Walking along South Road here in Smith's Parish, a relatively open and in-the-boonies area...shots out to the ocean (next stop Azores or Europe); of the nice little sandy beach and bay maybe a quarter mile away; South Road use - this is a major road here in Bermuda (South, North and Middle - someone very practical named these highways!) For the record, this actually IS a wider road than, oh, 90% or so of them. The stone 'hut' is a typical bus shelter - you either have nothing or you have this nice protection; the bus stops are marked by pink or blue poles - pink goes into town (i.e. Hamilton), blue is coming away from town.
Often not a heck of a lot of room at the side of the road to wait for that bus, either.
Hurricane Fabian, about 8 years ago (a hurricane impacts the Island about once every 8 years on average, but most of them sort of mess with power lines and trees and inadequately secured windows. Fabian, tho, was a biggie), hit South Road east of here pretty hard. You can see where the repaving took place - the road was washed out and undercut, isolating that end of the island. The metal railing - I think this may be the only instance of it on the island - is tied into a sort of retaining system to keep the road in place.
I think I mentioned moon gates earlier - this is a nice one, tho the ironwork needs some help.
A horse-drawn carriage just went by - I see them on nice weekends or for wedding parties, but it is now after dark so that was a little unusual.
Met my neighbor in the unit immediately below me - Jen, a pharmacist and runner. Seems a nice sort.
My work on the Dockyard EIS is, I think, done, and I got bosslady the answer she needed re status of National Sports Centre plans. She seems satisfied so far. I asked about more casework, and so will be leading on the Sports Centre filing, the Coral Beach/Horizons revamp into a Four Seasons resort (right now for the staff housing proposal, but the rest of it is coming in), and another 8 or so proposals. It is a great way to learn the island. I reminded her that things I could walk to from my apartment or along the bus routes were very doable.
But I'm glad the EIS stuff is done for the moment. I kept overdoing it for what she needed - the California experience prompting way more analysis and explanation than the Board wants here - and eventualy succeeded in boiling the discussion on impacts on water quality, marine ecology, noise and vibration, air quality, etc down to a couple paragraphs each. That stuff kept me up (along with these stupid chickens!) the last few nights (again PG experience has cast a long shadow), so tonight I should collapse early, and NOT wake up at 5.30 to write reports.
More photos in a few minutes!
Hugs, all (I'm generous); I love hearing from folks and actually could do with the contact right now, at a lonely-feeling point.
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