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EXPLORING ST. GEORGE, BERMUDA | TOBACCO BAY BEACH | TRAVEL VLOG

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A colonial capital, a hidden cove, and a fort that closes at six — St. George has all three.

World Nomac’s latest travel vlog trades Hamilton’s bustle for the slower rhythm of St. George, the former colonial capital on Bermuda’s eastern tip. Getting there means a 45- to 60-minute public bus ride, but the payoff is a town that looks and feels frozen in the 17th century. The itinerary hits a local restaurant, a snorkeling cove tucked between limestone rocks, and a coastal fort that shuts its doors just as the crew arrives.

• St. George was founded in 1612 and named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2000, making it one of Bermuda’s oldest continuously settled towns.
• Tobacco Bay Beach is a compact national park cove known for shore-accessible snorkeling among shallow coral reefs and parrotfish, a contrast to the wide-open Horseshoe Bay Beach.
• Fort St. Catherine’s museum tour costs $7 for adults and runs about 20 minutes, but closes daily at 6 p.m. — the exact deadline the travelers missed.

A Slower Pace Than Hamilton

Bermuda’s capital, Hamilton, runs on administrative energy and cruise-ship foot traffic. St. George runs on neither. The town’s narrow lanes and pastel colonial buildings give it what the vlog frames as a distinctly laid-back atmosphere, the kind of place where the bus ride itself — 45 to 60 minutes from Hamilton — becomes part of the appeal rather than an inconvenience. It’s the same instinct that draws travelers to slow-paced island towns documented elsewhere on the channel, like the crew’s stop in El Nido in the Philippines.

The recommendation for lunch came from the creator’s Airbnb host, a detail that matters because it points toward Wahoo’s Bistro & Patio, a waterside restaurant known locally for seafood and Bermudian dishes rather than tourist-menu filler. It’s the kind of tip that separates a itinerary built off local word-of-mouth from one built off guidebooks.

Tobacco Bay’s Compact Reef

Tobacco Bay Beach is small by design. Where Horseshoe Bay Beach stretches across a wide crescent of pink sand, Tobacco Bay is an enclosed cove framed by limestone outcrops that block the swell and keep the water calm. That geography is exactly what makes it a snorkeling destination: the shallow reef sits close enough to shore that swimmers don’t need a boat to reach the coral or the parrotfish darting through it.

Compact, enclosed, and calm — Tobacco Bay trades size for a snorkeling reef you can reach without ever leaving the shore.

That trade-off — scale for accessibility — is the whole pitch of the cove, and it’s why the vlog treats it as a highlight distinct from Bermuda’s bigger, better-known beaches.

Fort St. Catherine After Hours

The route north from Tobacco Bay leads past local landmarks toward Fort St. Catherine, a 17th-century artillery fortress built to guard Bermuda’s coastline and now run as a historic museum with tunnels, ramparts, and colonial military exhibits. The catch: the fort closes daily at 6 p.m., and the crew arrived after the gates shut.

With the interior tour off the table — a $7-per-adult, roughly 20-minute walk through the museum — the group settled for the exterior, taking in the ramparts and the coastal view the fort was built to protect from outside the walls. It’s the same kind of missed-timing moment that shows up across independent travel content, whether it’s a closed fort in Bermuda or a locked gate on the Trans-Catalina Island Trail.

Fort St. Catherine’s exterior alone gives a sense of scale that the vlog leans on for its final shots — thick stone ramparts overlooking the same Atlantic approach that colonial gunners once watched for incoming ships. The tour stays on the to-do list for the next visit, six o’clock permitting.