Bring a piece of Bermuda home with you

Winfield Todd, one of our beloved Bellmen, loves giving our guests a signature piece of our island to bring back home.

Bring an empty spice jar to Bermuda with you and Winfield will fill it up with pink sand from Warwick Long Bay Beach on South Shore.

He tries to give a bottle of pink sand to as many guests as he can as they are leaving the hotel. He also gives two postcards — one a photo of Warwick Long Bay Beach  where he collects the sand, and the other a photo of Johnny Barnes.

This local Bermudian stands every morning at Crow Lane roundabout from 5 to 10 a.m. waving to everyone on their way to work. Sometimes called "the friendliest man in Bermuda," a statue was erected in that roundabout in his honor. Just another example of the friendly people of Bermuda.

Why is Bermuda's sand pink?

It isn’t crushed coral as many people assume, although there are bits of coral in the sand. The pink crystals are actually the pink and red shells of microscopic insects, foraminifera, one of the most abundant single-cell organisms in the ocean.

The foraminifera live on the underside of reefs and the sea floor. When they die, the currents offshore smash their shells and they tumble onto Bermuda’s beaches with each lapping wave.
(Source: experiencebermuda.com)