Visitor Information
Salt Cay has its own very informative website (www.saltcay.org), which has a business directory -- with listings of accommodations, restaurants, grocery stores, watersports operators, golf-cart rentals, and the like -- a map of the island, history, and much more.
Salt Cay has three grocery/convenience stores: Smith's Shopping Center, Nettie's Store, and Pat's Store. Nettie Talbot, born and bred on Salt Cay, sells fresh-baked bread out of her store.
Getting to Salt Cay
The Salt Cay airport has been recently upgraded, the airstrip lengthened and resurfaced. Currently, Air Turks & Caicos (tel. 649/941-5481 or 649/946-6940, -6906 on Salt Cay; www.airturksandcaicos.com) and Global Airways charters (tel. 649/941-3222; www.globalairways.tc) fly to Salt Cay. Air Turks & Caicos offers regularly scheduled flights daily between Provo and Grand Turk, and then three flights a day from Grand Turk to Salt Cay; the Grand Turk-Salt Cay leg takes under 10 minutes and costs $80 (£40) round-trip. The one daily flight from Provo to Salt Cay takes 30 minutes and costs $165 (£83). Contact Global for schedules, which can change daily.
A government-subsidized ferry runs between Grand Turk and Salt Cay, weather permitting, every Wednesday and Friday (leaving from South Dock -- the island's only dock, by the way -- at Salt Cay at 7:30am and returning at 2:30pm). The trip takes an hour and costs $12 (£6). You can also hire a private-boat operator to take you between Salt Cay and Grand Turk (as long as the seas aren't too rough). Contact Nathan Smith or hire a boat charter with Salt Cay Adventure Tours (tel. 649/946-6909; www.saltcaytours.com). Cruise-ship passengers who arrive in Grand Turk can also contact Salt Cay Adventures to arrange day trips to Salt Cay.
Getting Around Salt Cay
No one needs a car to get around Salt Cay, which has more donkeys than cars; it's the perfect place for getting around on foot, by bike, or by golf cart. Nathan Smith, the "unofficial mayor of Salt Cay," not only offers taxi service from the airport but rents golf carts and bikes (and offers tours of all kinds, including snorkeling and troll fishing for tuna). Contact Smith's Golf-Cart & Bike Rental, located next to the Salt Cay Divers dive shop (tel. 649/946-6928 or cellphone 649/231-4856; two-seater golf-carts $50/£25/day, $280/£140/week; four-seaters $60/£30/day, $350/£175/week; bikes $10/£5/day; credit cards accepted).
