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Walsingham Nature Reserve

Park
Park  ·  Hamilton, Bermuda 32.3502°N   64.7117°W

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on Walsingham Nature Reserve

Time needed
45 minutesOut and back on foot
Best time
Daylight onlySunrise to sunset
Cost
FreeTrust land, kept open
Effort
Uneven karstSinkholes, poison ivy
Access
Caves by permitHelmet, shoes, torch
Guide
Not neededGo on your own

Tom Moore's Tavern is at one end of this shaded path and the Blue Hole car park at the other, under a kilometre apart. Walk it for the caves and grottoes along the way.

Visiting

The path is red, hard-caked soil, dust carried on the jet stream from storms over Africa. Past a fence meant to stop vehicles, which walkers get round at one corner, the trail runs under a tunnel of Surinam cherry. Castle Harbour shows on the left, pools and holes on the right.

Side paths lead off it. One near the tavern end drops to an underwater cave; another, opposite a second, smaller Blue Hole, leads to Walsingham Cave, the large grotto in the east of the reserve.

The main path comes out on Walsingham Lane beside the tavern. The Idwal Hughes reserve, woodland of pinnacle rock and caves, opens off the same road.

Know before you goSwimming in the grottoes is not permitted, to protect rare cave life, and fishing is banned in Walsingham Cave. Stay on the path and do not swim in any water. Rats also swim in the caves.

Nearby

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