Awesome stuff GRINGO...thanks for posting and welcome to SFC!!!
I had a friend from El Salvador who was on the Quicksilver crossing boat down there a couple of years ago and SCORED some great surf and free diving etc...
It is on the short list for a visit from us one day...
Ok, glad to oblige. How bout just some images, without all the gringo blather for a change?
View on Water Cay, looking NW toward the reef. Footprints ours and the dogs. Nobody elses.
At the Water Cay side of the "Aquarium". Water was stirred up that day. Visibility usually a LOT better. There's almost a foot of water under the boat.
On Fort George Cay. Some neat cannon on the bottom not far from here.
Donna cut, between Water and Little Water Cays. Named after Hurricane Donna filled it in.( in 1960)
Devil's Cut, flood tide.
Grace Bay toward Leeward, storm coming, and I need to learn to keep my footprints out of frame.
A Caicos Sloop ("Ranger") in Chalk Sound, Providenciales:
South Dock, where the customs house is located. Complete with an impounded Haitian sloop:
La Gringa Suprema with a sweet tasting Cerro Mackerel. Good eating.
One of our frequently spotted neighbors:
First day with new boat. Out of gas. I dropped the hook and waded ashore for help;
Water Cay beach. You can spend the day here without bumping into another person.
Fixing the GPS interface. With boats, there's always something to fix, I notice.
Sunset through a small Whaler bimini:
Cooper Jack Bight. Some really cool caves near here.
Driftwood, obviously. There's tons of the stuff here. I cannot wait until my workshop is completed. I have some plans...
A TCI dredge, six guys and two buckets deepening the fuel dock.
Mo Bo No Go No Mo'.
Man, I think this cat is stoned...
The Herriots were salt merchants on Salt Cay. One of them obviously spent some time here on Sapodilla Hill watching the horizon. The hilltop has hundreds of these. Early sailor graffitti.
A Russian Hydrofoil, sitting in the bushes at Pine Cay. The story is on the blog.
Hey Gringo we look forward to dreaming about lobster on the beach for Christmas...
22 Panga that the boat my best fishing buddy caught all his marlins fishing just with his wife. He had twin 40 yams and pulle 6 rods all day for just a few gallons of gas. SO we expect to see you trawling big lure behind that boat and as you seem to take nice pictures we want to see a close picture of those marlins coming to check the props...
Merry Marlin
love the pics!! I always try and get away to some place warm in the winter, usually Costa RICA, but after seeing your pics I might have to think about going to TCI!! Glad to see you on this site after what happened on the other one!!
We took a camera, a pan and tilt unit, radio control, and a video downlink and attached it to a 6 ft. helium balloon. We ran it up a couple hundred feet, when the air was calm. This doesnt happen often, here. .
This is looking down Pine Cay in the foreground, across Water Cay, and thats Providenciales in the distance.
This is the landing craft making the turn into Pine Cay. Its how supplies are shipped around the islands
Another view over Pine Cay, looking essentially South. Thats a fresh water lake, very rare here, in the foreground. The Caicos Banks, looking toward Hispanola.
The camera setup works pretty well, but we have a problem with wind. A spherical balloon is no good, the drag co-efficient of the sphere, and vortex shedding kills us with motion in winds over about 10 mph. We need a small helium blimp, like those Grand Opening car lot, advertising things, with fins on it. Needs about 3 cu. m. of volume, able to lift about a kg. If anyone has one lying around they aint using....
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