TOURS

THE ISLAND TOUR 

My company is very small… I am bus driver and historical tour guide.   I have been studying the history of my beautiful Island for 25 years now, and I am constantly nabbing and absorbing any new historical books that might come my way.  In short… My tour is forever evolving.  

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.
It starts and ends in Dockyard
The price is $100 per person and this includes lunch, water along the way, entrance to Gibbs Hill and any other bits and pieces that we come to along the way.   
I do need cash payment as I do not have a credit card machine.

I like to stop at one of two  local Diners to get take out.   Both  are famous for their fish sandwiches – typically served on raisin toast with tartar sauce… but they make good burgers and home made chicken burgers as well…..    We stop and eat lunch at my favourite bench – which is located in Flatts Village – a beautiful inlet where the water is so clear and blue it is almost unbelievable.

The tour will include (please note that nothing is carved in stone… often a conversation will start, and the next thing we know the bus has taken a sharp left between an oleander hedge to some hidden gem)…  

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 four 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.

$50.00 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.