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Saddle Up in the Sand

Experience the south-shore beaches at their most tranquil on an early-morning trot through the dunes with Spicelands Riding Centre (50 Middle Rd., Warwick; 441/238-8212; spicelandsriding.com; $80 per person, minimum age 10).

Visit the Dockyard

Once the British Navy’s key strategic defense post in the Atlantic, the Royal Naval Dockyard, at the island’s west end, has been transformed into a pedestrian village, with shops, restaurants, a glassworks, and the Bermuda Maritime Museum. The popular Dolphin Quest pro-gram (441/234-4464; dolphinquest.org; dolphin encounters from $100 for three people) operates in a lagoon within the six-acre fortress known as the Keep; kids five and up can use water scooters to whiz along next to dolphins.

See Under The Sea

At the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo (40 North Shore Rd., Flatts Village, Hamilton; bamz.org; 441/293-2727), zero in on the terrific North Rock Exhibit, where visitors can stand eye- to-eye with grouper, a moray eel, and sharks swimming in one of the world’s largest living-reef tanks.

Pedal The Bermuda Railway Trail

This mostly flat path runs along an old railroad bed from one end of the island to the other. Eve Cycles (441/236-6247; evecycles.com) delivers rentals to hotels. Note that a bike is called a “pedal cycle” here—bicycle is the Bermudan word for “moped.”

Go Diving Without Getting Wet

The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (40 Crow Lane, Pembroke; 441/297-7219; buei.bm), on the outskirts of Hamilton, has one of the world’s largest shell collections and a seven-minute simulated capsule dive to the bottom of the Atlantic.

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