RAINSFORD ISLAND – The largest piece of floatsam in Boston Harbor, a 55-foot-long finback whale, came to rest Tuesday on a stretch of sharp, slippery rocks on the southwest corner of Rainsford Island, near the tip of Hull. This may or may not be the final resting place of the only whale to die in Boston Harbor in at least a generation or two.
Once there, with its first chance to dry out in the air, it did what dead whales do as well as anything – it let off a stink that could be bottled and used as a weapon.
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Will somebody in the Glob city room please give this Billy Baker a NOAA chart of Boston Harbor with a plexiglass layover with major landmarks? Maybe he will be focused enough to realize that the Black Falcon Terminal is inland of Long Island and that Boston Light is way easterly by more than a mile to seaward of Long Island, and is actually outside Boston Inner Harbor? And lastly, will the Glob please stop reverting to form of assigning sealack scribblers to ocean tales when they ought to be limited to landlubbing. There must certainly be somebody in said city room that has hove to and knows that a red light means starboard when returning.
I love how Billy deals with all the flora and fauna stories he gets assigned, including this one and the one about Zeke the rogue turtle.
boatwrote, why don't you take Billy out and show him all this; you obviously know your stuff and I imagine BB would be a quick study.