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Long Bay Beach, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos No, the island of Provo—the traveler’s gateway to Turks and Caicos’s 40-odd islands and cays—isn’t undiscovered by any stretch of the imagination.
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Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 14 Aug. 2025
Offshore, cays drift in dreamy isolation—their edges kissed by foamy surf and dotted with nesting Brown Pelicans.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
The Bahamas, Beyond More than 700 islands and cays comprise the Bahamas, yet for much of their history, just two main islands have welcomed any meaningful number of visitors: New Providence, home to the capital city of Nassau, and Grand Bahama, home to the bustling port of Freeport.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
It can be reached via water taxi or private catamaran (around 20 minutes) and is one of the cays that make up La Cordillera Nature Reserve.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 27 July 2025
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Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 14 Aug. 2025
Offshore, cays drift in dreamy isolation—their edges kissed by foamy surf and dotted with nesting Brown Pelicans.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
The Bahamas, Beyond More than 700 islands and cays comprise the Bahamas, yet for much of their history, just two main islands have welcomed any meaningful number of visitors: New Providence, home to the capital city of Nassau, and Grand Bahama, home to the bustling port of Freeport.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
It can be reached via water taxi or private catamaran (around 20 minutes) and is one of the cays that make up La Cordillera Nature Reserve.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 27 July 2025
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“Cay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cay. Accessed 2 Sep. 2025.
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