Bermuda 2011

I registered this morning for Round the Sound, a 10km open water swim in Harrington Bay, Bermuda, on October 16, 2011.  We’ll stay here, at the Grotto Bay Resort.  Should be a nice trip.

The wreck of the Sea-Venture is mostly in a museum on the island now, but 2011 does mark the 400th anniversary of a certain play that seems to draw upon accounts of that Atlantic hurricane of July 1609.  The disaster ended up, in a convoluted way, to the rescuing of Jamestown, a permanent British settlement on Bermuda, and this map.

I suppose I should promise not to give long lectures about Shakespeare and oceanic culture to my fellow swimmers.  Besides, it might make them swim faster…