Instant Reader Report
on Sea Eye Divers / Osprey Beach Hotel in
Turks and Caicos / Grand Turk on
2002/10
by
Jill Guthrie & Mike Webber , BC, Canada
Report Number 030129225135154

 St. Lucia, Cozumel, Big Island of Hawaii, Figi, and British Columbia 

Dive Conditions

Return at 500 PSI.  We generally stay with guide but wondered when ever we
wanted.   

Standard water tub for Camera, dive masters always helped you in and out of
boat and took care to help with camera's etc.  

Overall Rating

Sea Eye Divers dive masters (DM) always asked us where we had been and
tried to take us somewhere new each time.  Most 1st dives were alone with
DM and back to Osprey for SI and then a local retired couple often joined
for 2nd dive.  All dives were over 1 hour and few at 80+ minutes, depths
60 to 100 feet in 1st dives.

Most dives good vis, but due to earlier storms none were great.  Aquarium
- turtles, Tunnels - great swim throughs, Amphitheatre - tight swim thru
(optional of course)and sting rays, and nice wall after long shoot. Finbar
- huge crab and cute porcupinefish. 

Osprey Beach Hotel:  We got one of the newly renovated rooms with four
poster king bed on second floor near bar.  Room was perfect, bright, nice
white tiles, beautiful dark wood furniture with white immaculate linens
and nice deck over white sand beach and azure ocean. Jenny, the owner, was
great, and Allan, the manager (and sometimes cook) ran a fun bar with
locals and guests mingling and the best food on the island.  We did not
take meal plan as like to experiment. Nice to try other places but Osprey
had nicest food in the end.   Courtyard Cafe was great for breakfast and
lunch with nice home made specials daily.

The museum is great, with details on the Molassis Reef Shipreck etc and
talk to the manager, Brian, who knows so much (you catch at the Osprey bar
too)....

GRAND TURK was great, the one thing we recommend is the tourist board push
for a BOTTLE DEPOSIT SYSTEM so everyone will pick up their numerous pop and
beer cans ...easy solution for minimal costs for the one blight we found
when exporing by bike.

 

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