{"id":1156,"date":"2010-03-30T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T02:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2010-04-04T06:43:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T11:43:06","slug":"grand-turk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Grand Turk"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I am in the Turks & Caicos Islands, more specifically on the island of Grand Turk which is the capital.\u00a0 There are only +-5000 people who live on this island.<\/p>\n

Getting to Grand Turk was half the fun. Flight from Miami to Providenciales (“Provo”); no big deal.\u00a0 Then a flight from Provo to Grand Turk via Air Turks & Caicos.\u00a0 Very fun!<\/p>\n

Here is our plane, a very old De Havilland Twin-Otter<\/p>\n

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Here is our pilot. I kid <\/strong>you not! (pun intended) \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 This pilot was not more than 18.\u00a0 (edit: Debby from Air TC left me a comment. The Pilot’s name is Captain Thomas and he is 23!\u00a0 Thanks for letting me know.\u00a0 In any case he did a great job!)<\/p>\n

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My view of the cockpit from my seat … no door! Great view of the whole flight.<\/p>\n

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The first thing that struck me once in Grand Turk was the amount of livestock roaming around.\u00a0 Especially the amount of donkeys. At one point I counted 8 around the hotel where I was staying.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the beasts roaming around the island.<\/p>\n

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On the hotel grounds, there were also quite a few cats & dogs roaming around freely. They seem to “belong” there since the dogs all had collars.\u00a0 I approached some of the dogs and must say that they were some of the kindest souls I have even come in contact with.\u00a0 Here is “Savage” getting petted while I had breakfast at the restaurant overlooking the beach.<\/p>\n

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Of course great place for going to the beach, unfortunately I had little time for that a part for a swim after work.<\/p>\n

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Lovely sunsets also.<\/p>\n

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A quick update about the Apoise, the luxury yacht I featured below. It sold today for 46M$US which according to the site superyatchs.com is a bargain! The estimated value was around 87M$.\u00a0 Good deal for the British citizen (no name given) who purchased it. Click on link below for more details.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.superyachts.com\/news\/superyacht-auction–apoise-sold-for-dollar46-million-496.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Note: If you tried to add a comment in the last two weeks or so you noticed that it did not work.\u00a0 All fixed now.\u00a0 Thanks to Yves for letting me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I am in the Turks & Caicos Islands, more specifically on the island of Grand Turk which is the capital.\u00a0 There are only +-5000 people who live on this island. Getting to Grand Turk was half the fun. Flight from Miami to Providenciales (“Provo”); no big deal.\u00a0 Then a flight from Provo to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}