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Entry tags:
- adventures,
- boat,
- cruise,
- photos,
- revels
And now, pictures
So, we parked in Boston right near Rowe’s Wharf.
They have so little room at their outdoor restaurant that they have to float the band on a barge just off the shore.
This is me.
I think these things on the harbor walk are pieces of art. But, I couldn’t find anything about what they are, who made them or why...
When I was young I thought it would be the coolest thing in the world to live here.
But, I’ve grown out of that. Now I only think it would be on the top 10...
Oh no! It’s Codzilla!
Next to the Aquarium is a not so tall ship.
Is that a short ship? An average height ship?
In front of the aquarium are their seals. They used to be open to the public, but now are all glassed in.
I wondered about the seals being so active. Then, I noticed their toys in the tank look like DNA helixes. So, obviously this is some sort of secret society sign for genetically modified seals.
On the side of the water across from Codzilla I saw this beat up helmet. I don’t know what went on, but I suspect either the seals or Codzilla got an extra feeding.
Despite the Aquarium I did see something in the wild I hadn’t seen before. Segways!
I remember when driving over this bridge was the main way to get to the conference center on the other side.
When looking for a public bathroom, I find these signs to be mocking.
Good old South Station. Home of trains that go from Boston to Florida or Boston to the west coast. Also home to public bathrooms.
I know I’m biased because I was born there, but I like Boston.
This is the very small part of the city that was actually there 380 years ago when my family first got here.
While I wandered around, my wife had waited by the dock with her iPad.
Finally, our ship came in.
My wife and I might have found some waterfront property in our price range!
We left behind the fancy ships.
We headed out of the inner harbor fairly quickly, but still didn’t catch up with the airport water shuttle.
I didn’t think the boat went all the way to Nantucket.
(Nantucket used to use light ships instead of light houses as the light houses couldn’t stay up on the sand bars around the island. So, they floated ships around the whole island. This is the biggest one of them brought in for work.)
We sang pretty much the whole way out.
It is nice to sing songs about shipping out of Boston as you float away form the city.
Going under the landing pattern is quite loud.
When they have you sing shanties, they actually make you do the rope pulling motions.
My mother used to take us for picnics on Castle Island, which is not an island at all...
We were told that the LNG tanks on the far side of the harbor are the worlds biggest pieces of copywrited art.
I have to admit when I heard that I thought “Really? I bet I could do bigger if I had some help...”
Codzilla did come past us quite quickly as we got to the outer harbor.
Apparently their cruise involves doing donuts in the water under the sewerage treatment plant towers.
Their ads talk about how it is a fast, wet ride. I didn’t see anything in them about dosing you with waste water...
This is the ship that had been docked next to the Aquarium and its genetically enhanced seals.
We got to the main entrance to the harbor before we turned back. Although some islands continue out towards the south side of the harbor for a good ways more, north east is clear for a long, long way.
So, we turned around and headed back into the harbor.
(Due to the fact it has come up several times in several different ways in the last two days, where we turned around was less then a mile from where they caught that large great white shark a few years ago. Remember, you don’t have to be the fastest swimmer, you just have to look the least like a seal when doing it...)
As we turned around, the sun was starting to set.
This little tower is all that is left of the island that the pirate curse sank.
The moon, in the upper right corner, was much easier to see in person.
The weather was as close to perfect I’ve ever seen in Boston harbor.
Several people have asked me if this was the ship we went on.
No. It wasn’t.
The inner harbor seemed pretty crowded as we headed back in.
That’s a big container ship under the plane, not a few city blocks coming up the channel at us as you might assume from its size.
This boat followed us from the harbor entrance all the way back. I told my wife I thought they were pirates. She said something about wakes and breezes. She used to sail. I fell off of a sailboat once...
The scale of this container ship is hard to get. But, each of those containers on its deck is the size of a tractor trailer...
The only place I saw any amount of floating waste in the harbor was right behind that big container ship.
Maybe they only stirred it up and didn’t leave it, I don’t know.
(When I was young, things like that were fairly common. So, the harbor has gotten a lot better in the last 47 years...)
Night was defiantly falling as came back into the inner harbor.
Then, once we docked, we had to find the car in the under harbor garage.
All in all, it was a great trip!
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Again boat ride with sea shanties sounds fantastic!
:-)
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*waves hands to lure to New England*
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As long-time Revels types, maybe we should do this next year. :)
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