Turks and Caicos Bank - Changing Colours

Tashi Delek
Mike & Carol Kefford
Thu 5 Apr 2012 21:51

Zoom in on Google Earth and you will see the Turks and Caicos Bank.  Indeed you will see the coral reefs and shallows all around the islands in this part of the world. 

 

We knew from the charts that the depth changed rapidly from hundreds of metres to just a few but we hadn’t really understood just what that would look like.  As we were sailing across the bank we could see the deep water as a dark blue stripe across the horizon….

 

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Then it gets really interesting as you go across………..

 

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There was another reef touching the surface not far from where we left the Turks and Caicos bank so the water was everything from dark blue, via azure to white……

 

 

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