BOSTON HARBOR ISLANDS TRIP
Hello Everybody!
It looks like everybody had a good time last wednesday when we went to the first field trip. I have to tell I also had a lot of fun especially because the weather was perfect for this kind of adventure through Boston Harbor Islands. I am going to write here the impressions that i had about this trip.
At this point it is difficult to say something that hasn’t been mentioned before, and also because everyone of us where there in the trip and we had the possibility to see all the islands and every detail of the trip, so I just want to concentrate this post to tell something about the Harbor Islands that might be interesting for us and also for the purpose of the class and the field trips.
Just to make clear I think it is important to say that there is a group of 34 isllands in Boston´s Harbor that are used as prisions, habitat places, military bases, some of them have big stru
ctures that clean the water, etc....
When we started this trip in the left side of the boat we could see "Logan International Airport". I think it is really important to mention this, because this airport its important for Bostons economy nowadays, because its a big and important entrance for tourism and goods to Boston. In the right side we could see the industrial part of the Harbor, that´s an specific place where boats come from all over the world to ship goods
It is interesting that when you are in the boat you can see the differente sights that makes a nice contrast, because there is in one side the airport, in the other part you can see the city of Boston with tall buildings and in the other part you can see the industrial part of Boston where all the trades are donne, and its is pricesely the airport and the industrial part of Boston what makes the city of Boston to have all the things we need to live here.
Continuing the trip in the boat we were able to see all the other islands that are part of the Harbos. The most interesting one i saw is "Spectacle Island" because it has a glasses form, and also another island where the engineers put all the sand that they took of Boston when they were building the Big Dig.
The most importante thing, is that these islands have different purposes apart for just being habitat places, they were also used as a prision, as a place to train soldiers douring war. But now what i think is the best pourpose the islands have is that theyre helpfull for building water cleaners that mantain the water of the harbor clean. And i think it is really important, because as Professor Berman said "water is a source of wealth, and everybody likes water". That is really truth and i think one way to take care of this zones is by cleanind the water, which was a really expensive thing, but eventhough i think it is worth it.
When we came back to land, we talked a little bit about the project of the Big Dig, that built with federal resources, and it was made to hide the sub way and instead of having it in the city, they constructed it down the city, and where it used to be the subway there are now green places, as the Columbus Park where we had this talk.
In conclusion, i would like to say that its fun to do fild trips but it is also nice because we can have a bigger idea of why Boston is as beautifull as we know it now, its interesting to know the economy of the region, the big projects that the government has been doing here, and the social impact that this kind of activities have. Hopefully we can do this kind of trips more often.
Thanks!
Eduardo Gómez
It is interesting that when you are in the boat you can see the differente sights that makes a nice contrast, because there is in one side the airport, in the other part you can see the city of Boston with tall buildings and in the other part you can see the industrial part of Boston where all the trades are donne, and its is pricesely the airport and the industrial part of Boston what makes the city of Boston to have all the things we need to live here.
Continuing the trip in the boat we were able to see all the other islands that are part of the Harbos. The most interesting one i saw is "Spectacle Island" because it has a glasses form, and also another island where the engineers put all the sand that they took of Boston when they were building the Big Dig.
The most importante thing, is that these islands have different purposes apart for just being habitat places, they were also used as a prision, as a place to train soldiers douring war. But now what i think is the best pourpose the islands have is that theyre helpfull for building water cleaners that mantain the water of the harbor clean. And i think it is really important, because as Professor Berman said "water is a source of wealth, and everybody likes water". That is really truth and i think one way to take care of this zones is by cleanind the water, which was a really expensive thing, but eventhough i think it is worth it.
When we came back to land, we talked a little bit about the project of the Big Dig, that built with federal resources, and it was made to hide the sub way and instead of having it in the city, they constructed it down the city, and where it used to be the subway there are now green places, as the Columbus Park where we had this talk.
In conclusion, i would like to say that its fun to do fild trips but it is also nice because we can have a bigger idea of why Boston is as beautifull as we know it now, its interesting to know the economy of the region, the big projects that the government has been doing here, and the social impact that this kind of activities have. Hopefully we can do this kind of trips more often.
Thanks!
Eduardo Gómez
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