leaving leeward marina heading out for the middle caicos cave trip with j&b tours...
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a friendly local waving good-bye...looks like a nice beach he's on...
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i believe this is little water cay where the iguanas reside...
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this trip was $150 per person...and it was so worth it...we were on a nice smallish boat with about 8 other people...and captain shaun...
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the white caps off in the distance from the outer reef..you can see it really does a great job protecting these islands from the surf...
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very interesting shipwreck that we'll be visiting on our way back...
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making the turn into the canal between north caicos and middle caicos...the water here gets very shallow...
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extremely shallow...at some points we had to distribute our weight around the boat accordingly...
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looking at north caicos...
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people like to snorkle the mangroves in here...
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lots of catus grow here evidently...
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more boats in the canal...
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i guess these ones don't work anymore...
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a neighborhood on north caicos...
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right on the water...i'll bet it's beautiful to live here
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this guys got his own little dock...
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the limestone is gorgeous...
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mangroves...
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you could stand in this water and it not reach your knees it was so shallow here...
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heading in to this "marina" on middle caicos...
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mr. harvey picked us up in a nice bus for our ride to the caves....
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history of the caves...
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this is the entrance to the caves...
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mosquitos galore out here...but inside none...the bats eat them...
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just inside the entrance...
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mr. harvey...he grew up here on middle caicos and used to play in these caves when he was a small boy...
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evidence of those who had been here long ago...
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they made sure to tell us when we booked the trip that good shoes are needed...this floor can be slippery
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stalagtites and stalamites...
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a window...sort of...
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this is the beginning...it took years and years of dripping minerals to get this big...
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sometimes the dripping just stops and the column never reaches the ceiling...
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evidence of the lucayan indians that dwelled here...
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mr. harvey told us the bats mostly stayed up inside these tubes in the ceiling...
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another of natures windows
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these were the only bats we saw during our tour of the caves...and they never came out to play with us...thank god...
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strange formations...
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it was unbelievable how huge it really was inside...
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this one made it to the top...it took hundreds of years to get there...
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this one hasn't got there yet...
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everyone got flashlights...
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it was just amazing in here...
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they called this the skull...see the face?
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if you click on this picture until it's at it's biggest you can see the drip...the actual making of a stalagtite...or stalamite...
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the indians made a lot of pottery in here...
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the black ceiling is from the fires the indians would make...
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some rooms had no evidence of the fires but did have pieces of pottery laying about...
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the space inside these caves was more than i expected...
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more remnants...
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mr. harvey said they call this one "the brain"....
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