Southern Shores

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A flat calm day on the south side of Providenciales and the entrance to the Marina at Harbour Club Villas.

Most of our island visitors miss the most beautiful and tranquil side of the island where you will find Harbour Club Villas and Marina. The shoreline is absolutely beautiful with waters that are shallow and numerous beaches where you can walk for a long ways out before it gets deep. This area off shore is called the Caicos Banks, the domain of the bonefish and flats as far as you can see. The ocean doesn’t get deeper than 15 to 20 feet and as you skim over the surface, you’ll see the bottom not too far below. Here are some of my favourite photos of the area known as Turtle Tail just by the villas at Harbour Club.

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Fishing flats down on Turtle Tail about a mile from Harbour Club.

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Wade the waters of Juba Salina in search of bonefish.

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Views overlooking the turquoise waters of the South side of Provo

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Tidal beaches on Cooper Jack Bight are within a kayak ride from Harbour Club’s villas.

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Take a kayak out and explore the tidal beaches near the villas and just outside the Marina channel.

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Turquoise blue waters that are crystal clear and shallow.

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A lone fisherman motors home as the sun sets.

Hope to see you staying with us at Harbour Club Villas and Marina……we’ll show you our beautiful piece of paradise with numerous beaches and all kinds of sights to see. We’ll point you in the right direction.

 

Marta

 

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Birds at Harbour Club Villas

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A beautiful Bahama Woodstar hummingbirds flies to the Dwarf Poinciana flowers for nectar.

Activity around the pool at Harbour Club Villas has been amazing. I sit there often trying to capture all our birds coming in to feed from the variety of flowering plants. Our villa guests too are taking photos of the Hummingbirds and Bananaquits that are always there twittering and flying from perch to perch. Our resident Green Heron often comes for drinks and preens himself by the pool. He’ll squawk at you if he doesn’t like you enjoying “his” private pool!! We have Mourning Doves that peck at the gravel under the neem trees at the top of the driveway. They must be finding food there and also seen this week was the Northern Mockingbird.

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Pretty little bananaquit sitting in our Tamarind tree…see the fruit…….found in my favourite Worcestershire Sauce.

 

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We see Mourning Doves every day pecking at something underneath the neem trees.

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The Northern Mockingbird is locally called “Preacher Bird”

 

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Our resident Green Heron preening and grooming by what he thinks is his own private swimming pool!

 

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The Island Honeysuckle attracts many birds to our pool area at Harbour Club Villas.

 

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My first sighting of a Cuban Crow in one of our Palm trees……uncommon to see on Provo and has a bizarre gobbling cackle which is how I tracked him down at the villas.

 

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A baby Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher just learning to fly……….so cute!

 

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The Gray Kingbird comes to the Turks and Caicos to breed in the summertime.

 

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The American Kestrel known as Sparrowhawk is commonly seen here year round.

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The Yellow Warbler male has reddish brown streaks and lives and breeds in the Turks and Caicos year round.

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And just because I love them so much, another photo of the Bahama Woodstar hummingbird that guests can watch daily by the pool at Harbour Club Villas.

Birdwatchers have so many birds they can see when on holiday and staying at Harbour Club Villas. The surrounding area has other water birds as well so have those cameras ready!