Ice Cream Cones and Trash Can Living

It's always ice cream weather!

  Thursday was yet another rainy day. The rain came down but the fun did not stop. After lunch I decided that an ice cream cone was in order. After I had purchased a nice cold soft serve twist my new friend Rose came over to test out her fishing skills. Rose was on a trip from Hawaii and had never been fishing before! She told me all about her friends at home and her pets! At some point in the conversation she asked me where my house was and impulsively I decided to tell her I lived in the trash can we were standing next to. She poked some holes in my story, claiming that there was no way my dog, my mom and I could fit into that one trash can. She was pretty clever. In between our garbage can debates she asked me about turtles and what she could catch in the harbor. Even her Dad was interested!

Saving a crab from under my home!

   Everyday is a bit different and we get to interact with different people all the time but every Thursday my two favorite kids come to visit. Oscar and Isaac are two Australian kids who recently moved to Boston and love fishing! Isaac is an expert crab wrangler and knows as much about crabs as I do! He likes to teach other kids about identifying green crabs and their gender. He has no hesitations when it comes to holding even the biggest of green crabs. He encourages his younger brother Oscar to hold them too, even when he's a bit scared! Oscar and I played with the kickball for a while too! Rolling it back and forth and Jennifer even got in on the game with us! Both kids are a joy to see every week!

Pritae Stories and Crab Claws

Hello Boston!

Tony the Pirate Sharing Scary Stories

This Friday I had the opportunity to work at Atlantic Wharf.Our team at Save the Harbor/Save the Bay had a lot of fun activities set up for the kids who joined us that day including storytelling with Tony the Pirate, fishing off the wharf, and crab traps and touch tanks by the water. I was in charge of playing What You Can't See Under the Sea with the children. To play this game, we sat down and discussed animals that live in the ocean, how they act, and what they eat. Each participant chose their favorite animal and got into character as we ran around the grass reenacting an underwater scene. I got "stung" by a squiggly jellyfish, chomped on by a fast shark, and nabbed by a speedy narwhal.  The kids had a great time being sea creatures; they did not want to stop playing!

All the Children at Atlantic Wharf

Save the Harbor Set Up at Children's Museum

Once the group left Atlantic Wharf, I headed over to the Boston Children's Museum to interact with the museum goers and other onlookers. We set up fishing rods and a touch tank filled with freshly trapped crabs. Both kids and adults were thrilled by the option to stop what they were doing and hold a crab or cast a fishing rod. People would bustle by, busy with life and caught up in their own worlds, and I'd lure them over with an interesting crab fact. Many people had never held a crab before!



While working the touch tank with Garret, he taught me that the triangular part of the underside of a crab is known as an "apron." I love learning new facts about these awesome sea creatures, thank you Garret! I had a great time playing with the kids at the Boston Children's Museum and I hope I will get to go back soon.

Sea you out there,

Jennifer Leiendecker

Fish in the Trap

Striped bass!

  Monday was an exciting day at Children's Museum. We caught two cunners in the crab trap! In all the excitement of finally catching as fish, even if it wasn't on the line, I almost missed when one of the kids caught a striped bass. I heard somebody yell "Dude, you got a striper!" and I turned around sure enough an eight year old kid was reeling in a striped bass. When we measured it the fish was around a foot in length. We went from not catching anything for a week to catching three fish in one day! We even had one huge fish on the rod but it snapped the line before we could finish reeling it in. Fish and crabs were not the only things we caught on Monday, we also caught a few moon jellies.

We caught a spider crab too!
   Monday was not the only day we managed to pull up a few fish. Wednesday was hot and sunny and the fish seemed to love it! We pulled up five cunner in the crab traps! We caught some smaller ones that measured about two inches in length  and we caught one larger one that was seven inches long. We also caught a bunch of crabs. Our friends Sean and Max came back to hang out with us and helped us fish and find crabs! Max named ALL of the crabs and his favorite one was named big legs. Sean and I played some "basketball" and I lost by quite a few points. We had lots of crab races and they even taught all the other kids about the crabs we had caught. I believe they both have futures in employment at Save the Harbor!

Happy Fishing!
  Sam

At Least we Caught Something

     Our first day at Boston Children's Museum was a big hit! We started our day by teaching a young man named Braiden about how our crab trap worked. He was a bit nervous around the trap when I told him what we catch in there but as soon as we pulled up the first round of crabs and he loved it! Almost all the kids touched the crabs' backs and learned how to tell if the crabs were male or female. For a while I had the chance to talk to another young man named Johnathan who told me all about his favorite video games and television shows. He was excited to go into the museum but he was having so much fun fishing he didn't want to leave!

Our catch of the day!

   
At one point we decided to get all the kids interacting with the crabs and decided to have a crab race. We drew a big circle and put the crabs in the middle of the circle and tried to see who could run out first! Some crabs got stage fright and stayed still and others were running for freedom like crazy!

    Later in the day, we had a visit from some adults too. These four women came up to me asking about the program and what we were doing. One of them even asked to pull up the crab trap - there is no age limit to new experiences!

   Our second day at the Children's Museum was one filled with fun and some technical difficulties. After a miscommunication about who was supposed to hold the rope to the bucket, our water bucket ended up floating in the channel. After trying (and failing) to fish for the rope attached to the end of the bucket we decided the net would be a better strategy. After tying a rope to the fishing net we had on hand we lowered the net into the water to scoop the lost bucket out. Several spectators enjoyed watching us trying to get ourselves out of the debacle we had found ourselves in. Luckily, we retrieved the bucket and continued on with our super fun day!

Happy Crabbing (& bucketing?)
    Sam B.

Save The Bay Or Save The Day?

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Hey how’s it going everyone, my name is Edward Calderon Casimi but you can call me Eddie. I decided to come back to Save the Harbor/Save the Bay because I wanted to further my Boston Children Museum experiences. During the years that I was currently active working with Save the Harbor/Save the bay I’ve had the most fun, and the most memorable moments that I could ever ask for. In each site that is assigned to a group of JPA’s you are guarantee to learn something new without a doubt. I enjoy giving important facts about animals and any sea animals that we catch out on the bay. Most importantly the good feeling of happy kids enjoying their summer. The group and I were currently placed at the Boston Children Museum down by the blue dock.

On our first day at the Boston Children Museum we didn’t catch any fish of any type. The group and I were only able to catch male and female Asian green crabs throughout the day. The type of bait that our team was using to try and catch something off the Harbor was fish meat. Even though the fish meat wasn’t bringing us anything but crabs it was certainly bringing us more kids. The kids where definitely interested in touching the green crabs and learning fun facts about them. The kid’s favorite activity aside from fishing was having the green crabs race each other. The first green crab to crawl out the “circle of race” would be crowned the winner. Some of the kids would often give the crabs a name that would be unique to the crab itself.

Kids that haven’t had a chance to fish before find this program at the Children Museum very fun to know about and be part of. It’s interesting meeting new people who come from different countries and have their own way in fishing. People often don’t realize the advantages that they provide here at the Save the Harbor/Save the Bay. Some of the people visiting would fish out in the cold while others prefer to fish during the summer. When I asked about the results most of them said they would catch more fish during the cold then the summer due to fewer movements in the ocean. On my second day back to the Boston Children Museum nobody wanted to draw but start fishing. Kids sometimes wondered why we would catch and release and not why we wouldn’t catch and keep.

I would later explain why we sometimes wouldn’t be able to keep the fish due to size or population notice. But when the program actually uses the fish it isn’t going to waste, it’s either used as bait or used to make fancy fish prints. After a good day of fishing and communicating with the kids at the Boston Children museum I headed to my aunt’s house. While I was at my aunt’s house cleaning up the parakeet cage I notice that the house cat was playing with the curtains. That’s when I noticed that one of the baby parakeets were out on top of the curtains just teasing the house cat. As I was trying to save it from the cat I was standing on a wooden chair. A few seconds later as I was still standing on the chair, one of the legs of the chair broke. The moment the chair broke I immediately fell and felt a pop or a pull when I landed on my left foot. I wasn’t able to move it so I had to drag myself to the living room couch and wait for the ambulance. This affects my summer job by not letting me interact with the kids who visit the program and limits me from precipitating in further actives where I will be needed. 

Sincerely Edward Calderon

Fishing Tournaments, Melting Sarahs, and the Home Stretch

Thursday I attended the Fan Pier Fishing Tournament, very excited to catch some fish. After such a slow summer at the Museum, it would be really exciting to catch a fish. I was trying to guess what type of fish it would be. Striped bass? Blue fish?

Instead, I didn't catch anything.

But if not catching anything was the price of getting to see the enormous fish my coworkers caught, it was worth it. Because those fish were huge. Bigger than anything we've caught at the Children's Museum--even the eel! Later that day I went to the Curley Community Center and helped work an event they had there that included a free concert by local musicians. There were some amazing and innovative performances, and I'm really glad I got to see some of them. While we were being serenaded we helped kids do fish prints, and even fish printed some tee shirts.

Thursday and Friday were hot. Really hot. And it was humid hot, to make things more difficult. It felt like walking through soup, and being in the heat for so long was very tiring. There were some times when I felt like I was melting, and by the end of the day all that would be left of me would be a little Sarah sized puddle on the ground. Don't worry, all of us at the Children's Museum stayed hydrated. Friday was particularly rough, but what surprised me was that people were willing to stand outside in the 90-degree weather to fish. It really impressed me what they were willing to endure to have the chance to go fishing.

This week coming up is my last week at Save the Harbor Save the Bay for this summer. The week after this I will be leaving for college, and it still hasn't registered completely with me that next Monday I won't be going into Boston to work. It's a little strange, and I know that this fact will be constantly on my mind for the next week, so I'm going to take the chance to reflect on it and write a full blog post about my summer-end reflection. Until then, enjoy some pictures.

We didn't have any flounder for the Curley Beach Jam, so here's our substitute

You can make any color fish so long as it's brown (we did have some other colors, but not many)

Our fish by the end of the event

Kharliyah the artist returns to the Children's Museum

Feeling Hot Hot Hot!

Sarah M

When Crabbing Becomes Fishing

Hi everyone!

At the Boston Children's Museum, we had been experiencing a bit of a fishing drought. On Monday morning, at the beginning of the week, it had been a week and a half since we had caught a fish. The expectation that the next cast would be the lucky one was as high as ever. Eager kids kept stopping by, hoping that they would be the lucky one. We set the crab trap around 10 AM in order to fill up our crab touch tank for visitors. About 30 minutes later, I walked over to see if we had caught anything. While there was one or two crabs, there was also a fish! While our intentions with the trap were not to catch fish, we were thrilled to have caught the first one in a week and a half! After a scan through our Atlantic Coast guide book, we still could not figure out what the little guy was. Many passerby's offered their opinion, but we could not seem to come to an answer. After a a quick message to our boss, he informed us that it was probably a croggie.

   

We kept our little friend in our touch tank throughout the morning (although there was no actual touching, the fish had a spiky spine!). Kids were thrilled to see not only our crabs, but also our fish, and most couldn't believe that we had caught him right here in the Fort Point Channel.

Until next time!
Jessie G.

Our Favorite Returners

Hi everyone!

Jessie here reporting after another great week at the Boston Children's Museum.

At the museum, we interact with almost 2,000 people a week. While many people we meet are from the Boston area, most are tourists coming from all across the country and all over the world. It is very exciting to interact with all of these different people, even if most of our interactions are less than 5 minutes each. Because of this, most of the people we see only once, and never again (unless we see them on their way out of the museum too, of course).

However, we do have a few returning families who visit us often. They just can't get enough fishing! Many of the parents make a point to tell us that their kids just wouldn't get this kind of chance anywhere else, and they are so appreciative of our presence on the Fort Point Channel. The possibility of catching a fish with us keeps these kids coming back week after week, after much time spent begging their parents I am sure.

Max

Sean

These are two of my favorite returners, twins Max and Sean. They frequently visit us around their trips to the museum, and usually spend time fishing multiple times throughout the day around museum play and lunch time.

Fishing with a view!

Max and Sean are only 6 years old, but they are becoming quite the little fishermen. While they haven't been lucky enough to make a catch yet, Sean recently pulled in a crab on his fishing line, and that seems to have provided enough excitement to last him until he or his brother do catch a fish.

Until next time! You can find me fishing on the pier with Max, Sean, and others from all over the world!
Jessie

A Crash Course in Boston History

Boston Children's Museum is right across from the Boston Tea Party Museum. I've never been to the Boston Tea Party Museum, but I know the routine pretty well at this point. Sometimes during the slower hours when no one is at the fishing lines, I and a few other people there will yell "Huzzah!" and "Aye!"at the same time the group at the Tea Party Museum does. It's fun and I really should visit the Tea Party Museum sometime. The people who work there are energetic, and I love history.
A good portion of people who visit the museum, are tourists, and I often ask them about their experience so far, and places they're planning to visit. Sometimes they ask me about the history of Boston, so I do my best to teach them about Boston. And others ask about where are some of the best places in Boston to visit. As always, I try to help as much as possible. In addition to getting experience in teaching children and how to stay positive, I've had some very enjoyable conversations with the adults about their experience in Boston so far, and I've answered a few history questions, like if the Boston Tea Party Museum is where the Tea Party actually happened in 1773 (I don't know, Boston has changed a lot), and I gave a crash course in history to a young boy who wondered why people would dump the tea into the harbor because it was such a waste. (If they were dumping coffee I'd completely agree it was a waste, but it was tea. I'll live. Just don't touch my coffee.)
Save the Harbor Save the Bay has given me a crash course in both basic marine biology and Boston history, as well as giving me some practice thinking on my feet. I didn't intend to brush up on my Boston history while working at Save the Harbor Save the Bay, but as always, this job is full of surprises.

The Boston Tea Party Museum (the BCM is right next to the Hood Bottle)

A Map of Boston Harbor Today

A Map of Boston Harbor Then (huge difference)

Sarah M.

Half Way There

Hello again fellow adventurers!

It's crazy to think about, but the summer is just about half way over! With all the fun and excitement over the past few weeks, I can't believe how fast the summer is flying by. This week I spent time at both the Children's Museum and AABH on Spectacle Island.

That's my corner!

This week at the Children's Museum we had some particularly feisty crabs. With the temperatures on the rise in the city, emotions tend to flare for some city-goers, so I guess the same can be said for the crabs in the Fort Point Channel. The crabs main defence is of course it's claws, which they usually display prominently when we take them out of the trap. They usually calm down when in the touch tank, but this week they've been quick to react to our hands entering the tank, and a few unlucky staff members have felt the powerful pinch from some of these crabs. They'll even fight for position in the corners of the tank, and the extremely feisty ones we've had to put back in the water.

Today I was able to spend the day out on All Access Boston Harbor as our team traveled to Spectacle Island. With blue skies, a boat full of eager kids, and temperatures in the 90's, the scene was set for an amazing beach day! Before we jumped in the water, Myself and Abel played sports with a few groups of kids, from soccer, to frisbee, and kickball. After working up a sweat, we all hustled down the hill to the refreshing waters near the beach. Wasting no time at all thinking about how cold the water might be, I ran in as quick as possible, feeling a wave of cool refreshment wash over me as I plunged into Boston harbor. Not too many things feel as good as that on a hot summer day. However it couldn't last forever, as the day was coming to an end and we had to get back on the boat to Boston. I can't wait until the next time I get to take another trip out to the islands and jump back in.

Campers enjoying the beach!

Until next time, keep on exploring!
-Luke C.

Babies!

I think it's fair to say I have the best summer job ever. I don't even work, I explore. I'm low key Dora the Explorer because there's different things to do every day and new things I learn about. Last Friday at children's we had the pleasure of catching a pregnant female crab! The amount of eggs she had were uncountable. There were probably like thousands. If you've ever watched Finding Nemo, at the start of the movie you see all the fish eggs, they literally look like those in microscopic size. It was a spider crab and she was a lot more gentle than I thought she would be. She was not as overprotective and allowed us to open up and see all her babies. It was quite a catch, everyone who came up to the touch tank was amazed. We soon released her back into the ocean for her safety and for the safety of her eggs.

 

 Not only was that the first time seeing a pregnant crab but this weekend was my first time at the sand sculpting festival at Revere Beach. We set up a station for fish printing and after that I was able to walk around and look at all the pretty sculptures. What job allows you to have fun as working? Mine! I took lots of pictures and my snapchat story was so long. Bella and I got lit as we sat in the model cars from Chevrolet bumping loud music. I enjoyed some fried dough while admiring the sculptures and ice cream. It was a day well spent. My time is never wasted at work. Until next time, can't wait to see what's coming up.

All summer 16

Kharliyah

Choose Your Own Title

So for this blog post, I decided to make the title a multiple choice. There is no correct answer, but I decided that one title could not describe these past few days. So, without further ado, the title options are as follows:

a)    We made toast on a table

b)   Feeling Hot Hot Hot

c)    Do You Want to Paint a Fish (to the tune of Do You Want to Build a Snowman)

Friday was brutal in terms of temperatures. It got well into the 90s, and in the afternoon we were unable to use the tent due to a museum event that needed to be set up. Hence the first and second title options. We ran out of bait halfway through the first shift, so I ran down to the office to get some more bait. While I was gone someone gave us some leftover bread to use as bait, which we did. We had a little leftover, and we ended up leaving it on the table incase we needed more bait. And it turned into toast. No black toast, mind you, but toasted enough that, had it been made in a proper toaster, I would have eaten it. 

Saturday and Sunday I worked at the Revere Beach Sand Castle helping kids fish print. Fish printing is essentially fish stamping. Basically you paint a fish (we used flounder because they’re so flat), press paper onto the fish, remove the paper, and then an image of the fish is stamped onto the paper. I’ve been to the Sand Castle Festival several times, but always as a visitor, not as a worker. It was very interesting working instead of visiting because you get to stop and look around you. Our area was a little off to the side, and I think had we been closer to the sculptures, more people would have come and fish printed. 

Between the blistering heat and being covered in paint, I can say I had an enjoyable weekend. Part of working at Save the Harbor Save the Bay is that some moments can be slower than others, some more uncomfortable than others, and some more trying than others. But best part of working at Save the Harbor Save the Bay has been the experience. It’s put me in positions I thought I’d never be in, and forced me to think on my feet when a surprise situation arises. I never expected this when I started working at Save the Harbor, but I can candidly say that choosing to work at Save the Harbor would be one of the best decisions of my life.

Nearly Headless Nick the Fish

Before

After

Fish Printing is a Messy Business

Nahant and Revere Beach

Sarah M

The More You Know

Hello again fellow adventurers!

This week at Children's Museum the old saying "you learn something new everyday" has held true! Being a marine biology major, I take pride in being able to bring my knowledge on the subject forward to anyone who is willing to listen. For most of the young kids (and even most of the parents) that come pay us a visit at the Children's Museum, they are seeing and experiencing a lot of things for the first time! From touching a crab for the first time, to casting a fishing pole, its an awesome feeling to see the looks of excitement on both the kids and their parents faces.

Seaweed Camouflage!

For example, the other day we pulled up a creepy-crawly spider crab from our crab trap. Although it was not the first one we'd seen, it was the first we saw that had seaweed growing off of it! In reality, the seaweed isn't actually growing out of the crab, instead the crab actually attached the seaweed to its shell! In order to protect themselves from predators, spider crabs have developed an almost hoarder mentality of collecting algae and other foliage to create their own make-shift camouflage. In more tropical parts of the world, spider crabs will attach anemones and even pieces of coral to themselves to blend into coral reefs. In Boston harbor however, the dark murky bottom limits these crabs to using algae and other dark plants. Although they might fool their predators, this camouflage is no match for a crab trap when they wander in looking for a mid afternoon snack.


This week we also began implementing a new activity to our program, knot tying! Any professional sailor (or pirate) knows the importance of knot tying, so we thought it might be fun to teach kids and parents alike some of the most common maritime knots. While I've become square knot pro, arguably the easiest knot to tie,  Sarah is by far the pro. At first some of the kids didn't seem very interested, but after watching Sarah make the knots look like a piece of cake, everyone was eager to test their knot tying skills. Mine might still need some work, but I'm getting better every day, and now some of the kids and their parents can learn something useful for the future, especially if being a full time pirate is your life goal! I'm excited to see what the coming weeks have in store for us at the Children's Museum, and I can't wait to keep sharing my knowledge of the sea with those that come to visit.

Look at all those knots!

Until next time, keep on exploring!

-Luke C.

Mason's Catch

Hi everyone!

Here at Save the Harbor Save the Bay we have been working with a very talented storyteller to improve our storytelling skills, and in hearing other people’s stories about their experiences with the harbor. So, I am going to tell you a story of how my friend Mason now has a story about the harbor to tell for himself.

It was a beautiful, sunny Wednesday afternoon at the Boston Children’s Museum. Opposite of the channel sat part of the city skyline and the Boston Tea Party Museum. A lady had rowed by on her rowboat a few times, and the cool breeze worked with the mildly hot sun to keep us at a very comfortable state.

Until then, the week had been slow as far as our fishing game was concerned. We had only pulled in a few crabs on our fishing lines. Our crew was beginning to pack up our supplies for our lunch break, when Mason and his family approached us and our fishing rods. Like any other kid that comes by, we taught him how to drop cast, and to sit, wait, and hope for the best. However, Mason did not need to wait as long as most of us before he felt a tug on the end of his line. Less than a minute had passed by when Mason realized he had something, and when he went to reel it in, he found a little fish waiting to say “Hi.”

Mason and Luke showing off Mason's catch!

This was Mason’s first fish that he caught, and now he can tell the story of how that happened right here in the Boston Harbor.

Until next time!

Jessie G.

Beating the Heat at Children's Museum

Hello again fellow adventurers!

Today at the Children's Museum we got our first taste of a summer heat wave! Even though the sun was beaming down upon us, we loaded up on sunscreen and baited the hooks for another day of fishing.

Fishing Station: Activated

Look at all those fish!

When the heat became too unbearable, some of the kids took a break by fishing in the shade. You might think fishing with velcro at the end of your pole would be futile, but not when the "fish" you're trying to catch are made out of felt! Our friends at the Children's Museum donated some of their time to create a pond of felt fish for us to add to our program, and so far its been a fan favourite! It is the perfect alternative for some of our younger harbor explorers who are a little too young to cast the bigger rods over the railing in front of the museum, and they're almost always guaranteed a catch! This little girl did not want to put the pole down, and every time she caught a fish, she very generously gave them to me for me to hold on to.

First time touching a crab!

The rest of the day was highlighted mostly by the crabs that we caught in our crab trap. Today we were pleasantly surprised by catching a spider crab! Although they may fall into the "creepy-crawley" category in the eyes of most of the kids, I think they are so cool to handle. After much convincing, I finally got a group of kids to touch a crab for the first time ever! The combination of excitement and utter fear on their faces was so fun to watch, and even more exciting was the swagger they displayed after, feeling accomplished that they had finally touched a crab. While we did not catch a monster striper, or a massive rock crab, the experiences I had today were the epitome of how awesome it is to work at Save the Harbor. Watching these kids experience things they've never been able to do before and seeing the pure joy and excitement on their faces makes this job that much better.

Until next time, keep on exploring!
-Luke

Last days

Hi all,

This week was a shortened week for me. Monday we had staff day, and Friday our site was cancelled due to rain. Despite this, I had a really nice three days. I'm really going to miss working here. I love seeing the kids everyday and being by the ocean. Truly, that is one of the best parts about working for Save the Harbor. When I'm cooped up inside of a classroom come September, I know I'm going to be looking out the window and thinking about the harbor. I'll think about the excited kids who run up to our touch tank, and laughing with the other staff. I am going to do all I can to enjoy my last couple days with Save the Harbor.

-Mike

End of summer...

Hi all,

This summer feels like it has gone by so quickly. It is hard to believe that our programming is coming to a close. The staff at Save the Harbor have made this a truly unique and special summer. Here are some of the best parts for me.

Working at the Boston Children's Museum has been a blast! The JPA's I've worked with have been incredible––caring, hardworking, and wonderful with the kids. Getting to know them has been a fantastic part of my experience, and I have been so impressed. They are such good kids, but really I should say young men and women. They all deserve special mention: Bella, Marco, Ana, Jayda, Ariana, Preston, Max, Ian, Sam, Dex, Andy, Carlos, and Richard. The LHE's were incredible. They lead the site, in the truest sense of the word. They not only led by example, but knew how to motivate the group on some of those hot, hot days. Ahmed and Mark are incredible men who will go far in their lives. I could write whole blog posts about each.

Mark Rose deserves special mention here. Mark is a fairly quiet, modest man, who speaks through his actions. He really led the site this summer. He was a positive example for all the JPA's, and always worked hard at the site. I knew that if there was an issue that I couldn't get to, Mark would have it. I could trust him to be there.With Mark, I was working with a peer. Wherever he goes in life, his honesty, integrity, and work ethic will take him far.

This summer, I also caught my first fish….ever! I grew up by the water, and have been crabbing, clamming, and shell hunting my whole life, but fishing was never really a part of my upbringing. A lot of the kids who come to BCM fish for the first time with us. I have heard over and over "this is so much fun!" or "I love fishing!" I completely understand where they are coming from, and it's a joy to share it with them

This summer I fell in love with Boston Harbor, and this drove me to inspire the same love in others. My hope is that the people who I've shared the Harbor with will continue to feel a connection to it.


Mike

Great end to a great week.

Hey everyone so this week has been a lot of fun, as always. First off, we caught several fish and lots of crabs. This week we caught a really cool purple crab. Yesterday was the best day of the entire week.

So yesterday I met a woman who only spoke Spanish. She also had two little boys who only spoke Spanish as well. It was so cool because I got to use my second language. It was a lot of fun. I got to teach them how to fish and what Save the Harbor does for the community, and all about our summer program, but in Spanish.

There was also another woman that day who only spoke Spanish, and she was from Colombia. She was visiting Boston with her son who was only five years old. I got to hang out and teach and enjoy speaking Spanish with two very nice families, which was great. On top of that, I was offered a tip for the second time this summer. I thought it was so kind and generous. When something like that happens you know your doing a good job and your making a difference.

Like I always say, this job is a lot of fun and its the kind of job where you can have new experiences and have fun. To end this blog I would just like to say have a great weekend everyone, and I look forward to the awesome event tomorrow morning.