Photos Turks and Caicos Islands. Big Sandy Cay and South Caicos.
Swiftwing
Wed 8 Apr 2009 15:48
 Big Sandy Cay. The first anchorage in the
Turks and Caicos Islands. It is only one mile long but we were happy to tuck in
behind in a freshening Northerly at midnight of our third night at sea from
Puerto Rico.
 The entrance to Cockburn, South Caicos,
the first habitation and twenty five miles North West of Big Sandy Cay. The
water went from eight thousand feet deep to eight feet deep in the space of one
hundred yards.
 Feeling our way gingerly into the
anchorage. The water is so clear that it looks about three feet deep and there
are coral heads about. We anchored in eight feet of water giving 'Swiftwing' one
and a half feet clearance under the keel.
We were glad to be into a flat...not
rolly...anchorage again.
 This is the Harris Corner Store which was
closed for lunch. The building to the right is a government building. The houses
in general were slightly better versions of the store.
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