Visiting Bermuda

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Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines Fun Family Cruising Bermuda Explorer of the Seas

After the Explorer of the Seas left Bayonne, NJ, we spent a full day at sea and docked at King’s Wharf, Bermuda. King’s Wharf is also called Royal Naval Dockyard, which is on the western section of Bermuda. The Royal Naval Dockyard was an active navy base during the War of 1812, and is now a center for tourism.

Bermuda is approx 21 miles of land area. Visitors are not allowed to rent automobiles or operate any other kind of four or more wheeled vehicle on Bermuda's roads. The reason is the unfamiliar, often narrow, winding, sharply twisting roads. Besides that, the vehicles are driven on the left side of the road.

Mopeds or scooters can be rented. Mopeds have larger wheels than scooters and are safer. But again, they can be dangerous to those not accustomed to them driving on the “wrong side” of the road. Water taxi or “pink” colored buses are available for Hamilton or St. George’s.

Bermuda is known for its “pink sand”. It’s actually sand with specks of pink sand in it, giving it a “pink hue”. The beach sand is not volcanic but from finely pulverized remains of calcium carbonate shells and skeletons of invertebrates such as corals, clams, forams (single-celled organisms) and other shells. Horseshoe Bay is a beautiful beach with very fine sand & calm blue waters.

Things to do in Bermuda:
Diving & snorkeling (although snorkeling in the Caribbean is probably better), watersports, shopping, visiting the pink sand beaches, golfing, historical churches, dozens of ancient fortresses, art galleries, horseback riding, Crystal Caves tour, aquarium, lighthouse, museums.

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Wawan

Tue, Mar 20th 2012 at 8:35am

I have lived in Bermuda for a year and it is really fun. My favorite things to do are:(1) scuba and/or snorkel. The water is getting colder in November but you can still swim. Bermuda has tons of shipwrecks and coral reefs to see. You can book at any one of the many: there is Tucker's Point, Blue Water Diving, Triangle Diving, etc. etc. I did it at Tucker's Point, which is neat because on the way to dive sites they take you by boat past Billionaire's Row (Ross Perot, Berlusconi, Michael Bloomberg and other billionaires have homes there. Or if you can't afford a professional tour, you can just rent or buy a snorkel mask and head out to Church Bay or Tobacco Bay beaches, where there is interesting snorkeling only a few feet from shore.(2) rent a scooter and drive to the remotest beaches. Snorkel Park and Horseshoe Bay are popular beaches with tourists, but if you have a scooter you can get to some of the beaches in the less densely populated parts of Bermuda, which are my favorite: Fort Ste. Catherine's, Tobacco Bay, Clearwater and Cooper's Island. And just riding around on a scooter around Bermuda is worth the price, even if you do it for only one day one of my other favorite activities is just driving around seeing the ocean and the houses.(3) The two best value-for-money tourist attractions are the Maritime Museum at the Dockyard and the Aquarium in Flatt's Village. Both are ten bucks and well worth visiting. Easy access to both of those by bus. If you like seashells, there is an impressive collection at Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. (4) Try the fresh local fish. Wahoo, tuna and rockfish and mahi mahi are all caught locally. If price is no object, try Flying Fish in Hamilton or Wahoo's Grill in St.George. You can get a cheap fish lunch at Lemon Tree in Hamilton. Also try the Bermuda fish chowder (served almost anywhere).

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