Downwind to
NORTH
ROCK
Bermuda bump running
Words: Simon Winkley
Pics: Simon Winkley, Chris Brown
North Rock sits at the northern limit of a huge extinct volcano that
ceased to be active around 33 million years ago and it caught my
attention last year in the initial planning phase of my fourth trip to
Bermuda.
It is marked by an iconic navigational beacon, which rises magnificently from the
sea below. Today the volcano’s caldera is encircled by coral reef to the north and
west with a 138 large and small islands to the South and East that make up Bermuda
itself. The next landfall to the North is Nova Scotia – 1,000 miles away – or head west
560 miles to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
It is marked by an iconic navigational beacon, which rises magnificently from the
sea below. Today the volcano’s caldera is encircled by coral reef to the north and
west with a 138 large and small islands to the south and east that make up Bermuda
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