South Creek Tubing & Beach
South Creek Tubing & Beach
Enjoy your day in Grand Turk and experience the beauty of this island when you go tubing in the only wetlands and then relax at a beautiful beach.
You will be greeted by our welcome team on the beach adjacent to the Grand Turk Cruise Center, about a 5-minute walk from the pier along the beach. After check-in, you will make your way to your open-air, safari truck and after an approximately 10-minute drive you will arrive at the tubing starting point.
Set off on your float (approximately 45-minutes) through the mangroves of this pristine preserve, the South Creek preserve is home to an impressive amount of marine life. It is also an important nursery and a habitat for the juveniles of many species of reef fish. This small wetlands area offers mangroves, sandy channels, and exposed flats at low tide. South Creek also excels as a birdwatching site. Ospreys, reddish egrets, great egrets, tri-colored herons, stilts and terns are common sights. A bit rarer, American kestrels, mangrove cuckoos, yellow-crowned night herons and snowy egrets are also around. Your guide is very knowledgeable and will take the time to provide interesting information regarding the varieties of birds and the sea life in the preserve.
After your time at South Creek, you will re-board your safari truck for the fully narrated drive to Pillory Beach. Once at the beach you will have approximately 1.5 hours, you will receive a sand chair and a bottle of water. The adjacent resort is complete with a beach bar, full service restaurant and restrooms. Found to the north of Cockburn Town, Pillory Beach offers a quiet and sheltered coastline. Considered to be the best diving beach in Grand Turk, and one of the best in the world, Pillory Beach is home to the Bohio Dive Resort. This stretch of water and sand is highly recommended for its powdery sand and smaller waves. Some historians believe that Christopher Columbus made landfall on Grand Turk, and not San Salvador in the Bahamas. This beach is the probable landfall spot (if he did arrive on Grand Turk). Although the name largely didn't catch on, in 1992, Pillory Beach was renamed Guanahani Beach by the Turks and Caicos government in honor of the indigenous Taino's name for the island of Columbus' first land fall in the New World. These conditions support small amounts of reef fish and is interesting to explore. Along the way you may find the occasional coral head or sea fan.
After your time at Pillory Beach, you will make the return to your start-point, the beach next to the cruise center.