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Our kids were really excited when they heard Ron explain our vacation plans at the dinner table. Ron said he had booked us for a week into a hotel in Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos and had arranged for day trips to see the other islands in the group like Middle Caicos, West Caicos and Grand Turk. May be, on our visit to Grace Bay beach, we would be able to see Jojo the friendly wild dolphin. Ever since they had seen photographs of a prime sand-dollar hunting spot near George Cay in the Turks and Caicos taken by a friend, they had been pestering us to go there.
Oh, they had lots of plans. They had heard stories from their friends about snorkeling in the islands, and they had seen the colorful shells and sand dollars their friends had collected. So they went on the net, searched several websites and came up with a list things that they wanted to do and the places they wanted to see, including of course, some of the prime sand-dollar hunting spots in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Not that I was not interested. I was as eager to explore the beauty of the marine world and swim among the colorful fish and the beautiful corals and sponges. Naturally, I intended to collect some sand dollars as souvenirs when we visit the prime sand-dollar hunting spot.
Once we were there, we signed up for some snorkeling lessons in the pool with the hotel’s dive operator. The kids seemed to have no problems learning to snorkel; they took to it like ducks to water, I must say. I was not as confident as they were, but we joined a group of snorkeling debutants for whom the dive operator had organized a trip to a prime sand-dollar hunting spot near Pine Cay.
