Raven and Wolfe Visit Bermuda
In July we went to Bermuda and spent three weeks exploring the island. Our first house was on the south side of island near Elbow Beach, our second house was further South, down by Horseshoe Bay, and the last house was up in St. George. You can’t rent a car in Bermuda, I guess due to the small streets and driving on the left-hand side they figure it’s safer for tourists to take taxis and public transport. We tried to strategically pick our locations to be close to different beaches and areas we wanted to explore and then took buses most of the time. The buses worked well once we figured them out and Jesse would sleep and nurse on the bus trips which worked out pretty well. It was very hot and humid there and you were pretty much dripping in sweat if you weren’t in the water and the buses were air conditioned so Jesse slept a lot on the bus and trip and so did Darwin, he was often exhausted on the way back. We found one of our favorite beaches up by St. George on our last day, Clearwater Beach and Long Bay. We ended up taking a taxi over there after waiting for the bus which never came, we found out there was some kind of meeting and no buses were running. Clearwater Beach was pristine with fine white sand and not a lot of people and if you hike down a road you got to Long Bay with beaches on both sides. Another favorite beach of ours was Horseshoe Bay, it was a great spot with lot of rocks and a natural pool that would get deeper when waves came and then get shallower when they receded. The ocean was calm here and there were rocks with private beaches between them and we could always find a spot for ourselves with no one else on the beach. We walked to this beach most of the days we were at the orange house down by Horseshoe Beach. We ended up taking three corona virus tests while in Bermuda and the first two were not too bad, we got to the location relatively easily, but for the third test we had to go from the south end of the island all the way up to St. George’s on the North side and wasted most of the day doing that. It was a great time to be there since it had just opened there were very few tourists, in fact one day when we were shopping a local started chatting us up and was excited to see tourists saying we were one of the few he had seen. I’m not sure I would have enjoyed Bermuda nearly as much had it been full of tourists with packed beaches and cruise ships, but it was nice with not too many people on the beaches. Click on the pictures below to get the full screen images.
