Wow, what an awesome vacation!
Jenn's parents have a timeshare in Bermuda, and we were invited to go this year. It was an amazing trip, thought I'd share some of the photographs with you guys. I have nearly a thousand photos, and just pulled these few as a good overview of what we saw.
It was a lot of fun puttering around the island on the mopeds. People drive like maniacs there, but hey, at least Jenn finally got her butt on a bike
The water there was amazing. I've never been to a tropical island before, and was unprepared for just how blue it was - not even pictures can demonstrate.
The most famous beach, of course, is Horseshoe Bay. It was ranked as one of the top ten beaches in the world. This picture gives a good overview of the beach and a good idea of where the name came from.
It was pretty crowded on the main section, but if you walked on either side of it you got a little more privacy.
Just for loco...
There were an entire flock of Bermuda Longtails flying around the beach - it was pretty cool, these guys are beautiful. Couldn't get many good shots with my little digicam, but I got a couple decent ones.
My favorite beach on the trip was Church Bay, which Jenn's parents hadn't even seen before. Just breathtaking, and there were only a couple other people there with us so we had it practically to ourselves.
I also got to go snorkling for the first time. It was a lot of fun, even if my cheap snorkle broke off and I had to spend the rest of the trip with just a mask! This was the first place I went to, called Jobson's Cove.
I got to see several of these guys (Parrot fish):
They're pretty neat; when they feed, they are typically in the shallows and are eating off the rocks on the bottom, so their tails wave around in the air out of the water.
Me giving Jenn's mom a heart attack clambering around on the rocks... (picture by Jenn)
Some of the other beaches we saw were Warwick Long Bay:
A beach near Spittal Pond:
And Elbow Beach:
We also met a lot of the natives, too.
Sea slug:
Portugese Man O' War:
English Sparrows all over the island:
TONS of lizards:
And chickens everywhere!
These guys were all around as well:
We visited the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, and I highly recommend visiting if you go, if only for this one room. It's a collection of hundreds and hundreds of different types of shells from all over the world!
We saw the smallest drawbridge in the world - the part that pops up is only 18" across:
Downtown Hamilton was a neat little city, very colorful and very busy!
We also ate and drank very well.
Rum Swizzles at the Swizzle Inn:
Beer sampler at the North Rock Brewery, before and after:
I didn't get a picture of a really good sunset, since we were inside eating usually at sundown. I guess I can live with drinking one of these:
...while merely seeing this:
It's a tough life but somebody's got to live it.
A couple random shots:
And some nice flower pictures taken by Jenn:
Awww...
Jenn got this really great shot of the island as we were leaving... Bye, Bermuda...
Quite the vacation. We saw a ton of places for a relatively short time being there - one of the days we were there, we took a ferry to the western tip of the island and biked back the entire length of the island to our condo on the eastern tip. I had a blast!
Comments, questions, random chatter and eyebrow jokes are all welcome.
Jenn's parents have a timeshare in Bermuda, and we were invited to go this year. It was an amazing trip, thought I'd share some of the photographs with you guys. I have nearly a thousand photos, and just pulled these few as a good overview of what we saw.
It was a lot of fun puttering around the island on the mopeds. People drive like maniacs there, but hey, at least Jenn finally got her butt on a bike
The water there was amazing. I've never been to a tropical island before, and was unprepared for just how blue it was - not even pictures can demonstrate.
The most famous beach, of course, is Horseshoe Bay. It was ranked as one of the top ten beaches in the world. This picture gives a good overview of the beach and a good idea of where the name came from.
It was pretty crowded on the main section, but if you walked on either side of it you got a little more privacy.
Just for loco...
There were an entire flock of Bermuda Longtails flying around the beach - it was pretty cool, these guys are beautiful. Couldn't get many good shots with my little digicam, but I got a couple decent ones.
My favorite beach on the trip was Church Bay, which Jenn's parents hadn't even seen before. Just breathtaking, and there were only a couple other people there with us so we had it practically to ourselves.
I also got to go snorkling for the first time. It was a lot of fun, even if my cheap snorkle broke off and I had to spend the rest of the trip with just a mask! This was the first place I went to, called Jobson's Cove.
I got to see several of these guys (Parrot fish):
They're pretty neat; when they feed, they are typically in the shallows and are eating off the rocks on the bottom, so their tails wave around in the air out of the water.
Me giving Jenn's mom a heart attack clambering around on the rocks... (picture by Jenn)
Some of the other beaches we saw were Warwick Long Bay:
A beach near Spittal Pond:
And Elbow Beach:
We also met a lot of the natives, too.
Sea slug:
Portugese Man O' War:
English Sparrows all over the island:
TONS of lizards:
And chickens everywhere!
These guys were all around as well:
We visited the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, and I highly recommend visiting if you go, if only for this one room. It's a collection of hundreds and hundreds of different types of shells from all over the world!
We saw the smallest drawbridge in the world - the part that pops up is only 18" across:
Downtown Hamilton was a neat little city, very colorful and very busy!
We also ate and drank very well.
Rum Swizzles at the Swizzle Inn:
Beer sampler at the North Rock Brewery, before and after:
I didn't get a picture of a really good sunset, since we were inside eating usually at sundown. I guess I can live with drinking one of these:
...while merely seeing this:
It's a tough life but somebody's got to live it.
A couple random shots:
And some nice flower pictures taken by Jenn:
Awww...
Jenn got this really great shot of the island as we were leaving... Bye, Bermuda...
Quite the vacation. We saw a ton of places for a relatively short time being there - one of the days we were there, we took a ferry to the western tip of the island and biked back the entire length of the island to our condo on the eastern tip. I had a blast!
Comments, questions, random chatter and eyebrow jokes are all welcome.
Here's a pic of me with my bike for the week! I know it's motorized, but it's better than nothing, right?! Hope you all enjoyed the pics; I wish I was still there! 
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