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The music, it’s Cry, cry from Mazzy Star. We haven’t tried but we could have brought food to grill, there’s stuff to do it! It was a sunny and lazy walk, with a great view of Downtown Boston. The ferry ticket costs only 15$ to visit both islands, Georges and Spectacle. There are social service centers, abandoned hotels, and some other creepy stuff for an isolated island. So we just waved at the island, without stopping by. This huge steel bridge bounds Boston to this restricted access island. There are currently works to make the island more visitor friendly. It’s the island used partially as a decor for the Scorsese movie, Shutter Island (we asked: there’s no psychiatric hospital on it). On the ferry, we crossed Peddocks Island, where there’s also a fort. Spectacle Island is very charming, anyway I didn’t feel the usual loneliness I felt on others islands: we see the city, big plants, docks, the airport is very close, there’s a huge airplanes and boats traffic. Now it’s healthy, as the sign said it, even if I didn’t want to swim in the water, pretty dirty. Then there was a rendering plant, an incinerator and eventually it’s was just a trash place. The history of Spectacle Island is pretty chaotic: first, 2 hotels, which closed because of illicit activities. We were cute Sunday walkers with only sandals and espadrilles. It was at least 85☏ without any shade shelter, and without any hat.

We had a really nice walk on Spectacle, along a trail leading us on the hill top, with a great view on the harbor and Boston. Second step of the day, Spectacle Island, which name derives from its glasses shape. Prisoners tried to escape swimming… but they failed.

Walk around the island only took us 30 minutes, with breaks at each bench we crossed.īoston view from Georges Island, 11 km away offshore. The fort was used as a jail during the Civil War, and since then, there’s a ghost wandering in the ruins, the Lady in Black. Its main and only attraction is Fort Warren, not in good shape, you can visit it though. We started the visit with Georges Island. We couldn’t go very close to it, I just zoomed a lot. Little Brewster Island and the Boston Light, one of the oldest in the USA. After a good brunch, we were ready for a boat trip. Visiting these islands in Boston Bay is possible from the end of June to Labor Day – first Monday of September, that let us only 2 months to get motivated to go there. Among our places-to-see list in Boston, there was “going to the Boston Harbor Islands”.