To South Caicos

Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 16 Mar 2011 23:28
En Route to South Caicos
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Leaving the beautiful beach on Grand Turk. We up anchored and left at 12:45
 
 
 
 
We were anchored in 2.8 metres, we turned and in a boat length were in 6.6 and another in more than Beez could measure, like falling off a wall
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Can I have a Gummy Bear - No "Why" I'll have to chop you off a bit "OK" Obviously the sun has had had an effect on the bears
 
 
 
 
As we approached South Caicos the fish factories in the north came into view (the main work on the island) where they process fish and conch. 
 
 
 
 
South Caicos looked very flat.
 
 
 
 
 
With a mile or so to go the sea suddenly went from very deep to 11 metres in a very short distance, then 4.8. Across the entrance to the bay (3 metres) is a "gateway", from left to right it went long rock - gap - small rock - gap - South Caicos. We entered the bay through the left channel and on seeing a couple of mono hulls and a couple of power boats we were satisfied we could anchor safely. As we entered at half five, we saw a new School for Field Studies and thought we had arrived on a wealthy island - how wrong could we be. Back to the task in hand. On went the forward facing sonar to help us ease out of the main channel now 2.2 metres and cross the very shallow bit to find enough depth to anchor. First time we set the girl eased back to a depth of 0.4, no good for the tidal height. The second attempt we settled in 0.9 metres and that was fine, Bear says we have to get used to this picking our way over coral as we will be doing a lot of it in the Bahamas and we still have to cross the Grand Bank.
 
 
 
 
 
Bear had a swim, checked the anchor - too chilly for me
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ALL IN ALL A NEW ISLAND TO EXPLORE TOMORROW