We flew to Boston on our USA trip, The main purpose to visit my brother Asger and his wife Lizzie and se their new house out in the woods in the northwest corner of Connecticut, but Lisbeth and I had planned the trip, so we start with 4 days sightseeing in Boston, and end with 4 days sightseeing in New York City.
Our excellent hotel room on 8th floor in the Harborside Inn Hotel (http://harborsideinnboston.com/) on State Street just next to the harbour
View from our hotel room towards Christopher Columbus Park
View from our hotel room up State Street
Another view up State Street with Old State House
The harbour
View from the harbour toward the building which includes the Harborside Inn Hotel, originally built in 1846 as a mercantile shipping warehouse on the Boston harbour.
We decided to use our first day go on a whale watching trip
In the bay outside Boston there is an archipelago with lots of small islands.
We focused on one male humpback whale named after the Brazilian football player Pele (humpback whale can be identified from the markings on their the tail flukes). Our guide complained that it was too lazy and did not make a show for us when it was breeding, but probably it was too busy to feed on a shoal of fish below us to have time.
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale, adults range in length from 12–16 metres and weigh approximately 36,000 kilograms. The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with unusually long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. An acrobatic animal known for breaching and slapping the water with its tail and pectorals, it is popular with whale watchers.
Like other large whales, the humpback was and is a target for the whaling industry. Once hunted to the brink of extinction, its population fell by an estimated 90% before a moratorium was introduced in 1966.
While stocks have since partially recovered, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with ships, and noise pollution continue to impact the 80,000 humpbacks worldwide.
When we left another group of whale watchers took over observing Pele.
The famous park Boston Common is very popular among its citizens
It is also among very popular among squirrels, who are feed by the visitors
Boston Common (also known as "the Common") is the central public park in Boston. Dating from 1634, it is the oldest city park in the United States
the Make Way for Ducklings sculpture. The Mrs. Mallard and her 8 ducklings sculpture is based on the drawings of Robert McCloskey who wrote the 1941 children's classic Make Way for Ducklings, set in the Public Garden.
Our excellent hotel room on 8th floor in the Harborside Inn Hotel (http://harborsideinnboston.com/) on State Street just next to the harbour
View from our hotel room towards Christopher Columbus Park
View from our hotel room up State Street
Another view up State Street with Old State House
The harbour
View from the harbour toward the building which includes the Harborside Inn Hotel, originally built in 1846 as a mercantile shipping warehouse on the Boston harbour.
We decided to use our first day go on a whale watching trip
In the bay outside Boston there is an archipelago with lots of small islands.
We focused on one male humpback whale named after the Brazilian football player Pele (humpback whale can be identified from the markings on their the tail flukes). Our guide complained that it was too lazy and did not make a show for us when it was breeding, but probably it was too busy to feed on a shoal of fish below us to have time.
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale, adults range in length from 12–16 metres and weigh approximately 36,000 kilograms. The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with unusually long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. An acrobatic animal known for breaching and slapping the water with its tail and pectorals, it is popular with whale watchers.
Like other large whales, the humpback was and is a target for the whaling industry. Once hunted to the brink of extinction, its population fell by an estimated 90% before a moratorium was introduced in 1966.
While stocks have since partially recovered, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with ships, and noise pollution continue to impact the 80,000 humpbacks worldwide.
When we left another group of whale watchers took over observing Pele.
The famous park Boston Common is very popular among its citizens
It is also among very popular among squirrels, who are feed by the visitors
Boston Common (also known as "the Common") is the central public park in Boston. Dating from 1634, it is the oldest city park in the United States
the Make Way for Ducklings sculpture. The Mrs. Mallard and her 8 ducklings sculpture is based on the drawings of Robert McCloskey who wrote the 1941 children's classic Make Way for Ducklings, set in the Public Garden.
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