Adam Castiglioni watched the USS Constitution leave the dock at the Charlestown Navy Yard for its annual turn-around cruise out to Castle Island.
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By adamg - 7/2/23 - 1:08 pm
Matt Conti got a bird's-eye view of last night's Boston Harborfest fireworks over the harbor.
After watching the fireworks towed into place, Matt Frank watched the fireworks from the other side of the Tobin Bridge: Read more.
By adamg - 6/18/23 - 10:14 pm
Swimmers get ready to take on the harbor. Photo by Patrick Quinn-Paquet.
Nearly 100 swimmers, accompanied by some 60 kayakers, did a 5K tour of Boston Harbor today to benefit the Navy SEALs Foundation which helps current, reserve and veteran SEALs, their families and support staff. Read more.
By adamg - 6/3/23 - 4:22 pm
Brooks Payne took in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in the Seaport today. He adds that when he got there, the winds were gusting to 28 m.p.h. Read more.
By adamg - 6/3/23 - 12:45 pm
Glub: A man who never moved from the Custom House would need air tanks in a storm by 2070, report says.
By adamg - 5/23/23 - 10:42 pm
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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