Resort Report

  • Creatures from the Black Lagoon December 17, 2024
    Part 1:  The Medusa Worm (Synaptula hydriformis) Story & Photos By Eric S. Cole, Biology Department, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota Trigger warning: this creature’s habits are so foreign, they may offend the senses. One of the most marvelous life-forms I’ve encountered in both The Bahamas and Turks & Caicos islands is a tiny sea cucumber named Synaptula ...
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  • A Fearless Powerhouse December 17, 2024
    Getting to know the damselfish. Story & Photos By Kelly Currington Peering out the window on approach to the Turks & Caicos Islands you are greeted by the most brilliant turquoise water anywhere. This sight is mesmerizing on its own, but what lies beneath the initial beauty is even more alluring, an alien world of beautiful, exciting, ...
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  • Bringing Dignity to Aging December 17, 2024
    Charity  on North and Middle Caicos attends to the needs of the elderly. By Jody Rathgeb ~ Photos By Tom Rathgeb On the surface, sitting on the porch and watching the world go by seems a fitting way to rest after a life of hard work, or to give oneself time to heal after an accident or ...
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  • Breathing New Life into South Caicos December 17, 2024
     Salterra’s visionary leader is a trailblazer in sustainable development. By Davidson E. Louis ~ Photos By Peter Wagner Michael Tibbetts, an eighth-generation Caymanian, is not only a steward of island heritage but also a trailblazer in sustainable development. From his early roots in the Cayman Islands to his groundbreaking work in South Caicos, Michael’s story is one ...
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  • Survivors of WW II Submarine Attacks Rescued September 20, 2024
    The remarkable brush of a lifeboat with the Mouchoir Banks and TCI. Story & Illustrations By Eric Wiberg & Andrew Warren In previous editions of Astrolabe we documented how, from over 130 ships attacked around Turks & Caicos Islands and The Bahamas during World War II, at least 72 survivors landed in the TCI and a further ...
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  • Blue Hills Back in the Days September 20, 2024
    The beginning of remarkable change. Story & Photos By Richard Grainger The article in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Times of the Islands, “Blue Hills—An Authentic Seaside Settlement,” reminded me of my first visit to Blue Hills in 1971. At that time, it was the name of the entire island of Providenciales, not just one settlement. It ...
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  • Shifting Sands September 20, 2024
    An itinerant shipping container. By John Charles Hopkins Barrels, bottles, buckets, buoys, cargo slings, coconuts, crates, nets, planks, poles, roots, rope, sea grass, seaweed, stumps, and tree trunks: an alphabet of flotsam abounds along the shores of Bay Cay and other outlying barrier islands that flank North Caicos.  The locus is Spanish Point where the Caicos Bank protrudes ...
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  • The Awakening September 18, 2024
    Twilight on the reef is a magical time. Story & Photos By Kelly Currington The Turks & Caicos Islands are famous for the powder-white, sugar-sand beaches and stunning turquoise water; they attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the country every year. For divers, it’s the wonders of what lies beyond where sand meets sea and beneath ...
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  • Forty Years and Counting September 18, 2024
    Heritage straw work carries cherished memories. By Diane Taylor I carried very little when I left my home on Pine Cay in the early 1980s. At one time, people who felt an emotional attachment to the county or land they had to leave took with them a handful of earth to cherish as fond memory of paths ...
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  • Happy as a Clam September 18, 2024
    Getting the edge on seagrass meadows. By Natalie Ritter (The School for Field Studies), Violet Apodaca (Bowdoin College), Kira Kaplan (Smith College), Lily Marynik (Wellesley College), Sophie Moniz (Connecticut College), Rory O’Connor (Lehigh University), Paul Stanley (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Aliya Swearngin (Grinnell College) Edited by Dr. C.E. O’Brien, The School for Fields Studies, Center for ...
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  • Humans, Birds, and the TCI September 17, 2024
    Our “feathered friends” are an important indicator of environmental health. Story & Photos By Dolly Prosper, DECR Environmental Officer: Terrestrial Ecologist Humans have always been fascinated with our avian neighbours. Throughout history, the relationship between humans and birds has been multifaceted, encompassing utility, symbolism, and mutual benefit. The genesis of our intricate bond was due to caloric ...
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  • A Hodgepodge Masterpiece September 17, 2024
    Getting to know the Shortnose Batfish. By Kelly Currington One of the amazing things about scuba diving is that every time you enter the ocean you have a good chance of seeing a creature you’ve never seen before. It’s always exciting when that happens! There is no shortage of odd or weird looking inhabitants on the reef, ...
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  • The Legend of Captain Kidd September 17, 2024
    A tale told by the “Old Time” men of Blue Hills. By Jim Brown Before the days of cable television and YouTube videos, folks would swap stories as the evening’s entertainment. What follows is a “tall tale” about lost treasure that might have been whispered around the glow of an oil lamp in the Blue Hills of ...
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  • Caring for Beasts of Burden July 3, 2024
    Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue films donkeys in TCI. Story & Photos By Mark S. and Amy Meyers Donkeys never asked to be brought to the Caribbean, the Far East, Europe, or even Australia. They were quite content living in Africa. Domesticated around 5000 BCE by the Egyptians and Mesopotamians, donkeys were quickly traded throughout the civilized world, ...
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  • Designed to Be Different July 3, 2024
    Ocean Breeze Resort, North Caicos By Jody Rathgeb ~ Photos By Tom Rathgeb If resorts could talk, most of them would say many of the same things, touting their international flair, luxury settings and “perfection in paradise.” Ocean Breeze Resort speaks of something different. This new boutique resort in the Turks & Caicos would say, simply, “This ...
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My favorite nature photographer Marta Morton took this lovely image of a passionflower growing by the sea. Marta and her family run Harbour Club Villas ( www.harbourclubvillas.com), a peaceful enclave on the south side of Providenciales. It offers her a variety of opportunities to photograph TCI’s “Beautiful by Nature” landscape.

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