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).
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.
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.
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.”
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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