Dockyard's full name is The Royal
Naval Dockyard. But that's too much to say... It's
located on the opposite tip of the island from St. George.
Unfortunately, I don't have any good
pictures of the place. The weather was bad the day we went out
there, so I didn't want to take any dreary pictures. The
closest I got was the picture of Ft. St. Catherine from the ferry we
took to get there, and that was about an hour beforehand!
Dockyard used to be one of Britain's
main naval outpost in the western hemisphere after the US gained
independence. It was built in the 1820s. It's an impressive
place. I would have liked to have seen it while still in
use. Today it's mainly a museum and shops. They've
turned the "Great Eastern Storehouse" into a shopping mall.
There are also many artisans shops
located there, you can find some really nice paintings, as well as
pottery. It's all a bit expensive though.
One of our stops here is the Frog and
Onion restaurant. It's inside what used to be one of the
storehouses; the decor is - unique.
It's a little hard to
get to Dockyard from St. George. There's only one ferry that
goes straight there, and the only one coming straight back leaves
Dockyard about an hour after the first one gets there. So
generally what you have to do is either take the bus back, or take a ferry
to Hamilton and a bus back from there. It is worth
going to though, at least once.
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