A grid of low stone walls and shallow rectangular ponds covers much of the centre of South Caicos — the abandoned salinas where seawater was once led in, evaporated by sun and wind, and raked into white pyramids for export. Some of the windpump towers, salt-houses, and loading docks still stand, and the brackish remnants of the ponds support roseate spoonbills, herons, ospreys and the occasional flock of flamingos.
It is worth a walk or a slow cycle at sunrise or in the late afternoon, when the light is soft and the salt water reflects pink. The site has no formal entry; just turn off the road and pick your way among the walls.