Airline Service
AirTAC is problematic. They truly are only flying on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. But, if the Islander is down, then there is no service at all. That is the only plane currently flying that can come to Salt Cay.

They have a King Air but it cannot land there...plus their useful load isn’t anything to get excited about.

The Twin Otter is in the shop...as in no wings at the moment.

The Cessna’s are out of time and can’t be used anymore either...plus the one that went through the fence is still in the shop.

I can report that Lionel turned on the landing lights for us on an early September, Friday morning so the 6 am flight could see to land! It was great... and they really work.

Be sure you are booking your landing in Provo for the right days of the week as AirTAC will not fly you into Salt Cay. Porter found that out the hard way. He could have chartered for what it cost him to overnight in Grand Turk and find places to put his cold food.

And, if you are in Provo and they cannot fly? The word is get a room as you are not going anywhere...and if it is Saturday, prepare to be there until Monday when the next flight is scheduled. Or call Global. Or buy a boat and learn to drive it to Salt Cay. Bottom line is MWFSa, and that’s that.

Check out Spirit Air. http://www.spiritair.com/welcome.aspx?pg=salesinformation&number=59

They plan to fly to Provo and Grand Turk starting February 16, 2006 from Ft. Lauderdale. This link should get you to their Caribbean links page. Sounds like Ft. Lauderdale is $99 each way with their best discount.

Library

It’s library time. End of the year blues. Time to break open those hard hit wallets to make sure we have a librarian to staff the library to keep the library functioning. Please donate whatever you can either by sending it to Gary Lightbourne, Salt Cay Public Library, Salt Cay, TCI, BWI or Paypal it to mmcnair1@comcast.net and make sure it says Salt Cay Library Donation on it. I will make sure the cash gets to the island.

Closing

We are off to Salt Cay for 2 months on November 16, and returning January 11, 2006. Hopefully there will be folks coming and going to keep us from getting too bored with each other.
Marley’s going to work on his snorkel heeling. Joel’s going to finish the deck, do his work bench in the garage, and we’ll paint the garage as well. Other than that, it is time to start diving as much as weather permits, try to get to South Caicos and enjoy the life of Salt Cay while we can.
Hope to see you there.

Mbm