Bermuda 2017 - Day 2

It turns out that Bermuda averages somewhere around 4, 5, or 6 inches (depending whom you believe) of rain in January. (Also in every other month.)

The island averages more annual rainfall than almost everywhere in the U.S. (not Florida).

A Bermuda info site I (just) read claimed that one can expect some amount of rain on an average of 21 days in January. Who knew?

Thursday, January 5th was one of those days.

Had I found this list of Rainy Day Activities (scroll down), we might have done one of those things. If I recall correctly, it was raining so hard that nobody even wanted to leave the house, even with rain gear, to walk down to the bus stop.

I eventually ventured out for a walk in the rain, but didn't go very far.

As you can see in the radar map above, there was a brief break from the rain in the afternoon, so we went for a walk.

Our first stop was the nearby Unfinished Church.    ←(interesting history)

The structure was closed due to (alleged) safety concerns, but we walked around the outside and got a few peeks inside.

Having exhausted the selection of tourist attractions in close proximity to the house, we headed down into town, towards the harbor.

We roamed out to Ordnance Island, which (I just learned) was created by connecting several smaller islands that had previously been used for executions. Cheerful!

Other than this green beauty, there are only two other buildings on the small island: the ferry terminal and the customs office. But there's also a replica of a ship named Deliverance.     ←(more interesting history)

I think that's the customs office in the background.


Upon safely retreating from the island, we verified that St. Peter's Church was still there, and toured around town for about half an hour.

Despite the rain being necessary to fill the water cisterns, it might have been nice to spread it out over a few more days. I suspect the rainfall totals for January 2017 might have beaten the average.

I was about to speculate about what the tent was for, but while trying to figure out where this photo was taken (that's Somers Garden [←strange history], it turns out), I noticed this photo in the Google search results. (Credit "Keith Marshall".) Hmm.

I have no explanation for this one:

I think we ate at the White Horse Pub & Restaurant (site currently down) that night.

The weather forecast suggested that the rain was finally finished, so we spent some time figuring out how the bus systems works and made big plans for the next day.