Travels with us
May 2010
Bermuda is the oldest and most populous remaining British overseas territory, settled by England a century before the Acts of Union created the Kingdom of Great Britain. Bermuda’s first capital, St-George’s, was settled in 1612 and is the oldest continuously inhabited English town in the Americas.
Elbow Beach
The sand of the beach is very fine and displays a pink tint.
The Crystal Cave is the most famous of Bermuda’s many subterranean caverns. A tourist attraction since 1907, it was discovered in 1905 by Carl Gibbons and Edgar Hollis, two 12 year-old boys searching for a lost cricket ball. Soon after, the Wilkinson family (the owners of the property since 1884) learned of the discovery, Mr. Percy Wilkinson lowered his 14 year-old son Bernard into it with a bicycle lamp on 140 feet of strong rope tied to a tree to explore the cave.
This was a fascinating trip into the belly of the earth…well, maybe not the belly, but…huh…the throat!
St-George
The Maritime Museum in the foreground. It occupies the Keep of the Royal Naval Dockyard, including the Commissioner’s House, and exhibits artifacts of the base’s military history. I visited the Keep and had a great time. I took a bunch of pictures, but for some reason I deleted them. Oh well! For another trip.
A significant segment of the population is also of Portuguese ancestry (10%), the result of immigration from Portuguese-held islands (especially the Azores) during the past 160 years. Bermuda had been used as a mid-way point to the Americas.
Entrace to ‘prison’
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