We woke up to a beautiful day of 78 degrees in Grand
Turk. Brand Turk is the capitol of the Turk
& Caicos Islands. It is a very small
island, measuring only 6.07 miles by 1.6 miles at its widest part.
We have been here before; however we docked at the main town
of Cockburn Town, the capital. Were we
are docked today is a port made by Carnival Corporation for their cruise
ship. They encourage everyone to stay
right in this port, except if you were taking a Carnival tou
Of course, we don’t like ships tours so we rented a golf
cart to go around the island to see the sights ourselves.
We first headed north to Cockburn Town and missed the little
town so after going to the end of the island, we doubled back and found the turnoff
to town. The town is only a couple of
streets and it was fun driving around.
We found a very local restaurant called Barbs and stopped there for
lunch of local seafood
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We also bought Kahula for Barb and from the pictures you can
see how we took it on the ship – we will explain in person.
As the ship sailed at 1:30pm, we were back on ship at
12:30pm and went to our room and then to the buffet to eat.
Ed worked for a couple of hours and then we got ready for
the evening.
Tonight was the first blackjack tournament and Ed didn’t
qualify.
We missed the show because of the blackjack tournament.
Dinner was fun in that a new couple joined the table and
they both are from Poland but have been in the US for 40 years and speak very
good English, with a Polish accent. They
also love to travel so it was fun taking to them.
As always, we then went to the casino where Barb didn’t play
and Ed lost for the first time this trip.
Let’s hope for no more losses!!
We have set sail for Lar Romana, Dominican Republic our next
port of call tomorrow.
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| Ready to go out |
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| Going to tour in our golf cart |
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| It rained on us really hard |
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| Neighborhood pets! |
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| Our tour guide at the National Museum |
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| Of course Barb has to shop |
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| The largest church on the Island |
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| A local street |
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| Barb's |
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| The food was good |
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| The view from the beach |
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| Ed preparing Barb's Kaula |
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| Going out for the evening |
