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Category Archives: Boston Harbor Navigation
Spectacle Island: The heart of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park
Just a short ferry ride away from downtown Boston, this accessible and tourist friendly island offers spectacular views of the City of Boston and virtually all of the Boston Harbor Islands from its high drumlins. Spectacle is an island named … Continue reading →
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Fort Sewall: The Colonial-era outpost at Gale’s Head
Built in 1742, Fort Sewall in Marblehead, MA is one of the oldest fortifications on the east coast. The fort was originally built in English Colonial times for defense against the French, but the current structure has remained active in … Continue reading →
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Boston Harbor in the fog
Last week was a particularly foggy one around Boston Harbor, as one can see from the following photos: Boston Light, as seen up close on a very foggy and overcast morning: At the end of the remains of a wharf … Continue reading →
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Old Minot Light
The first Minot Light: No photographs of the original structure exist that I am aware of, but there are some depictions, and it looked something like this: Realizing the danger that the great number of rocks surround Cohasset Harbor and … Continue reading →
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Two views of the Long Island Bridge
Two views of the Long Island Bridge…. Driving over: And passing under: The top photo was taken on the way out to Long Island, which I had the privilege of doing thanks to the Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands. The … Continue reading →
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Fort Banks: Winthrop’s abandoned relic of the Spanish-American War era
The little know abandoned ruins of Fort Banks lies in the Northern section of the town of Winthrop. This fort was built as one of earlier coastal defense outposts around Boston Harbor. Designed in response to the new threat of … Continue reading →
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Picture of the Week: Graves Light and Boston Light
The two lighthouses sitting at the mouth of the Boston Harbor on a nice spring day. They look quite close together in this photo, but are actually almost three miles apart:
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Historic Newburyport and The Mouth of the Merrimack
There are few places along the coast of New England where a river with the size and force of the Merrimack flows into the ocean. This great discharge, said to be over 7,000 cubic feet per second, often creates huge … Continue reading →
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Highland Light: Truro’s Outer Beacon
Highland Light sits on the highest dunes of North Truro on outer Cape Cod. It is appropriately named, as these dunes reach heights of over one hundred feet in some places. The lighthouse was built in 1797 in response to … Continue reading →
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Mystic River Bridge
A view of the Mystic River Bridge from East Boston on a cool rainy spring day:
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