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Family expedition to Little Water Cay this morning to see the iguanas. This one looked particularly learned, like he had the secret to everything. #tci #beautifulbynature #iguana #littlewatercay #tcinationaltrust (at Providenciales, Turks And Caicos Islands)
The effect of a dolphin. Trying to teach these two how amazing, how important, our oceans are. Hopefully their generation can look after it better than ours. (at Providenciales, Turks And Caicos Islands)
Magical time this morning with the kids - their first encounter with dolphins. Apologies for the shoddy framing - filming at arms reach from a kayak! #tci #jojothedolphin #beautifulbynature #slowmo #herodaddy (at Providenciales, Turks And Caicos Islands)
"Small boy stares down pelican". Two things the hurricanes have not been able to damage (other than the amazing spirit of the people here) are the stunning colours and my sons insatiable obsession with chasing birds. #tci #tcistrong #openforbusiness (at Providenciales, Turks And Caicos Islands)
It's funny. All my life I've been in love with the ocean and everything in it (apart from human filth of course), but if my kids ask me what my favorite sea creature is my answer has always been a manta ray, or a hammerhead. Never a dolphin. I've always thought of them as the Disney of sea creatures; there's nothing wrong with Disney but I'd take a shark any day of the week and twice on Sundays. What's funny is how an experience can change your opinion. Today was that experience, with the wise old #jojo the dolphin. What a majestic creature and what a magical encounter. Apologies for the green line through the video - you can blame @gopro for that! (at Providenciales, Turks And Caicos Islands)
Today, we had another first. And what better first to have on World Sea Turtle Day than Bear’s first sighting of one of our beautiful Green Turtles in Grace Bay. Little intrepid explorer Bear, on daddy’s back, out at sea, watching a turtle surface only a few feet in front of him. All we need now is to find a mask that will fit his little chubby marshmallow face (and to teach him to swim) and we’ll be sorted! Family snorkeling adventures aplenty...
Well, I suppose it's about time I did one of these. We set this page up to record our family's journey through life in this faraway place and I can think of no better 'first' to record than Badger's first day at school. She's joined the senior kindergarten class at the TCI International School. That's the year below the first year proper of junior school, and a year ahead of where she should be for her age. I'm pleased to say she's settled in well, and whilst she can be clingy in the mornings she's adapted brilliantly to school life, earning a Superstar certificate in her first week. The school teaches the UK curriculum but seems different from my memories of junior school - she has PE, swimming, music, computing, French (twice a week!) and has already started to learn to read (in English!). This term's topic has been dinosaurs and she's off on a field trip this week to some nearby islands to see the indigenous iguanas. Anyway, we couldn't be more proud. Meanwhile, Bear is progressing with his words and is well on the way to counting to ten. Still prefers to shout "gecko!" though! DG
Another Sunday, another sunset, another family dinner on grace bay.
Daddy got around to buying some fins, so the diving-down-to-see-things-better-and-forgetting-to-leave-a-bit-of-breath-to-get-back-to-the-surface has commenced.
Season's greetings
Now then, it’s been a while since I stuck some musings on here, and about time I did so.
We’re well into our second month on our little island in the Atlantic and I’m pleased to report that things are going swimmingly. Quite literally swimmingly in fact, because Badger has learnt to swim! Funny what spending every day in either the sea or the pool will do for you. Bear is a little more reluctant, and prefers to run around the pool (STOP RUNNING!) rather than get in it. It is a bit on the chilly side to be fair.
What else have we been up to? Here’s what I can remember....
- Bear has finally decided to try the whole speaking thing out, and is rapidly building a sizeable vocabulary, starting with ‘GECKO!!!!’ and ‘DIGGER!!!!”
- Badger’s letters and numbers are coming on nicely, although she’s still not sure which hand to write with
- I’ve settled in to life at work and played in a golf tournament with the firm (we won’t talk about where we finished; we had fun and that’s all that matters)
- We’ve got our first shipment down from the US to stock up for Christmas (Amazon’s shareholders can breathe easy), including a Christmas tree, some presents for the kids (just in case Santa can’t find us), and some nice wooden pegs for Mrs Badger and Bear
- We’ve finally been granted a work permit, so we’ll soon be able to open a bank account, buy a car, ship our stuff from the UK.....and stop Mrs B&B from panicking quite so much
We’ve seen turtles, eagle rays, evil barracudas, pelicans and the odd mosquitch (Badger’s word for cockroach). The sun has shone. The rest of the family look like they’re sponsored by Ronseal whilst I’m sporting the classic office tan.
Here’s to a good Christmas to end 2016 for one and all, and an exciting 2017 (including school for Badger!). Have a good one folks.
DG.
Fantastic night last night raising money for the Turks & Caicos Aids Awareness Foundation. $50k raised in one night, thanks in no small part to an incredible $10k bid for the 20-1 rank outsider in the last race. Bidders get to name their horses, and have them called by Larry Collmus, commentator on NBC for the Triple Crown. Anyway, here's the last race - the $10k horse was named Shrimpy. You'll never guess what happened next...
A fine way to end the weekend!
If anyone has been wondering why we've moved our family across the globe, this may answer some questions. This is my (and hopefully our!) happy place. Rum punch helps too.
Another couple of close encounters with a turtle this morning (two in fact). Really is a magical experience. [1 of 2]
Another couple of close encounters with a turtle this morning (two in fact). Really is a magical experience. [2 of 2]
Poor visibility, overcast weather, first time using the camera, no fins on and video compressed for sharing, but you get the idea. One snorkel, one turtle! Plus lion fish, trigger fish, puffer fish, school of bat fish, snappers, tangs, and a parrot fish munching on the coral. 😁
Not a bad spot for a bit of brunch...