When Jodi contacted me about joining her and my brother Christopher to George's Island last Saturday, my first thought was "We have islands?" followed by "Sure! I'll come!"
It turns out we have a few very nice islands; George's, Spectacle, and The Other One I Can't Remember The Name Of. We all packed snacks to share and made our way down to the Boston Harbor Saturday morning and took a 40 minute ferry ride to George's Island. We were going for a music festival hosted by Berklee, which turned out to be one small tent with a musician under it but we didn't mind at all.
The island was small enough to explore but big enough that it didn't feel at all crowded. It also had a rather impressive visitors center/museum with lots of info. None of which I read aside from some mumbo-jumbo about two dudes way back in olden times who would join the army to collect a stipend, disappear and join another battalion elsewhere, get a stipend, disappear...
You get the idea.
They were brought to justice and shot to death on the island.
We were surprised at how not rustic the place was with it's clean bathrooms, food (if we hadn't already brought some). There was even a beer tent. There was lots of space to explore, open fields, rocky beachy areas, picnic benches, little grills, and trees for shade if you preferred.
The weather was beautiful and sunny and we found some perfect shade to sit under, listen to music, people watch and chat and sort of nap.
After a few hours of eating and lounging and one walkabout, we joined a very long line to take the next ferry off the island. We struck up a conversation your a nice couple standing behind us and that helped to pass the time, which we ended up having a lot of on account of one of the ferries not showing up for some reason or another.
In the end, a whale watching boat was sent as a stand in. It would get us home in fifteen minutes which I was most certainly in favor of over a 45 minute ferry ride. I offered Christopher a dollar if he'd ask the rangers "Are we gonna see whales on the way home?! You know, because it's a whale watching ferry?!" as we boarded the ferry but he didn't take the bait.
Loser.
It was a great day and a perfect addition to my summer bucket list!
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| The ride to the island was actually REALLY hot, so it was a relief to find the weather on the island really comfortable |
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| snacks! |
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| Apparently the island hosts a kite-flying festival. This is not that though. |
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| sibling selfie |
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In fact, Boston Harbor is notable for its number of islands: Thompson, Long, Spectacle, Rainsford, Georges, Gallops, Peddocks, Lovells, Brewster (Great, Little, Middle, and Outer Brewster), Calf, Shag Rocks, Bumpkin, Sheep, Grape, Slate, Racoon, Spinnaker, and Green Islands. They make the approach from the sea dangerous, which is why the first island sailors encounter is call The Graves.
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