Just playing tourist - The Hull Truth

Doug in Bermuda · 03-10-2006, 03:36 PM

Beautiful day today & I had to make a run to the Wst End to pick up canvases that had been rezippered so I thought, why not take the camera?

Some of these locations should be very familiar to those who have been here before.

Enjoy. No photoshop, except to resize, no filter used.

JALICHTY · 03-10-2006, 03:50 PM

Doug:

That is absolutely criminal of you to send those photos to those of us who live where the winter temps routinely stay below freezing and the lakes are frozen over and , and, and. Beautiful pictures, I can see why people would love to live there.

03-10-2006, 04:10 PM

Great pix. I actually snorkled the area in pic #11. Great place

ebrady · 03-10-2006, 04:19 PM

What a dump!

/jealous

shoebag22 · 03-10-2006, 04:23 PM

I HATE YOU!

BestMate · 03-10-2006, 04:39 PM

Yes...yes....yes...a b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l day today.

I went out on my lunch hour for a cruise! I couldn't stand being land bound any longer.

Actually Doug, I was very surprised just how clear the water is today considering that there have been gale foce winds for the past 7 days.

I was out at low tide and saw reef heads I have never seen before in the channel going down to Crow Lane!!!!!! Paradise Lakes was like a bathtub, Head of the Lane and north side of Long Island bottom was gorgeous ...

Classic25 · 03-10-2006, 06:26 PM

It was 55, raining and blowing 35 there 5 days ago.

Beautiful place though.

Doug recognize this place?

Hill · 03-10-2006, 09:51 PM

Quote:

shoebag22 - 3/10/2006 1:23 PM

I HATE YOU!

Thats the first thing I thought.

BestMate · 03-10-2006, 10:50 PM

Hey classsic25 - You got a lotta nerve coming over here and not telling anyone! Were you at Grotto Bay? Where you here on business or pleasure?

Those boats are pointing just west of north so yeah it was a colder day. See the whitecaps in the distance?

That area over the bailey bridge (to the right of it) is slowly being replanted into a proper park. It was fiormally used as an offroad motocross track. I heard from a member of the Parks commission just this afternoon that most of the endemic plantings have been thriving over there. Eventually, those tall Casurina evergreen looking trees will be cut down when the Cedars are 7-10 feet tall.

Doug in Bermuda · 03-10-2006, 10:51 PM

Jalacity, we are actually coming out to share in your winter misery in less than 2 weeks. We will be in CO for a bit of snowboarding.

Classic25, It looks like you stayed at the Grotto Bay Hotel. We raftup a little off their beach every once in awhile, swim ashore & sample the products of their bar.

Looking at a satelite pic this evening it looks like we will be in for SOS weather tomorrow. Today was avery pleasant break.

bellsisland · 03-11-2006, 12:06 AM

Ok that is it, give me the names of any IT companys on the island I can either partner with or work for, because I would take a cut in pay to live in an area like that.

Dean

Classic25 · 03-11-2006, 10:28 AM

It won't be long. Another couple of weeks and you guys will be wearing shorts again. Wait a minute, everyone WAS wearing shorts!

I was there for a quick trip for work. On the ground less than 12 hours. (but I did manage to find the Swizzle Inn)

Next time I come I'll give you guys a shout!

auguste · 03-11-2006, 05:32 PM

Don't you just hate winters in the South

Great pics . . . THANKS

Doug in Bermuda · 03-11-2006, 06:06 PM

Auguste, I don't think you can complain too much about your winter this year. My daughter was supposed to go snowboarding at Dagmar today. They might have had some slush to ride on.

seapirate · 03-11-2006, 07:25 PM

beautiful pictures. I don´t mean to brag but here in Puerto Rico we boat year round. I was atually at the beach having a Corona on December 23. Temperature was in the high 80s. Sorry, everyone!!!

auguste · 03-11-2006, 07:39 PM

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seapirate - 3/11/2006 8:25 PM

beautiful pictures. I don´t mean to brag but here in Puerto Rico we boat year round. I was atually at the beach having a Corona on December 23. Temperature was in the high 80s. Sorry, everyone!!!

You do not sound very sorry

Doug

We have had a mild winter for being this far north . . . I have 3 ft snow banks and 4 inches of water in the parking area . . . a strange winter this year

ccguy · 03-12-2006, 10:41 PM

Doug - I'll be there in a month with my "bride" for her 4oth combined with a business trip. I'd like to put in an order now for some nice weather please!

We'll be the crazy ones swimming in the ocean that all the locals laugh at - still, the water will be warmer than what we get in the summer. Any secret local spots for beaching it?? I usually go for biz only but will have more free time this year.

Doug in Bermuda · 03-13-2006, 09:28 AM

Ccguy, if the hotel concierge tells you Horsehoe Bay, don't go there. It is in fact , in 2 of the pics but there are other beaches IMO far nicer & only a few steps away from Horsehoe Bay. Here's a couple of them. No concession stand. No umbrellas. A little walk to get to. No other people likely to be on the beach with you especially weekdays cause all the sheep go to Horseshoe Bay which is only a few hundred yards away from these.

If you get bored with beaching & stuff I should be about into bottom painting mode by mid April. I could get a roller & handle with your name on it.

CMP · 03-13-2006, 10:53 AM

How many miles from Bermuda to the nearest pt of land in the US???

CMP

Doug in Bermuda · 03-13-2006, 12:22 PM

At the end of about 580 miles due East of Cape Hattarass you would have one very tired crow.