Great Inagua

Our original plan was to keep going SE to Mayaguana, but we were getting really tired of having our bow in the wind.  After looking at the charts, we thought why not go down to see the flamingos in Great Inagua, then to Turks and Caicos.  If you look at a map, Mayaguana is SE, but Great Inagua is SW and from there T&C's are NE, so we would finally be able to sail and not beat!  It didn't work out that way, but I guess you have to learn sometime.  Great Inagua is 40nm east to west and 26nm north to south and almost completely surrounded by reef.  It's only settlement is Mathew Town and it the source of raw product for Morton Salt.  Over a million tons of it are exported each year - 99.4 to 99.6 percent pure.

                                      
                                         Home Sweet Home until the next weather window.

Several miles of salt ponds were they "grow" salt.   There is nothing but earth under the salt, no linings.  The water dries up and salt forms.  Then the conveyor belt dumps them by the truck load and takes them to the mine to be processed and shipped out.