First up - the weather report! Bermuda is fine, We are not in the path of any hurricanes, at present, though Jose is being watched carefully! We have had some minor affects in that we have had stronger winds, rougher seas with small craft warnings and we have been under a bit more cloud and rain, but this is due to move away later in the week. It was quite scary watching the constant hurricane weather channels and watching the battering which occurred down south, so I am pleased not to be in the thick of things!!!!!
Saturday here was a beautiful day, and it was spent on and near the water! Alick, Helen, Barbara and I set off for Castle Harbour, which is on the east side of the island - near the airport, and were kitted out for kayaking. Helen and I were in the one kayak and we ended up, in both directions, always going to the right, so zig-zagged our way across to a very small beach next to the main causeway, leading to the airport, but more importantly near the 'blue hole'. This area of the island has numerous inland ponds which are fed by the sea with the water travelling both above ground and underground through a series of caves. The commercial caves are Crystal Caves and Fantasy Cave which are major tourist attractions, but we concentrated, on Saturday, on some minor caves that are located in 'Tom Moore's Jungle'. The Blue Hole is a large pool between the sea and the caves, which in the old days was used to house the dolphins in captivity. There are still dolphins but the whole experience is down at the dockyards on the west side of the island.
The achievement!!!!!!! It took a few count downs before I made it in!!!!
The next stop was at the Cathedral Cave which is on the property of Grotto Bay Hotel, where I met my next SA connection - Megan has been on the Island for 4 years and was at school at the same time as Ian and David and mixed in the same crowd - small world!!!! I persuaded her that even though the water in this cave was pretty cold, it was still warmer than Camps Bay! It was a far more enclosed cave than the first one we swam in and the water was beautifully clear.
Our last stop of the day was the icecream parlour - which was everyone else's stop too. I had a lovely ginger icecream - yum!
Back to work during the week!!! It has kept me quite busy the last few days. Can't wait for the next weekend and further watery adventures!!!
Keep well
Saturday here was a beautiful day, and it was spent on and near the water! Alick, Helen, Barbara and I set off for Castle Harbour, which is on the east side of the island - near the airport, and were kitted out for kayaking. Helen and I were in the one kayak and we ended up, in both directions, always going to the right, so zig-zagged our way across to a very small beach next to the main causeway, leading to the airport, but more importantly near the 'blue hole'. This area of the island has numerous inland ponds which are fed by the sea with the water travelling both above ground and underground through a series of caves. The commercial caves are Crystal Caves and Fantasy Cave which are major tourist attractions, but we concentrated, on Saturday, on some minor caves that are located in 'Tom Moore's Jungle'. The Blue Hole is a large pool between the sea and the caves, which in the old days was used to house the dolphins in captivity. There are still dolphins but the whole experience is down at the dockyards on the west side of the island.
The intrepid explorers, just before we hid the oars, so no-one could steal the kayaks - and then set off into the jungle!!!!
Swimming in the blue hole was great, but even better was jumping off a cliff next to it. Luckily the tide was high, otherwise I don't think I could have done it, as it still felt a long way down. However I couldn't let the side down, as we all jumped!!!
Walking through Tom Moore's Jungle to the caves. The rocks are really quite amazing
At the Blue Hole, we picked up an American cardiologist who was holidaying on the island with his wife and baby - his parents moved to USA from Johannesburg in the 80's!!!! He kindly took this photo of us swimming in the cave. It was a little weird having stalactites and -mites around!
We then had to row back, which was quite tough as the wind and swell had come up a bit, plus we had our rowing-to-the-right problem, but our zig-zags seemed to be better controlled!
We lunched at the Grotto Bay Hotel and had this view! This is looking east towards the airport.
Our last stop of the day was the icecream parlour - which was everyone else's stop too. I had a lovely ginger icecream - yum!
Keep well
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