Boston Harbor

Into the light

adamg — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:28:56 -0400

Looking toward the Great Blue Hill (I think; somebody please correct me if I'm wrong) through a tunnel out of Fort Warren on Georges Island.

The fort is great for such framed views, given that it has zillions of slits and holes for cannons, guns and binoculars:

Oh, buoy!

adamg — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:23:01 -0400

Maria Varmazis glides past a Boston Harbor buoy.

Great view of crumbling bridge

adamg — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:46:11 -0400

Massmoga photographs the little used bridge to Long Island in Boston Harbor.

Eric Clapton's yacht in Boston Harbor

adamg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:39:21 -0400

No word if it's named Layla, though.

Rowes Wharf at night

adamg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:48:21 -0400

Greg MacKay takes a walk along the waterfront.

Out to sea

adamg — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:02:20 -0400

Rob Bellinger got some interesting shots as his plane approached Logan.

The lighthouse war

adamg — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:27:17 -0400

Boston 1775 begins the saga of Revolutionary War skirmishes over Boston Light, the lighthouse that basically controlled nighttime navigation into Boston Harbor.

They're just banning this now??

sheenaspleena — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:28:13 -0400

I am surprised that this wasn't banned before!
Yuck

Toilet Dumping Banned In Harbor
Violators Could Be Fined Up To $2,000
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/16806915/detail.html

It's amazing how clean Boston Harbor is these days

adamg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:00:04 -0400

It so clean the Coast Guard has to stop people from swimming across the harbor's shipping lanes. The Coast Guard reports:

A local citizen notified Coat Guard Sector Boston that the man had jumped into the water from [Rowes Wharf] at about 9:15 a.m., and was swimming north, across the ferry channel, toward the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse.

Two Coast Guard vessels responded and pulled the unidentified man out of the water. Click the photo below for some video of swimboy:

America's last lighthouse keeper

adamg — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:44:04 -0400

Reuters interviews Sally Snowman, the keeper of Boston Light. She has Ted Kennedy to thank for her job - he got a bill passed 20 years ago that requires the Coast Guard to keep an actual lighthouse keeper on duty there.

Via MetaBoston.