Caicos bank

Caicos islands have a huge but shallow sandbank on their south side (turkish color). The water is only 3 meter deep, bottom the brightest white fine sand dotted with coral heads (uncharted patches of coral reaching almost to the surface). The waters are full of life, dolphins, reef fish of thousand kinds, sharks and rays. And there is no swell! A very bizarre landscape to go sailing and snorkeling with a keel boat...

On the surface there is nothing else to photograph except ship wracks. The depth of the water can be read by the color of the surface (when sun in your back)

Caicos has the richest birdlife we have seen since Scotland, pelicans, flamencos, turns and something like hybrids of a seagull and parrot

Kiwi on her 40 nm passage over the sand bank. Caicos bank is a good reminder of the fact that it isnt really necessary to have all those hundreds of meters of water under your keel. Half a meter is enough. When there is no waves, that is, and none of those sandbanks decided to go drifting and if you have a qualified man in the pulpit interpreting the ocean color...