Category: Water Activities

Running directly alongside Grand Turk’s historic capital, Cockburn Town Beach combines beautiful turquoise Caribbean water with centuries of island history in a setting that is genuinely distinctive and unlike anything else in Turks & Caicos. Colourful colonial-era Bermudian architecture, historic salt warehouses, waterfront roads, and calm clear seas create a charming and characterful backdrop that…

The Cruise Center Beach is the first beach most visitors to Grand Turk encounter — the stretch of coastline immediately adjacent to the cruise port that transitions from a rockier bottom near the pier into progressively better sand and water conditions as you walk north toward Governor’s Beach. While not Grand Turk’s finest beach in…

Governor’s Beach is objectively the finest beach on Grand Turk and one of the most beautiful on any of the outer islands — a wide strip of powder-soft white sand with a light peach hue, impossibly clear shallow water, and a thick casuarina grove providing shade along the shore. Located between the Grand Turk Cruise…

Shark Bay — known locally and officially as Gannaway Bay — is one of South Caicos’ most rewarding snorkelling destinations on calm days, offering varied and vibrant marine life in a setting that is dramatically more remote and untouched than anything on Providenciales. The bay takes its informal name from the nurse sharks that are…

Valley Bay Beach is another of the larger beaches on South Caicos’ rugged eastern coastline — a secluded and beautiful stretch of coast set within the dramatic landscape of limestone cliffs and rolling hills that defines this side of the island. The beach sits in the same remote eastern corridor as Highlands Bay and offers…

Cove Beach is a calm and sheltered bay on South Caicos that Visit TCI rates alongside Salterra Beach and Long Beach as one of the island’s finest swimming beaches. Protected from the open ocean swell, the cove offers quiet, crystal-clear water in an intimate and secluded setting — equally suited to relaxed swimming, kayaking, and…

Why Go — For some of the most extraordinary and dramatic water colours in all of Turks & Caicos — a natural spectacle at the northern tip of South Caicos that is worth the journey entirely on its own terms. Plandon Cay Cut is not a traditional beach destination in the usual sense — it is…

Long Beach is South Caicos’ signature beach and the largest stretch of sand on the island — a wide, open expanse of powdery white sand and brilliant turquoise water along the southeastern coastline that manages to feel genuinely enormous even by Caribbean standards. The residential community of Sailrock sits along the beach, but the shoreline…

Salterra Beach is the finest and most accessible beach on South Caicos — a beautiful, quiet stretch of white sand and shallow turquoise water on the island’s southern coast, sheltered by a barrier reef sitting roughly 2,000 feet offshore. The Salterra Resort & Spa is the only property on the beach, which gives the coast…

Three Marys Cays is a small group of limestone ironshore islands just off the north coast of North Caicos and the island’s most viable beach snorkelling site. When wind and ocean conditions are calm, the underwater landscape around the cays offers colourful reef fish, sea fans, crabs, and small amounts of coral in a setting…