we travel.... some east, some west. Will keep you posted on all the latest adventures. Here is a final parting shot of the Banks. [View Full Entry]

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West Caicos: Today, we made the short hop to West Caicos which took about 5 hours. We made this short sail in order to line ourselves up for a proper (and shorter) departure towards Haiti. We left Providenciales around noon and arrived West Caicos at approximately 5:PM. The plan is to set sail at 11:PM tonight in order to arrive in Haiti during daylight hours. Cheers! Annie & Eric www.WeBeSailing.com [View Full Entry]

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Thursday December 7th 2006 www.WeBeSailing.com Providenciales Turks & Caicos This is our 10th day here~~~~~~~ we are not complaining believe me! The weather has been on the hot side with regular tropical shower off and on.. But it’s all great when we hear that there are 3 inches of snow where we live in Montreal. Our crew, Christiane and Benoit, have sadly departed for Montreal on Tuesday morning. We are sure that they had a shock is waiting in Mtl!!!! Snow on the ground to freeze their asses off….. We will be dropping our dock lines today and will set s [View Full Entry]

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Saturday December 2nd 2006 www.WeBeSailing.com Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - Turtle cove marina The Turk & Caicos Islands, a British dependent territory comprising eight islands and some 40 cays. Lie at the southeastern end of the Bahamas. The Islands are generally flat, with rolling hills, with the highest elevation found on Grand Turk at 250 feet. Legend purports the Islands were named from the scarlet dome of the barrel-shaped Turks Head cactus which reminds one of a Turkish fez and the word “cayos” for small islands. The Islands aptly proclaimed, “Beauti [View Full Entry]

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The crossing from Charleston SC to Providenciales in the Turks & Caicos Friday Nov 24th, Saturday Nov 25th, Sunday Nov 26th, Monday Nov 27th & Tuesday Nov 28th Day One: With Annie and our replacement crew and fresh supplies all on board, we dropped our dock lines and sailed away from Charleston South Carolina at 11:30am on Friday Nov 24th. Exiting the harbor entrance will all sails hoisted and setting to sea by just after lunch. With the first obstacle before us, being the Gulf Stream, some 50 nautical miles to our east, and to arrive at the GS by just [View Full Entry]

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Well was another trip to Gibbs Cay“Key”. Gibbs Cay is about a 25 minute ride from Grand Turk. We only go to the Cay on special trips and today was one of them. Well it started off with two dives in the morning in Grand Turk on the Wall. At 9am did our first dive and we the second was done by 12:30pm. After that we all got off and went for something to eat before our big trip out to the Cay. I packed the boat with a cooler full of water, ice and Jon’s world famous Rum Punch. The [View Full Entry]

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Well today was great.. …2 weeks of training and learning to run the boats. My day started off in the morning getting the boats in and ready for the morning dives. Today we have the grand opening of the new Carnival Cruise Lines Terminal in Grand Turk. The day started off great sunny day, no wind, the ship passed right in front of my house approx. 730am. Grand Turk doesn’t have too many tourist walking around but on this day they had ship coming in the total population of the whole island is 3,500 people and just one ship has as [View Full Entry]

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Hi, everyone this is my first blog. Well my trip started 10 months ago in Thailand where I did my training to become a scuba dive instructor and travel the world. Well guess what it happened!!.. I did it and now I’m now in Turks and Caicos Island on a island called the Grand Turk. I came here because I found employment with a dive shop called Blue Water Divers. And to follow my quest of finding year round summer. The Grand Turks Island has about 3,500 people living here in a small community. On the island nothing is grown its [View Full Entry]

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