Just got back from visiting Boston. Technically, Chelmsford.
We flew over New York which was pretty cool. Got a bird's eye view of the city.
Our first night we went to a comedy club to watch Jessica Kirson. I had never heard of her. Absolutely hilarious. She had everyone rolling. If you get a chance to see her, do it.
Our second day (more on our first day later) we went to an orchard. Apples, grapes, raspberries and blueberries all for the pickin'. We got 2 bags of macintosh and one bag of my favorite honey crisp. We munched on apples every day and brought a suitcase full of them home. The TSA dude gave us a weird look. We also got a couple boxes of raspberries which my wife made a pie with. YUM!
The orchard was beautiful.
I guess I'm mostly drawn to any sort of animal life I normally don't see.
Pretty blue bird.
Kinda hard to see but they have red squirrels up there. Much smaller than the squirrels we have here. They look like baby squirrels to me.
We had quite the debate about wasps. The guy we stayed with insisted these were yellow jackets. Then he had some other wasps coming out of the ground in his garden that he insisted were yellow jackets. Neither looked anything like the yellow jackets I'm used to. Anyway, here's a honker of a wasp nest in his back yard. He's opposed to using poison so there it is.
Never see chipmunks where I live either.
I have to mention this. It is the laziest dog I've ever seen. The only time he moved from this position was when his owner made him.
Random cool covered bridge.
By far the highlight of our trip was a whale watching excursion. My wife's daughter set this up. She had originally picked a different place but she got wind that we watch Wicked Tuna so she booked a trip out of Gloucester.
First some random pics.
This is a schooner that you can book a trip on. I'm not sure if you actually help with the sails or not. Seemed kinda cool.
This is the building where they weigh the tunas on wicked tuna.
I have to mention the tuna boats. They are catching these monster tuna only about 6 or 7 miles offshore. Not fair. I have to go 30 to catch nothing like that.
Anyways, back to the main event.
My expectation for this was somewhat low. I've heard that you can go on these whale watching tours and never see a whale. Right away we spotted a couple so it was already successful.
I figured this was what it would be like. They were about 50 or so yards away.
Then it got crazy. A mother and her calf came right to the boat. Like, touching the boat. They stayed there about 15 minutes. It was insane. One of the coolest things I've ever seen.
The girls leading the tour were actually marine biologists who tracked and catalogued these whales. Out there almost every day. She said that this almost never happens.
Pretty cool trip all in all.