Adam Castiglioni snapped what looked like sunset on a really hot day this evening, although it was actually pretty pleasant.
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By adamg - 6/14/24 - 10:30 am
With a little help from her friends. Adam Castiglioni watched Old Ironsides today.
The MBTA reports that Boston Harbor ferry service could be delayed between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. because the USS Constitution is going on a sailabout around the harbor.
By adamg - 6/4/24 - 11:07 am
Adam Castiglioni watched the barque Juan Sebastián de Elcano glide into Boston Harbor on its way to a berth at the Charlestown Navy Yard late yesterday afternoon. The ship is a Spanish Navy training vessel, named for a Spanish navigator who sailed with Magellan - and completed his journey around the world after Magellan was killed in the Philippines in 1521.
By adamg - 6/3/24 - 11:34 am
The Harvard Gazette interviewed John Lowry, a physician at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, before he and three others set off from Menino Park in Charlestown on a bid to row to London in a 28-foot rowing vessel. They hope to get to Big Ben in 50 days.
By adamg - 5/17/24 - 1:39 pm
Lee Toma got some photos of the USS Constitution - and some of its officers and crew - on one of its periodic turnaround cruises on Boston Harbor this morning.
By adamg - 5/5/24 - 2:49 pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 report yesterday about all the dead fish on the rocks by the North Washington Street bridge and the Eliot School in the North End. Read more.
By adamg - 4/17/24 - 1:18 pm
Eric Bender spent some time this morning observing the Ever Fair, berthed in the Reserved Channel at the Conley Terminal. He noted it's 1,095 feet long - longer than the container ship that took out the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (although we don't have any bridges to takeout between the Reserved Channel and the open ocean). It also appears to be a reverse mullet: Party in the front, business in the back: Read more.
By adamg - 4/10/24 - 11:19 am
One day after the family of Jeanica Julce of Somerville sued the owner of the boat she was on just before she drowned - and the owner of another boat - both the boat owner and the federal government asked a federal government to reinstate her ban on lawsuits over the crash in state court, which she had lifted just last month. Read more.
By adamg - 4/9/24 - 8:55 am
Daymarker 5 in 2022, between Spectacle Island and Castle Island.
The family of Jeanica Julce of Somerville, who drowned in Boston Harbor in 2021 after the speed boat she was a passenger on hit a large, permanent navigational beacon off Spectacle Island, yesterday sued both Ryan Denver, the owner and captain of the Make It Go Away, and the operator of another boat the family charges struck Julce before speeding from the scene. Read more.
By adamg - 4/4/24 - 9:30 am
A National Park Service/Coast Guard camera on Boston Light, where the ocean meets Boston Harbor, recorded the sea's ragin' glory at 6:24 a.m.
Photo via Boston Timelapse, which reposts photos from Boston Light, Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights every hour.
By adamg - 4/1/24 - 2:07 pm
GBH takes a look at the health woes of giant ships belching diesel smoke from the cheapest possible grade of fuel that now routinely ply Boston Harbor.
By adamg - 3/19/24 - 1:19 pm
In 1966, a news photographer captured the construction of the concrete structure around what would become the giant tank at the heart of the New England Aquarium - which opened to the public in 1969, giving us a generation of children who could walk like a penguin: Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/24 - 1:52 pm
Mary Ellen took Dolly the dog up to Castle Island for a walk yesterday.
They spotted a plump dunlin, a flock of them and a female common eider (also purple sandpipers, which to the untrained eye look just like dunlins, only more gray than brown): Read more.
By adamg - 1/28/24 - 4:08 pm
WCVB reports on the body found near East India Row around 10:25 a.m. on Saturday.
By adamg - 1/22/24 - 4:47 pm
Nichole Davis gets the scoop: The be-tuxed bird spotted moving around the harbor wasn't a penguin but a thick-billed murre, a black-and-white Arctic bird that is not completely unheard of in these parts in the winter. So it also wasn't a heron.
By adamg - 1/13/24 - 1:11 pm
This morning, Lisa Green walked from the North End to Rowes Wharf, where Boston Harbor was a lot closer than it usually is, like at the Aquarium, where the harbor consumed the harborwalk.
Kevin Whitely forwarded a friend's video of flooding on Commercial Wharf in the North End: Read more.
By adamg - 12/30/23 - 9:59 pm
Eric Bender, who covers the waterfront, watched this morning, as a crane and crew resurrected the Armageddon, which sank at its berth at the Boston Harbor Marina in East Boston at some point.
By adamg - 12/30/23 - 1:43 pm
Eric Bender watched three Boston tugs guide the tanker Nor'easter out of Chelsea Creek this morning. He reports: Read more.
By David Samuel Johnson - 12/30/23 - 10:19 am
Male fiddler crabs are small, with one oversized claw. Photo by David Samuel Johnson.
Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a fiddler crab – a species that wasn't supposed to be north of Cape Cod, let alone north of Boston.
As it turned out, the marsh I was standing in would never be the same. I was witnessing climate change in action. Read more.
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