17.01.2012
I hope you enjoy continuing to explore Bermuda through these photos here.
As a newly fledged landscape architect, I’ve moved to Woodbridge in Suffolk, UK, but am lucky to still call Bermuda home!
I’ve swapped ocean for river and humid sea breezes for crisp cool skies. If you like, you’re welcome to also join me on my newest adventures at Woodbridge Daily Photo.
Flatts Village, Bermuda
Flat calm, Woodbridge
18.09.2010
Wishing Bermuda well as Hurricane Igor (‘EE-gor‘) passes over/by the island. I’m sorry I’ve just returned to university and not there to help with preparations/picking up the pieces.
You can follow the storm here:
http://www.weather.bm/maps/TropicalStormInfo.asp?WTNTnum=WTNT21
Hurricane Igor's predicted track - Bermuda Weather Service
17.09.2010
14.09.2010
Just having fun waving my camera at the lights on Harrington Sound. I though the result was even a bit artistic!
Did you spot it? I was trying to write my name. This is a crop of that photograph, rotated 180 degrees. The thought just crossed my mind that these pictures are rather relevant – Lucy means ‘light’.
It took a while to figue out how to move my camera to spell my name correctly, the right way up. This was my closest, though it was getting very dark so I was beginning to lose the light on the water…
12.09.2010
With the days becoming shorter, finally sunrise doesn’t feel so early! Made the most of it with a visit to Gravelly Bay.
11.09.2010
08.09.2010
There is a large flock of migrant Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) (+ 1 Least Tern, Sternula antillarum) hanging out in Harrington Sound at the moment. We went out in the boat to take a look. There were also a number of resident common terns, distinguished by a metal band on their leg, which were claiming their territory on the buoys. This was one of the residents flying across rippled homes and garden reflections.
07.09.2010
It might not quite make it onto the Strange Maps blog, but this ‘map’ of Bermuda in the pond at Palm Grove is still very interesting. This photo shows the view over Bermuda from the south west (about the view one would have flying in from Miami!
The pond and island is in the gardens of Palm Grove, a private house belonging to the Gibbons family. They kindly open the gardens, with this pond, aviaries, succulent garden, fruit orchard, lawns, specimen trees and all sorts, to the public most days of the week.
06.09.2010
A fantastic sand sculpture, by the Sandtastic pros, at the entrance to Horseshoe Bay. Inspirational, but also slightly off putting when entering a competition! Definitely worth clicking on to view large!
It took three days to construct, and even took a beating in a heavy downpour the night before. Apparently it uses 100 tonnes of sand, though not sure who was counting!
Here are some more of my favourite sand castles from the competition:
‘Life’s a Beach’ by Gibbons Company employees
Beach Belle – she was our neighbouring plot
The general construction scene. ‘Lizard on de Rock’ is in the foreground of these two photos.
Our Dragon Storming the Castle again.
05.09.2010
The 15th Annual Sand Sculpture Contest was held this weekend. My daring friend and I, ably assisted by Anton and my mother, entered with a ‘Dragon Storming the Castle’ affair (title thanks to Mark Tatem).
From a lump of sand…
..we carved out our castle and Very Friendly Dragon
We even won 2nd place in the Open category!
Team Sandtastic, professional sandcastle builders from Florida, were brought in to Bermuda by the Dept of Tourism (yup they really do spend their time flying here, there and everywhere building sandcastles!) to show off just what could be done with sand:
One of the pro's sculptures - a personification of Tropical Storm Fiona, which had threatened Bermuda over the weekend.
Winner of Professionals category
The overall winner, built by tourists from Venezuela and Greece
The general scene on Horseshoe Bay. It turned out to be a beautiful day, so there was a good turn out of participants (over 40 sculptures in total) and sightseers.
30.08.2010
A few sketches of some of the grasses (and weeds) in the lawn. Left to right: Bermuda Grass (which disappointingly turns out to be from Africa!), St Augustine Grass and Cape Weed.
29.08.2010
There is still some swell out on South Shore, due to Hurricane Danielle. With a northerly breeze, the crests of the waves were being tipped off in a rather photogenic way, and not onto our cameras!
Waves off John Smith’s Bay, Smith’s Parish
28.08.2010
Today, Hurricane Danielle performed the feat of turning sharply away from Bermuda. It followed its forecast track exactly, passing by a bit over 200 miles to our east. Yesterday I’d had very strong doubts about it, given the satellite video loop!
Another satellite InfraRed screen shot from tonight. Tropical Storm Earl is becoming a more recognisable shape in the bottom right corner.
27.08.2010
Hurricane Danielle
Not a photograph of mine today, but a screen shot of the Infra Red satellite loop on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/HURRLOOPS/huirloop.html.
It shows Hurricane Danielle, looking pretty as a picture, seemingly barrelling towards Bermuda (the tiny dot circled in red!). Currently they’re forecasting for her to swing to the north and bypass us by over 200 miles to our east. She’s going to have to make a mighty quick turn for that to happen! I might have some exciting photographs by the end of the weekend!
Tropical Storm Earl can just be made out in the bottom right corner…
