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Bermuda: South Shore By Mary Johnson Tweedy SOUTH SHORE Along the South Shore of Warwick and Southampton are many beautiful beaches with magnificent views of surf breaking on the atolls. During the spring the oleanders along this road make it even more beautiful. Many tourists (and even residents) take this trip by carriage. You can take a box lunch for a beach picnic or stop at The Reefs Beach Club for a drink or a meal. FAIRYLANDS AND SPANISH POINT Another popular carriage ride is from Hamilton out through the residential section Pembroke known as Fairylands. Here are the homes of many old Bermuda families who wanted to live close to their offices and stores in Hamilton. For a somewhat longer ride you can continue out to Spanish Point. Despite such place names as this and Spanish Rock (or Marks) there was never a permanent Spanish settlement in Bermuda. Early settlers found traces of an encampment on the Point and assumed Spaniards had landed there. This has recently been confirmed by Henry Wilkinson in The Adventurers of Bermuda. AQUARIUM, DEVIL'S HOLE AND THE CAVES The Bermuda Government Aquarium has probably the finest collection of tropical marine fish in the world. Many specimens were taken from local waters and others have been collected by interested contributors, including Vincent Astor, whose yacht Nourmahal was fitted with special tanks to bring rare fish from the South Seas, Cocos Islands, the Galapagos Islands and elsewhere. Louis S. Mowbray, curator of the Aquarium as was his father before him, is one of the world's leading authorities on tropical fish. Adjoining the Aquarium is the Government Museum with mounted exhibits of fish as well as other marine life, local woods, a topographical map of the Islands, etc. Behind it is a small zoological garden, and you can feed the animals if you bring peanuts or bread. The Devil's Hole is a deep natural fish pool. In it are angel fish, groupers, sharks and turtles. From a platform above the pool, visitors "fish" with baited but hookless lines for the groupers who let just as they are about to be landed. Since 1843 visitors have been paying admission fees to see this strange natural aquarium that was probably a "cave" until the roof fell in. There are beautiful caves along Harrington Sound, and you should visit at least one. Crystal Cave and Leamington Cave, the two most popular ones, are lighted by electricity. The stalagmites and stalactites, formed by the dripping of water for eons, have assumed many lovely and spectacular effects. The caves were not discovered until the twentieth century when a small boy lost his ball down a hole and followed it. The water in both rises and falls with the tides in Castle Harbor and visitors travel through Crystal Cave, the larger of the two, on pontoon-supported "bridges." Prospero's Cave in the same area is sometimes described by colored carriage drivers as the place "Mr. Shakespeare went to get out of the tempest," and visitors are guided through it by flaming torches. While in the neighborhood you can have luncheon or dinner at Tom Moore's Tavern or The Plantation, or a sandwich at the snack bar at Crystal Cave. On the return trip you can go by way of the North Shore and stop at the Lili Perfume Factory, where perfume is made from local flowers, and at the Bermuda Ceramics Studio which specializes in handmade models of tropical fish and flowers designed as ornaments, vases, book ends, etc. If you prefer you can drive through the Castle Harbor-Tucker's Town area (where many wealthy Americans and Britishers have homes) and come back along the South Shore.Other miscellaneous trips and points of particular interest are:  The Spanish Marks near Spittal Pond--see Chapter 10.    The Agricultural Station on the South Shore Road in Paget.    English Military Garrison at Prospect in Devonshire.    The Sea Gardens in a glass-bottom boat.    Air tour of the Islands by sea plane. Home