A great overnight on Bumpkin Island!
Great moments – getting my tent set up in the rain…
Rain stops (hurrah!)
A hawk visits the campsite.
Dinner – smoked salmon and salad wraps. Bancha tea.
>Tea = hot, makes the rainy weather much better<
Checking out the campfires on the beach. Try to light one but wisely give up before using all the matches(!)
Early to bed.
12:00 Jets overhead!!! The clouds are parting, the wind has changed direction and incoming flights to Logan are passing overhead. Very cool to watch them from the beach.
6:00 I hear ringing. time to get up!
Sun is rising, the sky is clear, yeehah!
Coffee and excellent blueberry pancakes a la Coleman…
Dry out the tent on the beach.
Walk around the island.
Back at the campsite for meditation. Visited by a Monarch butterfly. Small bird comes down and sits on some elephant’s ear right in front of me. All puffed up in the sunlight, she’s drying out from last night’s rain.
11:00 ride back to George’s Island
12:30 ride back to Boston
Excellent trip!
Next time: bring firewood, park in Quincy (cheaper), and stay out more than one night!
People doing this are also doing these things:
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Build a garden at the McKinley School with BU's Organic Gardening Club and help integrate the garden into the kids' education
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Hothouse a few different organic vegetables this winter and sell them to BU students in the GSU to facilitate dialogue between like-minded people as well as the to educate those who are unaware of the importance of organic, locally grown produce
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build up the Dance Front
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Got my camp site booked and I’m going August 25th.
Bumpkin Island here I come!
Wish me good weather!
Weird to ‘book’ a campsite. How strange is that?
Its not like I’m taking an RV into Boston Harbor :-)
But- off I go :-)
camped out on grape island & toured about on the boats a bit.
so nice to get away to the somewhat wilds.
the island’s ecology is in transition, only now moving through its succession from shrubs and fast growth trees to larger, more established trees.
despite the odd grassy swaths that direct you around the island, the non-running water camp sites were great: recycled plastic picnic tables & a keyhole shaped site.
the best part was getting up in the middle of the night and making a driftwood fire on the beach & then skinny-dipping in the somewhat frigid ocean, heh.
a great weekend, :1
i’m excited to do it again! on another island! grape was lovely, but i’d love to try out bumpkin + others.
we made a beach fire and swam in the harbor in the middle of the night and didnt see any stars but saw a fox and a lot of stag horn sumac trees and picked-clean berry bushes and boston from the south east angle and muchhh muchhh more. wee.
so last week mary and i went to the islands for a day and played on Peddocks and Georges island….and on august 12 i have a reservation to camp on grape island! during the meteor showers!!! i couldn’t be more excited. :D
