The Turks and Caicos Islands main industry for many years was salt raking. The salt is sea salt. After the 1970s, the salt industry here ended. The salina ponds still exsist and one of the windmills has been restored. Not sure how all this works technically, but it looks cool. Sometimes the salinas smell really bad though. They cover a large part of Grand Turk. Flamingos fish in them. Apparently people do too, but I have heard that the fish are not good to eat. I wouldn't eat them!

Wildlife in the Turks and Caicos - Part 2

Yellow Warbler

Flamingo (about 14 of them live on the island)

Donkeys (the black one was born a couple of weeks ago)


Large Hermit Crab (in our yard)

Wildlife of the Turks and Caicos - Part 1

A Male Night Heron

Pounder: A Potcake, local term for a wild dog, but he is not a wild. He is my boss' dog.

Cows that run wild all over the island and in our yard!


A gecko in our house. He is next to a nail head. He was very small.

A Female Nigh Heron

The cows were left on the islands along with donkeys and horses to help with labor and for food during the early years of salt raking. I will post the donkeys later. The cows in this pictures must of come from up from the beach because we have cow guards leading into the neighborhood. More interesting animals to come!

My Abode and my Workplace

A person, who shall remain nameless (you know who you are), requested pictures of the house I am living in and the museum I am working at. The first picture is the house and the second is the museum. The museum looks out over the water! We can see the cruise ships coming in from there.