Things to do
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Bermuda Craft Market
The old cooperage of 1831, its timber roof still carried on the original trusses, given over to stalls of island makers working in cedar, glass and cloth. Several of them work at the bench while the market is open.
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Clocktower Mall
The Navy's great storehouse of 1856, its twin towers holding a clock and a tide dial, converted into a arcade of shops along the original stone floor. It is where the cruise passengers come ashore.
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Ireland Island
The long finger of land at the western end of the chain, taken over almost entirely by the Royal Navy from 1809 and built by convict labour shipped from Britain. What is not Dockyard is now a cruise pier, a ferry stop and open ground.
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National Museum of Bermuda
The island's largest museum, held inside the Keep, the fortified upper yard the Royal Navy built to guard its stores. Commissioner's House at the top of it is the earliest cast iron framed house in the world, and the Hall of History mural inside runs the whole story of Bermuda around one room.
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Snorkel Park Beach
A small beach in the shelter of the Dockyard walls, reached through a tunnel cut in the fortifications, with a roped swimming area and gear for hire. It is a beach club as much as a beach and it runs loud in season.