October 7, 2014

After breakfast (a bacon, ham and cheese omelet for me, and tomato, ham and cheese omelet for Bonnie) we bought ferry tokens and rode up to Hamilton.  The purpose of our excursion was to visit the Bermuda Art Museum’s exhibit “A View from the Edge.”  The first exhibit was a piece by local artist Amil Zanders entitled “When the Bough Breaks.”  A large portion of the work is made up of crocheted circles – and an inspiration for another work by local cruiser Bonnie Belle.

We also stopped at a small museum which houses intricate models of the “Sea Venture” – the ship which brought the original settlers to Bermuda (via a hurricane and a shipwreck), and models of the two smaller craft which the survivors made out of the wreckage (the “Deliverance” and the “Patience”) and then sailed on to Jamestown Colony in Virginia, completing the mission for which they sailed almost a year earlier.

While sailing into Hamilton’s harbor, we noticed a large church rising over the tops of the waterfront building and made that part of our trip.  We walked up to The Anglican Church of Bermuda and went inside.  It is a magnificent structure completed in 1911.  The original building was constructed in 1855, but was destroyed by an arsonist.  The photographs are the altar taken from the nave, and the pulpit.  Behind the high altar are 15 statues.  Jesus is in the center.  Luke is the 5th from the left.

After returning to the Explorer of the Seas we had lunch in the Windjammer, having arrived back on board too late to go to the dining room.  Closed circuit for Mary and Judy – we witnessed water balloons (imported from Montreal to the Explorer).

After lunch two ladies stopped us to thank me for the talk on Bermuda.  One of them said as they were on a bus driving around the island she was pointing out things and talking about them and when asked how she knew so much she said, “I went to the lecture on King’s Wharf.”  My head swelled.

As I type this it is 10 minutes until “all aboard.”  I will give my second talk of this voyage – “Flight 19 and the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle” – tomorrow, and then we dock in New Jersey on Thursday before sailing back to Bermuda and points east.

Until tomorrow, then.

TTFN!