Day trip to St. George

When I flew out of Bermuda to go back to VA, I noticed this amazing peninsula in St. George where this road that had a beach on either side of it, let out to a rocky cliff. So last weekend Sarah and I decided to take a day trip to St. George. I figured while we were out there, I might as well show her some of the cool things I had found out there. So, we hopped on the bike and headed out there. Now, doubling up on the scooter isn't so bad when we're just driving around town, but it's really not the ideal way to explore. Spending a couple hours driving around on the thing tends to make you pretty sore. But it was worth it.

St. George is really a couple of islands that are all interconnected by some bridges. It is the Northern and Eastern most points of the island. In order to get there you have to go across the causeway as you can see in the bottom left of the map. It is really windy there generally but this weekend it was nice enough to stop and take some pictures.

Yea, I know I look pretty goofy in that helmet. First we went up to the Lover's Lake area briefly before heading back down and going around the airport. We were on the way to the Lost at Sea Memorial when we drove by St. David's lighthouse and decided to go check it out because it was a really clear day. It was really cool. Not only could you go up in it, but it was free and you could actually go out on the balcony on the top.

 St. David's Lighthouse

 You know the Whelpley's love the Hokies!!

We could actually see the beach that I saw from the airport to the left of Sarah's head

 The fort and Lost at Sea Memorial are where the island comes out at a point



After checking out the lighthouse, we were going to go to the Memorial and Fort, but I made a wrong turn in the jumbled up mess of one way streets and we wound up closer to the beach so we decided to go there instead as the weather was really nice. We made our way to Turtle Beach and Clearview Beach out on Coopers Island which was the beach I saw from the plane and what is directly to the left of Sarah's head in the panoramic pic above. The beaches were all beautiful.

Watching planes land from the beach

 The spot where I was sitting had surf from both sides hit me at the same time.

Though cold it was very relaxing.

 Sarah packing up the bike outside of Gumbey's

After we had our fill of the beach, we got back on the bike and finally made our way to the Lost at Sea Memorial. It is behind this old fort with a lot of GIANT cannons. It also has a beautiful view of the lighthouse we were in earlier and the beach we had just left, though I've already posted some pictures of that stuff in earlier posts, here are pics of us climbing on stuff were probably aren't supposed to be climing on.



After driving around St. George and exploring some more forts and the memorial we had worked up quite an appetite so we decided to go to the Swizzle Inn for some Burgers and Ice Cream. Hey, it's the weekend. This place is famous for it's self named drink the "Swizzle". Honestly, it's nothing special though the locals and tourists seem to love them. From what I can gather the recipe is:

8 oz Rum (Gosling's Black Seal)

Juice of 2 Lemon Or Limes

5 oz Pineapple Juice

5 oz Orange Juice

2 oz Grenadine Or Bermuda Falernum

6 Dashes Angostura Bitters

Crushed Ice