Turks & Caicos Islands

April, 2005

Below are pictures from the April 2005 trip to the Turks & Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.

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Peacock flounder

Nassau grouper

Spotted moray

Crab

Tiger grouper

Nice swimthrough on the Grand Turk wall

Grand Turk

Grand Turk

Hogfish

Juvenile spotted drum

Porcupine fish

A butterfly fish with an isopod

Turtle

Turtle

Bridled burfish

Stoplight parrotfish

Blenny

Bar jack

Smooth trunkfish and a blackbar soldierfish

Porcupine fish

A nurse shark sleeping on the bottom

Nurse shark closeup

So much for that nap!

Harlequin bass

Smooth trunkfish

Nassau grouper

Smooth trunkfish

Smooth trunkfish

Spotted drum

Two garden eels peek out of their holes

Tiger grouper

A trumpetfish hangs out in the coral

Cowfish

Gray angelfish

Longsnout butterflyfish

Trumpetfish

Trumpetfish

Pederson cleaning shrimp

Sand diver

Sand diver

Harlequin bass

Spotted trunkfish

Spotted trunkfish

The Grand Turk coast

Peacock flounder

Peacock flounder

Huge lobster spotted on the dive site "Aquarium" in Grand Turk

Crab

Banded butterflyfish

A pair of flamingo tongues on a piece of coral

Whitespotted filefish

Princess parrotfish

Spotted trunkfish

A black durgeon and other fish hang around a coral head

The Three Amigos chill by the waterside

A swimthrough on the wall in West Caicos with an old anchor embedded in it

Bridled goby

Whitespotted filefish

Banded coral shrimp

Arrow blenny

Sponge coral

A school of jack

Sponge coral

Nurse shark

Crab

Barracuda

Stingray

Stingray

Stingray

Foureye butterflyfish

Looking down the wall to a shelf below

The wall

Flamingo tongue

The view outside our hotel in Turtle Cove, Provo

The waters off West Caicos

A pair of sand divers

A pair of sand divers

Foureye butterflyfish

Sponge coral

Sponge coral

Stoplight parrotfish

Harlequin bass

Sponge coral

Gray angelfish

Brain coral

A reef shark - barely visible in the murk

A green moray with a tiny cleaning shrimp on its face

Green moray

Goldentail moray

Providenciales

Turtle Cove marina at sunset

The restaurant Magnolia

Coney

Indigo hamlet

An interesting piece of coral

Green moray

An irridescent sponge coral laced with brittlestars

Crab

Spanish lobster

Sponge coral

Sponge coral

Lobster

Spotted moray

Scrawled filefish

A lobster walking around

A stingray searching for mollusks

A pair of flying gurnard

A pair of flying gurnard

A pair of flying gurnard

A pair of flying gurnard

The interior of the island of Providenciales

 

Last modified: 10/18/2005