Yesterday, we took the T downtown to the wharf and hopped on a ferry out to the Boston Harbor Islands! It was cloudy early on, when we toured Fort Warren at Georges Island, but eventually the sun came out and we had quality time with sun in our faces and wind in our hair. Spectacle Island is pretty weird; Used as a landfill at one time, piles of trash were leeching ick stuff into the water until the landfill was "capped" 3 years ago with tons (literally) of dirt from the Big Dig (a convenient use emphatically stated in signage to be condoned by environmentalists and park planners alike). Next, the entire island was bulldozed, smoothed over and landscaped. The island's newly built visitor center is a "green" building that has solar panels, compost toilets and electric service vehicles, which is great, but I couldn't help thinking about all the displaced and/or stressed out island wildlife. We sat in rocking chairs on the porch, and soaked in the sun. Very nice, but the whole place had an air of 'fake' about it that was hard to shake. Regardless, it was lovely to be out on the water and to get away from the crowds (There was a Sox game on...). My favorite part of the day was skipping rocks and hunting for sea glass on the shore of Georges. I'd love to go back in early summer and camp at Bumpkin or Lovell's Island!