Additional Adventures!

Now that I’ve been here a few days, and met a few insiders, I need to add to my list of places I want to go. Let’s talk about it.

1.       BIOS

 

The man who sat next to me on the plane knew I had an interest in marine science and offered BIOS (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences) as a point of interest I might want to check out. It’s on the far side of the island near the airport, and we actually saw it out the window as we were landing. Apparently you can volunteer, study, and be part of the research there – but I’m not positive it’s open to the public. Maybe I can make friends with someone who works there?

2.       Ice Queen

 

 

The father of my favorite Bermuda family knew I was trying to save money, so he told me about Ice Queen. It’s just outside Hamilton and offers a large menu with lots of relatively inexpensive fast food options. I’ve now more recently heard from someone at work that it’s very low quality fast food. But I’m American – so that may not be a problem for me.

3.       Swizzle (South Shore)

 

After our first day at work, the other girls and I wanted to go out to dinner to celebrate being in Bermuda. Since one of the girls has been living here a while, she suggested a great place we would all like. A place called Swizzle. So we got ourselves all dressed for dinner, braved the cold, windy, and muddy walk down to the bus stop, scrambled for exact change for the fare, and headed out to Swizzle, about 25-30min away. We hopped off the bus, excited and hungry, and some guys driving by shouted something out the window. We looked at each other – what was that about? Then we realized: they had shouted ‘it’s closed’. CLOSED. SWIZZLE WAS CLOSED. Why, we still have yet to find out – apparently they were not usually closed at that time on that day. Briefly disappointed, but never discouraged, we huddled at the nearest bus stop and had a dance party courtesy of one of the girls’ iPhones and waited for a bus home. UPDATE: recently heard Swizzle is temporarily closed due to some kind of maintenance.

4.       Blue Hole

 

Along with the beaches I want to go to, there is the Blue Hole. I had heard vague bits about it, and the man on the plane told me how to get there without having to pay admission to the Crystal Caves. Sounds like an awesome place to snorkel/free dive. We’ve only had two sunny days in the week I’ve been here, but they were very promising. I may not have to wait ‘til summer to get in the water.

5.       Smallest Drawbridge

 

The grandmother of my favorite Bermuda family, and our ride out to Dockyard from the airport, pointed out the Somerset Bridge as we drove over it. Apparently it’s the smallest working drawbridge in the world. The actual bridge that comes up is just a piece of wood. Sailboats that want to pass through have to wait for a passerby to remove the wooden plank. If that’s not small town charm, I don’t know what is.