WELCOME TO GRAND TURK CITO & SOUVENIR! 1230-130PM Cache In Trash Out® Event
ONESPIRIT555: ARCHIVING AS PER PROTOCOL
WELCOME TO GRAND TURK CITO & SOUVENIR! 1230-130PM
Hidden
:
Thursday, April 27, 2017
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(other)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
Grand Turk CITO and WELCOME EVENT! SOUVENIR included! Come join our CASTAWAY CACHERS Geocaching Cruise Group for some cleanup from 1230PM to 130PM at the Port. Gloves, bags and hand sanitizer will be provided. Drawing at end.
Grand Turk is the capital island of the Turks and Caicos and home to a state of the art luxury cruise ship center. It is here that Christopher Columbus first made landfall on his initial voyage to the New World in 1492. Almost 500 years later, US astronaut John Glenn “discovered” Grand Turk himself, after he became the first American man to orbit the earth. Long before Christopher Columbus first set foot on the capital island of Grand Turk during his discovery voyage of the new world in 1492, the islands of the Turks & Caicos were inhabited by Taino and Lucayan Indians. These original settlers left a rich heritage of seafaring, salt raking and farming, which still lingers on today. Words such as “canoe”, Caribbean and “caicos” are derived from the Arawak language. Even the name of the country comes from these earliest inhabitants. Turks is a reference to the indigenous Turk’s head cactus and Caicos is from the Lucayan term “caya hico” meaning string of islands. Turks & Caicos is quickly becoming a leading international investment center for the offshore investor. The islands are a “zero tax” jurisdiction and therefore have no taxes on income, capital gains, corporate profits, inheritance or estates. Diving and beaches are popular here. Another peculiarity that has been passed down through the generations is a love of shellfish, particularly conch – which is actually available in abundance to this day, thanks to the work of the Caicos Conch farm, the only commercial conch farm in the world.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
RAQ BS ENZC
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures