Blue on blue

Monday afternoon after New Year's day we arrived at North Caicos Island.  It's a direct flight from JFK to Providenciales, the most populated (and popular) island in Turks and Caicos. Fifteen minutes by taxi to a twenty minute ferry ride gave us our first glimpse of the turquoise water and deep blue sky.  Another fifteen minutes and we reached our hotel on Whitby Beach, a seven mile long stretch of white sand beach.

 The beach looked like this -- deserted -- most of the time.  We got into the habit of counting how many people we would pass on a three hour walk (12 one day, 16 another).  Most of the time it was just us, the white sand, the blue sky and clouds, and the water, which changed color depending on the sun, the wind, and whatever lay below.

If you like walking on a beach, and swimming in the warm sea, then North Caicos Island is the place for you.  It may not be the best place if you like to lie on the beach for hours -- it was sometimes windy and sometimes the bugs were nibbling.   This definitely is not the right place if you are looking for night life; the place was so untouristed that we had to order our dinner at the hotel restaurant by mid-afternoon to be sure they would have food for us.  But everytime we looked up we saw the beautiful sea and sky.

There were some other colors.  We found amazing conch shells and some huge starfish both in and out of the water (how great is it that the latinate name is Asteroidea?).  We threw this one back in.  Bon voyage!

Sunrises and sunsets gave us some other colors to contrast with the blues

as did the local flora.

But mostly it was sand, sea and sky.  I have never seen so many shades of blue at one time.  Let's go back soon !!