Green, Red and White

A pretty little boat near Tobacco Bay, Bermuda

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Sky High

Kite surfers make the most of the winter season when fewer people are using the beaches and the wind is stronger. This was on Elbow Beach, Paget.

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Cockburn Cut Bridge in Watercolour II

Cockburn Cut Bridge from the other side

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Cockburn Cut Bridge in Watercolour

Cockburn Cut Bridge links the Dockyard on Ireland Island North, to Ireland Island South. This is facing from the Great South through to the open ocean. I painted this on a watercolour workshop outing with Chris Marson. I was quite pleased with the result!

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Morning Glory

Bonus photo to make up for the miss yesterday: a close-up of the ubiquitous morning glory flower.

Morning Glory and Mangroves

Morning glory growing down (or up) a mangrove (another red one, showing off its roots well). This is in the HT North Nature Reserve on the edge of the aptly named Mangrove Lake.

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Pirate Ship!

Pirates! I'm not sure what the story is of this rusty ship. It's been anchored in St George's Harbour for quite a while, but this summer was the first time I had noticed its flag!

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Gurnet Rock under Towering Clouds

Gurnet Rock rises off Nonsuch Island on the south shore reef line. It took a battering in Hurricane Fabian in 2003, but is still standing. Apparently sharks come through the reef line near this rock at night!

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Sunrise through Red Mangroves

Early morning light on the waves gently washing in through the red mangroves at Blue Hole Nature Reserve in Castle Harbour. The roots of these plants arch out into the sand and silt to support themseves. The black mangroves are notable for their roots which grow vertically up out of the sand like snorkels, and essentially carry out that function. Properly, they're called pneumatophors. I'll show a photograph of them sometime.

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Spiders

A Golden Silk Spider looming up on a dainty Dew Drop Spider. In fact the dew drops spiders seem to co-exist happily with the golden silk spiders - it is the male golden silks which really have to fear for their lives!

Sanderling

Sanderling on South Shore. I'm not sure if these are migratory birds, but they're often seen dashing along just in front of the waves during the autumn months.

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Holy Trinity Church, Bailey's Bay

Holy Trinity Church, Bailey's Bay

An old Anglican church in Bailey's Bay, Hamilton Parish almost on the shore of Harrington Sound. This has a particular connection with my family as it was the location for the marriage of my first ancestors in Bermuda, in 1782.

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Dawn over Turtle Bay, St Davids

Sunrise over the east of the island. This is Turtle Bay, just along from Cooper's Island which has recently been converted to a nature reserve. St David's Light House is just visible on the skyline across the bay.

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5, Crooked Elbow

Details in the back streets of St Georges

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St James Court

Condominiums with gorgeous views - into Flatts Inlet and out and beyond towards Gibbets Island and the North Shore. My friend's family has an apartment there and they talk about how they can gaze out over the inlet and have competitions counting the number of rays that swim past!

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Be a little Twisted

Big it up Bermuda!! My friend noticed one of the Twisted Tea labels features a very cool photo taken by a Daniela in Bermuda.

Stewart Hall

If you wander the back streets of St Georges, you will likely come across Stewart Hall, built c.1707, which today houses the Bermuda Perfumery.

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Moonlit 'scape from Spanish Rock

Closer

You can see why he's called a spiny orb weaver, and equally a crab spider!

Crab Spider

A crab spider (known as a spiny orb-weaver elsewhere) after a morning shower.

Coast

A pretty morning along the coast by Spittal Pond.

End of Summer Sunshine

Sunshine and clouds over John Smith's Bay

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Old Cedar Reaching

Dead cedar (killed during the 1940's cedar blight) reaching for the clouds and beyond.

The Unfinished Church, St Georges

These pillars and arches may appear to be in ruins, but in fact the church was never built in its entirety anyway. The church was under construction when a fire damaged the cathedral and so funds were diverted away to that. Thus the apparent ruins continue to stand over the Town of St Georges today.

I used the 'Orton' blur method on this photograph which I thought gave it a sort of light that made it seem not quite dead. Hope you enjoy this photo!

Larkspur

We don't just have tropical flowers in Bermuda! Here are two versions (to make up for the lack of a post yesterday!) of larkspur, a traditional English cottage annual that is flowering in our Bermuda flower bed.

My Bermuda

Not sure why I'm looking so sad, but blue is for ocean, along with the wave. Also Bermudianas, our endemic national flower, and fitted dinghy sailing boats, along with the Island. There would probably be too many 'Bermudian icons' to name just one. But these dinghies are very traditional here and races are held in the summer. You are allowed as much sail a you can manage, and as many crew as can stay afloat!

Garden Door

A blue garden door in St Georges

Streaming Water

If you like water photographs, Bermuda has plenty and plenty of opportunities! Thank you for your support, Joan, Here the waves are flowing over the edges of the reefs on the south shore coastline.

Liquid Light

An abstract of the waters of Harrington Sound