Chilling on the beach, Colada smoothies and crazy amounts of conch...and it's only day 4!

                             

We had planned to go kayaking on day 4 but when we woke up the wind was pretty crazy and it would have made for quite hard work to kayak across the channel, not that you would know it from the pictures of the crazy calm water above! so we opted for a beach day instead, which pleased Jade greatly as it meant Sunny was allowed to come too!

Jade is very well travelled...we made her list today, 34 countries and counting! so for her to say that Provo has the best beaches she has ever seen is a pretty big compliment! in the picture above though it's not hard to see why!

Bang on with our colour co-ordination again! those who've travelled with Jade before will know that posing for this shot was a bit nerve wracking for Jay-dee as it involved climbing over rocks!

Jade's been taking plenty of 'family pics' of the 3 of us while she has been here...

and of course she's been getting involved too! Sunny is one adored potcake! or cake pot as Jade would say!

Jade was so impressed with her first patty she tried the other day that she requested more of them for lunch! This time we went to Chinson's and persuaded Jade to get a chicken loaf instead...and to try some coco bread - both are amazing! and it was nice to sit outside, listen to some Bob and chow down.

Jade's first experience with a drive through atm!

and her first experience with a smoothie from froots! We both opted for the pina colada - and wow I forgot how good those smoothies are, it had been far too long! 

We whizzed back to Pelican Beach in time to catch the Sunset...

that is pure delight on Jade's face right there!

I promise this picture is not fake...it looks like it is but it's just because the colours were so crazy vivid and we managed to catch a particularly amazing sunset that night! 

We ended the night at Da Conch Shack.  Jade was having trouble deciding so she went for the conch combo platter...a great intro to all things conch!

We took a walk on the beach whilst waiting for our food, and were amazed to discover all the conch shells in the sea! 

and here is the pile of discarded conch shells after the conch has been removed...check out the awesome pink colour on the inside of the shell! 

It was a great night...great food, great company, great atmosphere! 

and Jade has definitely become a conch convert! 

Are those pink buoys?

It's been another fun filled weekend here in Providenciales! And we got to tick off some places on our ever growing list of places to visit whilst we are here!

First stop was Flamingo Lake, with not a flamingo in sight we were wondering where the name comes from! It was a very peaceful spot though and By took quite a lot of good shots for his photography website he is nearly done with.

After that we saw a dirt track slope called Harbour View Drive, and since Provo is mostly flat I love any chance we can get to make it to higher ground for the views, so we took a detour to see what we could find. It was pretty funny cause as we drove higher and higher up the hill the ocean suddenly appeared in the distance and I joked with Byron that he better slow down incase it was a sheer drop...as we drove a few more inches we realized it was!! I love the way they don't have any road signs warning you of this!

 We inched along this track overlooking the sea carefully until we reached a dead end. We took some good shots of the ocean and then very carefully reversed along the narrow path with the sheer drop beside us! I was glad I wasn't the one driving!

Flamingo Lake turns into a huge inlet of water known as Juba Sound so we drove around the perimeter of 'the sound' taking in the view when Byron said 'are those pink buoys over there?', as we got closer we realized they were in fact flamingos! They had obviously strayed from their area of the lake! We were pretty excited, the flamingo is actually the national bird of Turks and Caicos but we had been informed you could only find them on Middle Caicos and not on Provo so it was a good little find! They were quite far out in the water so By trekked through some wilderness to get a closer shot, this is as good as we could get. These two were the active ones wandering about whilst the rest slept nearby looking remarkably like buoys! (Here's a random fact, whilst in the UK we pronounce buoy like 'boy', I have learnt here that Americans pronounce them 'boo-ee' it's pretty funny)

By this time the heat was really getting to me, so we decided a refreshing stop at Froots on the way home was just what was needed. This place has the best smoothies around, we got pineapple and coconut ones and they were delish!

Unfortunately after 3 nights of bite free sleep, I naively believed I had become immune to mosquito bites so last night I didn't 'Off myself' before bed and I awoke with 10 new bites this morning! I won't make that mistake again that's for sure!