Boat Trip

This is our third day on the water. Today it is a boat trip around the harbour.

This is how you get to the Aquarium stop. The final stop for this train is “Wonderland. I’d love to go there.

This is the USS Constitution, or “Old Ironsides” as she is known. Apparently in the seventies she went around in a wheelchair solving murders..

Boston harbour looking really nice.

Harvard Natural History Museum

After the whale watching we went off to Harvard to look at their museum.

This is “Harvard Yard”. Like Hull University campus, but not quite as nice looking.

These flowers are made of glass. Amazing.

Whale Watching

If you go to Boston you really should go whale watching. They don’t guarantee that you will see a whale, but they will give you another trip if you don’t. You sail out of Boston for an hour or so and then spend some time searching for tell-tale spouts on the horizon. Then the boat accelerates like mad towards them, until the whales go back down again. This was great fun, and we were really lucky to see several whales while we were out there.

Watching for whales.

A humpback comes up for air.

…and then goes down again.

Aquariums and Patriots

Boston Aquarium today. Very nice, but very hot. this is a dragon fish.

In the afternoon we went on a cruise on a “Liberty Clipper”, which was great.

Under sail

During the cruise we had a “Boston Tea Party Re-enactment” which was great fun. At the end we threw some tea in the river, and then had to get it back. We also fired the ship’s gun, along with a pistol..

Boston Science Museum

Not a lot of narrative for the next few days, but a few choice pictures from our holidays. Today we went to Boston Science Museum.

They have this amazing clock in the lobby

They also have a really impressive lightning display, including sparks to music.

I’m not sure they should call it a Science Museum, in that science is not something that exists in the past, but it sure is a great place to visit.