Things to do
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Carter House
One of the oldest houses in Bermuda, dated to about 1640 and built by descendants of the Sea Venture's Christopher Carter, kept as a museum of St David's life. It survived the building of the airbase around it.
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Castle Islands Fortifications
The earliest English fortifications in the New World, begun in 1612 on the islets guarding the old ship channel into Castle Harbour, and abandoned when the channel silted. They are reached only by boat and stand more or less as they were left.
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Clearwater Beach
A sheltered north facing beach on former American base land, with a lifeguard, a playground and calm shallow water. Turtle Bay next door is reached along the sand.
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Cooper's Island Nature Reserve
The eastern tip of the island, closed to the public while NASA tracked spacecraft from it and opened as a reserve after the Americans left in 1995. There are four beaches along it, a boardwalk through the dunes and an observation tower on the old tracking mount.
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Nonsuch Island
A fifteen acre island in Castle Harbour rebuilt over sixty years into a working model of pre colonial Bermuda, and the last refuge of the cahow, a seabird thought extinct for three centuries. Access is by permit on guided visits only, which is the point of it.
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St. David's Head
The cliffs at the eastern end of Bermuda, where the reef platform drops away and the next land is Africa. The battery on the point and the paths along the edge are open ground.
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St. David's Lighthouse
A stone lighthouse of 1879 on the eastern cliffs, painted with a red band and built from limestone quarried on the spot. The Newport Bermuda Race finishes off it, and one of its two divisions carries its name.
