It is best to start early, so catch the 6:30 or latest the 9 am ferry from Leeward, and your car rental agent will meet you at Sandy point landing. About a forty minute drive from the ferryboat landing on North Caicos you will cross the causeway to Middle Caicos, and just head on into Conch Bar to check in at Daniels Café, and have an orientation. You can leave your car and head straight out onto the trail!! Alternatively, maybe ten minutes after you come across the causeway, you will see a sign for Blue Horizon Resort. Turn into the drive, head up the hill and park near the cement path to the beach.

The cliff walk portion of the hike begins here at Mudjin Harbour, where a swim awaits anytime before or after your hike! Take the goat trail up on to the top of the cave to get started – it is a scrawny path over the rocks but opens onto a magnificent stone patio overlook site. Here you will pause in amazement, take photos, ogle at the view, be awed by the colours of the sea, and take in the glorious scenery as you perch on the stone benches.

Sometimes a rough pathway is visible, sometimes not, but keep on truckin’ along the cliff edge following the shoreline! In about twenty minutes you will come to the long stretch of Norbellis beach, where you can amble along the beach or find the sand road (the old actual Crossing Place road) to continue west. The beach at Norbellis has huge waves, not for the weak swimmer at all, but exhilarating for a dip!

At the end of this beach, the sand road heads down the hill, and onto the next cove with a shallow shore. You will pass one of the trail markers – a lovely cameo tile with the head of a woman – and can see the next marker far along the way. Two more beaches and then you will arrive to the old turning point, where the trail heads south across the salina to the original ”crossing place”.

The traditional path is too overgrown to follow these days but an alternate trail is possible.

This is often far enough for many, and a fine spot for a good rest, swim and snack before heading back to Conch Bar. For the brave, continue on to the channel between North and Middle Caicos by making your way to Blowing Hole. In times gone by, the Blowing Hole had a top cover, so that water rushed in, gushed through the “hole”, spouted vertically visible for miles, and made a great booming sound!! The cover has broken but the swell of the waves in and out is still fun to observe. From here you will find small pathways to follow out to the channel, made by local fishermen going out to collect conch on the low tide.

With perseverance along these small pathways, you will come out at a calm sandy cove on the channel between North and Middle Caicos where a flock of flamingoes often feeds. The channel offers great swimming and a fine spot for a rest and snack. Alternatively, if you are not a bushwhacker, you can just clamber on the hills at will. Clambering is not as easy at it sounds, but great exercise! You will find clusters of wooly nipple cactus all over the hills, lots of birds swooping along the cliffs - and the views continue to be excellent. Heading back is the simply the reverse.