Dorchester Bay

Taking the plunge in Dorchester Bay

By adamg - 1/1/13 - 1:21 pm

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Dorchester gets briny

By adamg - 10/29/12 - 2:55 pm

Dev traveled along the water in Dorchester this afternoon, making stops at the Harborwalk by the JFK library (above), Malibu Beach and Morrissey Boulevard (below), which seemed unusually flooded even for its normally flood-prone self:

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Another hot one

By adamg - 6/22/12 - 9:37 am

Heidi watched the sun come up over Dorchester Bay this morning.

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Quincy smelt

By adamg - 3/30/12 - 10:04 am

The Neponset River Watershed Association tweets that smelt were spotted yesterday in Quincy's Gulliver Creek, heading up the Neponset on their annual spawning run. Like the alewife, the smelt are anadromous, which means they live in the ocean but return to fresh water to spawn.

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The moving figure swims, and having swum, moves on

By adamg - 2/23/12 - 5:46 pm

Search boats off South Boston. Photo by Jake Wark.

Boston and State Police swarmed the South Boston beaches this afternoon - both on shore and in the water - looking for a man reported to be possibly struggling as he swam about 400 yards offshore.

The search was called off when nobody was found. Even in February, members of the L Street Bathhouse (you know, the people who run into the bay every New Year's Day) will don wet suits and go for swims. It is not known, however, if the spotted man was from L Street.

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Some years, the L Street Brownies have it a bit warmer than others

By adamg - 1/1/12 - 3:21 pm

Mystery Pill took in today's annual Dorchester Bay dip by the L Street Brownies - just like Leslie Jones did in 1930:

Top photo copyright Mystery Pill and posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr. Bottom photo from the Boston Public Library's Leslie Jones collection and posted under this Creative Commons license.