Here we are again !!!

Hello all of you,Here we are again, it took a while but finally we have everthing setup to start out weblog again.So, where the hell are we ??The Turks & Caicos Islands ...... to be more precise, we live and work on one of the islands Providenciales.The Islands are located just above Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in the Carabien.The North shore looks out over the Atlantic Ocean, the south over the Caribien sea towards Haiti.Around the Island there is a barrier reef stretching out to a maximum of 20 miles out shore. After the reef, a wall... dropping at some points straight down to 6000 feet (2 km). Some parts of this 'reef' just stick out of the sea to form small islands or cays, like French Cay and West Caicos.The diving is almost all wall diving, with the top of the wall varying from 40 feet to max 80 feet (10 meter till 5 meters).Next to all the classical reef fish, we encounter lots of Carabien Reef Shark, Nurse Shark, big spotted Eagle rays, great Barracudas and Hawskbill Turtles.The diving itself is very simple, hardly any currents, dives start immediately under the boats, drop along the wall, follow till someone is on 100 bar (1500 psi), turn the dive, come up the wall, swim back along the top of the wall untill under teh boat again. Can really get lost.Visibility changes from 30 meters and further on good days, and 10 meters plus on bad days.The Island itself is not the classic Carabien Island, although the relaxedatmosphere is still there. The majority of buildings are luxury hotels, beach villas. So no idillic old villages. Lots of big American cars, one good straight road, and the rest just dirts tracks, with lots of loose stones. The prices are European, that is... expensive, beers in a restaurant/bar start at around 4 dollars. A Burger around 12 dollars and up....If you are a beach person this is the place to go to, miles and miles of white sandy beaches, with nobody on there !!! Easy water access, good snorkelling spots, and hardly any waves.