Here are some pics of our visit to the Fort St. Catherine Museum in Bermuda while on our cruise. They are in no particular order, I just walked around and took pictures as I went. It’s a fascinating place; lots of heavy guns, ammo storage, tunnels and a room with a few uniforms on display. There’s lots of placards throughout; I’m one of those guys who reads pretty much all of them but didn’t have the time. There’s also a room with several dioramas of the various forts on the island, I took pics of those as well. The museum is located in the town of St. George.
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Beautiful pics. And an interesting museum.. I haven’t been to Bermuda for some odd reason cause I used to do a lot of fishing close by.
Plus it’s refreshing to see stuff like this from a cruise since all I see are flights over chicken nuggets and drink plans etc over the past few years.. 
But really thanks for putting these up.
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Thanks for your reply Robert. This is only the second proper vacation my wife and I have taken in about 10 years. Loving iWe are on Norwegian Cruise Lines, the Aqua. This ship is amazing. We went ashore on Bermuda for a few days for shopping, the Museum, and ate at a great place called The White Horse. The food was excellent as was the service. We’ve been talking to the locals too, everyone here is so cool. Spent a day at Horseshoe Bay beach, and topped it off with a catamaran trip a few miles out to snorkel. Just incredible! I did get stung by a jellyfish, but felt better immediately after drinking two ice cold Moosehead Canadian Lagers afterwards! Sailing back to NYC as we speak. But I digress…
I wish I had more time to take more and better pics. The sheer size and weight of these guns and ammo fascinated me. Also the engineering involved with building these fortifications. This was a pleasant surprise as I did not know Bermuda had these forts. But no hobby shops that I know of…
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Excellent photos. Thanks for posting. I always find museums to be the better choice on vacation as opposed to looking for hobby shops. 
That is one of the toughest juggling acts that museums face. Labels that are too lengthy get glossed over, even if some people do want to take the time to read them in their entirety. Labels that are too short obviously don;t convey enough information for some folks. The trend has been for shorter labels with QC codes for those who want to investigate further. It also helps with flow.
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Wonky cell phone service has prevented me from responding sooner lol, but one of the placards I was most interested in had to do with the Admiralty Floating Dry docks, I’d never heard of them before and have been trying to find out more. Talk about incredible engineering feats, these things were massive dry docks that the British built in England and towed some 4000 miles or so to Bermuda to repair ships because they couldn’t build permanent ones on the island due to the porous sandstone. I think 20 or so were built over the years into the 1940s or so. There are some remnants of them around the island, but I didn’t get around to seeing them.
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