About Cockburn Town

Cockburn Town is a short walk from our bungalow. It is old and colorful. Here is the post office, where I bought souvenir stamps.

And the market. (Paul is sitting on the back of the pickup truck which the dive shop used to drive us home after snorkeling yesterday. It's not every day you get to drive around in the back of a pickup truck! Very exciting.)

There are many beautiful flowers, their colors nicely complemented by the blue of the sky and the sea.

This is Front Street. You come out of our bungalow, and turn left to get to two of the nearby restaurants or right to walk into town or the Salt Raker Inn, the source of Paul's morning bagel and peanut butter (God bless them!)

Cockburn Town is known for its wild donkeys, roosters, and stray dogs (which are all very nice doggies.)

There are many lovely homes and many "vision wanted" properties. Businesses and homes come and go with the hurricanes.

Bikes, walking, pickup trucks and jeeps are the main forms of transportation. I love seeing people riding bikes carrying groceries and such.

Today we are leaving and flying to Providenciales. Everyone says "it's another world over there." We'll say goodbye to picturesque Cockburn Town and hello to Provo and its tourist beach scene. Only "three more sleeps" in Turks & Caicos; oh no!