Field trip through Harbor Islands!!!

Hi everyone!!!

I hope you all enjoyed your weekends as much as I did!

About the field trip we went on last wednesday, the first thing I have to say is YEY! I didn't

get sea sick! jajaja Earlier this month I went on a boat ride to see whales and I got sea sick for the first time in my life, so I was really worried that this would happen again... But it didn't, so YEY!

Anyways, now really talking about the field trip. I was thinking about the maps I saw in American Management class, and where we actually were on the boat, and I drew a little rout of what I think our boat did. Basically we left out of Quincy Bay through the middle of the 34 islands. We saw spectacle island to our left, that's for sure, but what I can't remember is if we say Long Island and Moon Island to our left or to our right. Looking at the map, it made more sense to think that this was our rout. Since the end of the tour was in the water treatment plant (which I looked up was in Deer Island) I guessed that was the rout we took. So there you go, nice trip through the islands!

I've never been any good at writing blog entries because I never know what to say, so I'm just going to say what I found most interesting about this trip. First of all, the fact that the harbor didn't smell bad at all, was amazing. In all the harbors I've been in, there is this wierd, unpleasant, peculiar smell, and it's great that this harbor desn't smell like anything. I noticed this fact the first time I went to this harbor, but I simply found it wierd, I didn't know all the story behind it. Boston's harbor went from being probably one of the most disgusting harbors on Earth, to one of the cleanest, for sure. They used to dump 280 million

gallons of waste per day, that really had to stink! They built public houses near the water because it was the most awful place in town, and now there's probably people who would kill to live in such a place! I mean, look at it! Huge houses, their own beach... it's great! (oh, btw, this is a comment mostly directed to Mar, I'm using the pictures you posted on fb, because I forgot mi camera... so if you think they really look alike... it's cause they're yours! jajaja GRACIAS!!!)

Another thing that I found very interesting was the fact that before, these islands were part of a huge glacier that was one mile high. I can't really picture what this must have looked like, but it had to be increadible. Also, the Big Dig project was quite impressive, how they rerouted the highway completely and made a tunnel. It would have been great to see the before and

after of this project. Besides this, it was shoking to see how much the level of the water has changed during the years. This didn't only happen because of the tides, it was also because they constructed inside the ocean, but it's nice to see how they've left a little line across the city to show were the water went up to.

I've learned many things in this trip, geography and history, and I really enjoyed it a lot. If someone asks me now to name several Harbor Islands, I would know them for sure, because seeing them has actually helped me know the names, due to the fact that several of them are named after their appearance. I hope that the next field trip we go on, is as great as this one!

See you all in class!!!

Paloma