Matthew Spong's Commonplace Book - Bermuda Oct 6th - Nonsuch Island!

The Cahow is a petrel, now the Bermudan national bird. It doesn't look particularly fascinating. It has an amazing call, which apparently sounds like "cahow" to someone. It changed the course of history. ... We caught the usual taxi vans from the hotel, heading east, clutching our packed lunch boxes from the hotel. I noticed that the Bermudans have a custom of waving to other drivers they know in a very peculiar way. Imagine a large doorknob at shoulder height right in ...