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By adamg - 5/23/23 - 10:42 pm
Lazy, hazy jet takeoff from Logan

Matt Frank watched a jet depart Logan through nature's homage to the Golden Girls opening credits by way of haze from the continuing wildfires in western Canada.

By adamg - 5/21/23 - 10:12 am

The Boston Public Health Commission reports that some raw sewage got into the inner harbor early this morning through combined sewer outflow pipes in East Boston and the South End: Read more.

By adamg - 5/8/23 - 11:16 am
Man in Boston Harbor retrieving skateboard

Horseless Age chronicled one man's successful effort to retrieve his be-stickered skateboard out of the briny shallow off Christopher Columbus Park the other day - after getting down to his skivvies and slipping a time or two on the seaweed.

By adamg - 5/5/23 - 2:36 pm
Phalarope

Mary Ellen says the local birding community is all atwitter about a fallout of red phalaropes off Cape Cod, far from their normal nesting areas in the Arctic - to which they migrate from southern oceans - so she reports she was pleasantly surprised when she spotted one in the water off Deer Island on a walk this morning.

By adamg - 5/4/23 - 10:52 am
ARM Cuauhtémoc at Fan Pier

Neil couldn't help but notice the Mexican ARM Cuauhtémoc docked at Fan Pier this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 4/19/23 - 11:19 am
Sprit of Boston docked in Charlestown with windows boarded up

Nicholas Agri spotted a boarded-up Spirit of Boston docked in Charlestown. The ship, normally docked by the World Trade Center across Boston Harbor, caught fire last month.

By adamg - 3/13/23 - 7:36 pm
Amis Treasure in Chelsesa Creek

This afternoon, Michael Campbell was in East Boston, watching the Amis Treasure come through Boston Harbor on its way to the Chelsea salt pile on Chelsea Creek with a fresh load of Chilean salt, picked up from the Punta Patache Terminal in Chile.

By adamg - 3/13/23 - 9:33 am
Boston skyline at dawn

Karen captured the dawn over the Back Bay this morning.

In West Roxbury, Mary Ellen watched the sun rise over the West Roxbury Crushed Stone quarry: Read more.

By adamg - 2/25/23 - 11:01 am
Sunrise over Boston Harbor

Christine Sullivan got a good view of this morning's sunrise over Boston Harbor.

Down in West Roxbury, Mary Ellen briefly braved the cold at dawn at Millennium Park: Read more.

By adamg - 2/21/23 - 2:46 pm
Proposed Fort Point Channel barrier and pedestrian bridge

Possibility for a Fort Point Channel barrier. See it larger.

A consultant hired by the Boston Water and Sewer Commission is recommending a new barrier system where Boston Harbor meets Fort Point Channel, to keep rising sea levels and more intense storms from letting the ocean reclaim what was once South Bay - a large swath of Dorchester, South Boston and Roxbury. Read more.

By adamg - 2/20/23 - 12:06 pm
Man in kayak on Long Wharf in 2021

King tides always a good time to kayak on Long Wharf. Photo by Adam Castiglioni.

The BPDA board last week agreed to spend $880,000 for a consultant to study ways to make Long Wharf, which now floods during particularly high tides, more resilient in higher tides - from water slopping over the end of the wharf and belching up through a storm drain further down, near the Chart House. Read more.

By adamg - 2/10/23 - 1:50 pm
Big ship at the end of State Street

Adam Castiglioni was walking down State Street this morning when he looked up and saw a gigantic ship in Boston Harbor. It was the Iberica Knutsen, a Norwegian LNG tanker that had probably pumped out a huge load of LNG along Chelsea Creek and was now heading back across the Atlantic, or perhaps to Trinidad and Tobago, to pick up some more.

By adamg - 2/7/23 - 10:07 pm

A woman somehow wound up in Boston Harbor off Steriti Rink around 9:50 p.m. Boston Police officers, the first on scene, quickly spotted her holding onto a piling. Two divers from the Boston Fire Department jumped in the water and got her onto a State Police boat, which took her to the State Police dock near the Charles River Dam for transportation to a nearby hospital.

By adamg - 1/29/23 - 9:56 am
Orange sunrise

Christine Sullivan had a good view of the sunrise over Boston Harbor this morning.

By adamg - 1/23/23 - 5:07 pm

A non-profit group that wants to put affordable housing on 7 1/2 acres of East Boston waterfront it owns is suing the state agency that says the land can only be used for marine industries - or yacht storage - even though the land has no docks or access to the harbor's main shipping channel. Read more.

By adamg - 12/23/22 - 11:57 am
Wave hitting Winthrop Parkway in Revere

Wave hitting Winthrop Parkway in Revere. Photo by Brian Riccio.

Morrissey Boulevard? Long Wharf? Winthrop Drive? All shut at the morning high tide as wind-whipped waves came ashore. But also Day Boulevard in South Boston. Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/22 - 5:05 pm
Santa on a State Police boat on the way to Chelsea

Matt Frank tracked Santa making his way across the harbor on a State Police patrol boat to Chelsea.

By adamg - 12/16/22 - 12:55 pm

WFXT reports on the body found this morning.

No, there is no Smiley Face Killer.

By adamg - 12/5/22 - 2:45 pm

Eric Bender reports on a City Council hearing last week about what happens as seas continue to rise and storms grow more intense.

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