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Moving Made Easy

Are you moving back home after years of living away? Or maybe you’re relocating to Bermuda for the first time? Either way, we know this can be an exciting – and stressful - time. We also know that packing up your life and shipping it across the ocean is fraught with complications, not the least of which is ensuring your possessions arrive safely - and on time. But it is also true that no other experience is going to test…


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Bermuda Beasts: 8 Facts About The Purple Sea Urchin

Sea Urchins are easily spotted in the shallow waters throughout Bermuda. They are especially abundant in Hamilton Harbour and Harrington Sound. 1. Sea urchins move slowly with their tube feet, translucent appendages that they can retract into their tests (shells).…


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3 Things to Pick and Plant This Month

Spring is at its peak in May offering many opportunities for dotting vases filled with flowers around the house. As for gardening, it is time to plan for heat resistant plants to get you through the summer months. To Pick:…


Nature

Field Notes: The Palmetto

Amongst the seventeen endemic plants of Bermuda, is one palm, Sabal bermudana, popularly known as the palmetto. This palm has undoubtedly figured in Bermuda literature as frequently as the native cedar. May writers have told of the various uses to…


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Bermuda Beasts: Tiger Sharks

The tiger shark is the fourth-largest shark - only beaten in size by the whale, basking and great white sharks - weighing in at 1300 pounds and reaching up to 15 feet in length. Of Bermuda's shark populations, perhaps the…

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Governor Laffan’s Fern

Jennifer Davidson’s beautiful painting of Bermuda’s endemic Governor Laffan’s fern (Diplazium laffanianum) pictured above, was included in an exhibition entitled “Botanical Art Worldwide: Flora of Bermuda,” in 2018. Perhaps she could have painted an equally exquisite endemic Bermudiana but that…