Water Sports

By Mark Parrish, Big Blue Unlimited Intrepid cave diving team John Garvin, Mark Parrish and James Hurley are exploring the underwater cave systems found scattered throughout the Turks & Caicos Islands. One of the most impressive subterranean waterways found so far has been a Blue Hole in North Caicos known as Cottage Pond. In October 2001, an attempt ...

Story and Photos by Claire Stevens Rugby is a hard-hitting game of endurance and grit. Surging adrenaline gives energy-devoured players the power and pace they need to play on. The game famed for the friendships and respect that emerge from tough encounters has firmly established itself here in the Turks & Caicos Islands. People from different ...

Story & Photo by Anthony Taylor “Thank you, we’ve had the most amazing holiday,” writes one person. “The holiday of a lifetime,” writes another. “Our best holiday ever, we don’t want to go home,” writes a third. These are just a small sample of the quotes from the guest book at Villa Vieux Caribe, a five-bedroom villa ...

By Anthony Taylor It’s been some nine years since Florida-based writer Bill Belleville first addressed the issue of eco-tourism in Times of the Islands (Spring 1992). Then he called it “environmental and economic sense” and went on to state, “as this island chain (Turks & Caicos) edges up to a crossroads in its development destiny, it ...

By Anthony Taylor “You should eat something,” said Juan. It was now 2:00 in the afternoon and I’d been feeling sea-sick all morning and not touched a thing. “You’re right. I think I’ll have my banana,” I replied. “Your what? A banana!,” he exclaimed. At that moment the whole crew of Below Me, all seven of them, ...