THE ISLAND TOUR
My bus holds 14 (I cut my tours off at 10 persons) so it is very large and comfortable and the air conditioner has just been serviced. My tours are relaxed, off the beaten track and full of history and stories. I leave Dockyard and head to the other end of the Island – St. Georges (where it all began). There are many short stops along the way. Great for picture taking, and offered from a true historical sense as opposed to just a tourist ‘point and shoot.’
The tour is approximately 6 hours long.
The price is $100 per person and this includes lunch and entrance to Gibbs Hill
Fort Scaur for the views and history !
Somerset Bridge – the world’s smallest drawbridge
Gibbs Hill Lighthouse
Warwick Long Bay
Jobson’s cove – to hunt for parrot fish and long tails
Flatts Inlet
The back roads of St. Georges
A stop at Building Bay and Alexandra Battery
The town of St. Georges ( a half hour stop)
Along the way, I make short stops and point out bits and pieces along the way. The beauty of living on a 400 year old Island, is that every corner, nook and cranny is filled with memories and a whole lot of stories…
By the end of my tour, I like to think that everyone with me knows how we got here, why and what they are looking at.
I do not request a deposit. I work on the honesty system. You book the tour, and I pick you up.
$100.00 per person
Tour is aprox. 6 hours long
Must have a minimum of six persons or equivalent payment of.
(Picnic lunch is included. Sometimes we stop at Botanical Gardens, Sometimes at a beach – my favourite stop is at Flatt’s Inlet. I like to stop at a local Diner to get take out. Weather permitting, lunch is eaten outside.
Tour Information
Please note: We do not have credit card availability and so cash payment is required.
Walking Tours:
Looking to get away from it all and take a natural history walk?
Tours will take 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours.
$60.00 per person
Must have a minimum of four persons or equivalent payment of.
Walsingham Jungle:
This area is the first part of Bermuda that was formed and is full of magic, history and many caves. Walk by a peaceful lagoon, into caves willed with staletites, along mangrove lowlands, past Tom Moore’s Tavern and through paths covered with natural arches.
This tour requires some physical assertion. Comfortable and slip proof shoes should be worn, and something that you don’t mind getting a little dirty.
Spittal Pond:
This is Bermuda’s largest nature reserve – covering some 64 acres. The reserve hugs the shore and its centre is the 8 acre Spittal Pond. The reserve is temporary home to a multitude of migratory birds.
Walk past endemic plants past the pond. A visit to the ‘Checkerboard’, a most unusual geological formation on the coastline. A visit to ‘Portuguese Rock’, where there is the earliest sign of humans in Bermuda. The initials ‘RP’ and date ‘1543’ were inscribed here.
The coast is rocky and ‘raw’, giving another view of Bermuda not often seen.
Comfortable clothing and shoes should be worn.
Fort Scaur and Heydon Trust:
The walk begins at Fort Scaur which offers beautiful views of Ely’s Harbour and the South as well as the Great Sound.
A walk along the railway trail and the Great Sound is a peaceful and interesting ‘get away’. Past gardens and houses, you will get a view of Bermuda from ‘the other side’.
The walk leads to Heydon Trust, where a tour of the property leads past the Chapel, the original main house, a cedar tree that survived our scale of the 40’s (which killed 99% of our cedar trees) and is draped with Spanish Moss, rose gardens and endemic plants.
The walk returns to Fort Scaur.