Turks and Caicos

After snorkeling for about an hour, we noticed what looked suspiciously like our hotel room key about 15 feet down on the ocean floor. Huh? Much to Mike's surprise, the key had slid out of [...]

Deep in the mangrove swamps, we spotted lots of baby baracuda, baby puffer fish and baby lemon sharks. The water was so shallow, we grounded the kayak a couple of times and had to get [...]

We kid you not. Once a month, they do a sailboat cruise to catch the GLOW WORMS mating. The phenomenon happens about 4 days after a full moon. Once it gets completely dark, you start [...]

Lizards and geckos are abundant here - at dusk you have to watch your step, because they're out eating sand fleas and mosquitoes (yum). The sign near the beach says "Ring the bell if you [...]

This rather vast sand trap looks like it's decorated with flowers...but on closer inspection, they are actually painted conch shells. Seems like a sacrilege to paint something as naturally beautiful as a conch shell, but [...]

Conch is plentiful here - found on every menu. We've had conch fritters, conch salad, pecan crusted conch, coconut crusted conch, cracked conch and conch wontons. If they had conch ice cream, we'd probably try [...]

Beautiful weather and 84 degree water makes for pretty cushy diving! We saw eagle rays, sting rays, lots of crabs, parrotfish, snapper, baracuda, little fingerprint snails, and garden eels that pop out of the sand. [...]

Turks and Caicos is south of the Bahamas, in the British West Indies, tucked between Cuba and the Dominican Republic. The music is a heavy footed reggae/rap combo, like Jamaica. This guy greeted us at [...]