This post is to make up for yesterday and also write about today. I can’t put any pictures in to this post, because my computer won’t let me log in to the blog. Yesterday I got a moped of my very own to ride, which is super fun except I dropped it on my foot. We drove into the town of Hamilton which is quite bustling and colorful. Lunch on the waterfront. There were lots of cute seed-beak variety birds and also some pigeons. One pigeon had a club foot. Possibly a birth defect caused by toxins.
In the afternoon we snorkeled a bunch on the southern side of the island near the cup reefs. It was so beautiful! The wet suits kept us warm like seal skin might, and there were plenty of fish and coral…there was a cool trumpetfish. Our guide speared a lionfish; it didn’t put up much of a fight. The drive back was very cold, but that’ll happen.
Today was our day to do whatever we wanted, so after being in Hamilton we went to the most gorgeous beach with so much crazy-looking limestone! We climbed some of it & it was a way pretty view. The sand was coarse & pink with forams. Although it was quite windy so it hurt our faces and filled our ears. You can’t win ’em all.
Then we went to the highest point in Bermuda, which was a lighthouse. It had nice views of the whole island and across into “The Triangle”. A little windy and freaky also. Definitely a rush. Took the scenic route back to the bio-station. Tropical and pleasant, it was. Showered a few pounds of sand off. Dinner. Now blogging to all you readers.
I like this island because its hard to get lost. It feels like an amusement park sometimes, because its small and you drive on the left side and everything is very colorful. But no amusement park would have all this limestone. If one did I would go…if you’ve heard of one let me know. Anyways, it always looks like the limestone beds have been uplifted and tilted, but they HAVEN’T its all cross-bedding…how cool is that?!