Bermuda Footnotes

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Our last few days on the island were spent checking off food and foraging adventures from the list. Here I am kicking back in the cottage feeling quite accomplished! We visited the Royal navy Cemetary on the last of the blustery days. It is one of the most picturesque and cool graveyards I have plundered with my camera. Complete with roosters and palm trees. The light cooperated and I can't wait to get some shots into the editing mode! Yesterday we headed out to Tom Moores Jungle which was, well, a walk through some native plant life with a few cool caves and grottos. Before embarking we had a breakfast plate at a Filipino cafe and had a fine ethnic experience. Slices of BQ pork next to a lovely mold of rice topped with an over easy egg along with some delish vinegar sauce. After the jungle trek we go to the Swizzle Inn and have some great nachos. We have high priced cocktails and mine tastes like a cherry tootsie pop and doesn't give me a buzz. The bar is the first tavern on the Island and gets a bit crazy during tourist season I'm sure. I'm sticking with the Island cafe and the chicken Roti!  Oh yeah, we then scout out the local Jamaican Jerk chicken joint in Hamilton. We get a giant container of off the grill spicy legs and thighs. Best priced food we have found and great sides. At home we kayak around our glassy bay and snap some tugboats before we eat mo chicken. I have to get the space heater from the hostess cause I can't get the damp island chill out of my bones and we watch the movie Taken with Liam Neeson. Today we walk the beach to say goodbye and I try my wide angle lens but the sun is in my face. Still, the south beaches are money here. Then we take the bus to Hamilton and eat some great Rockfish tacos at the Pickled Onion right on the harbor. We get a local beer and it's the first good one I've had on the island. Then finally, off to the Ferry which comes with our bus pass and we only took it this one time. We go to the Dockyard again. It's fun and quick and comfortable. Lots of people are at the Dockyard and the shops and restaurants are open. Local folk are there in their Sunday best looking way cool and old school. On the way home I listen to a darling old island lady talking to her friends in her island accent. Either west Indies or Caribbean. I'm telling you, you better say good day and thank you to the bus drivers and everyone else you see around here. What a joyful change of pace to be in a place where politeness, smiles and hellos are not only the norm but the required form of behavior. We need to show school children videos of Bermuda to teach them some proper behavior. I love it here. I've seen most of it now, but I'ma come back some day, yes M'am!