The Turks and Caicos Islands consist of 40 islands and cays with only 8 of them inhibited.  The islands are located 550 miles southeast of Miami, Fla, below the Bahamas Islands, and just east of Cuba and Dominican Republic & Haiti in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.  Grand Turk is the capital island of the Turks and Caicos.  They have an outstanding protected coral reef that drops about 400 feet from the beach.  The sea floor drops 8,000 feet right down where there are beautiful reefs with arched tunnels called Grand Turk Wall.  It is close enough to hire for divers and snorkeled to explore. They have astonishing clear waters and a wide variety of aquatic life.

We love the close view snorkeling provides of the natural beauty of the coral reefs and aqualtic life of the sea. We were pretty excited to hear that the island offered the “Power Snorkel Adventure” excursion.  This is a snorkeling experience like something out of a James Bond movie.  Unfortunately the excusion was cancelled due to the weather.So instead, we walked into 31/2 feet of sea water.  We fed cake to large schools of yellow and black, blue and black, blue and white and silver spotted tropical fish as they were swimming around the reef.  It was an amazing aquatic experience.

The Islands’s National Park Services have set aside and protected breeding grounds of for more than 170 species of birds Dom Pelicans, Flamingoes, Osprey, Cuban Crows, Great Blue Herons, Egrets, Terns, Fligates, Boobies; to name a few. They have wild Pink Flamingos in a tidal flat called Flamingo Pond.

We spent a day snorkeling at Gibbs Bay.  It was fantastic!