Hundreds Visit Spectacle Island With Save the Harbor/Save the Bay

Photo 1: Nicole Murphy of Arlington stops for a photo on her way back to the Provincetown II after a day spent exploring Spectacle Island

Photo 2: 360 Treasure Hunters Visited Spectacle Island With Save the Harbor/Save the Bay. RSVP to Gaylord@savetheharbor.org to reserve your spot for October 24.

Photo 3: Storyteller Norah Dooley shared stories of Boston Harbor’s past with participants as the pirate Mary Reade

On Saturday, September 26th, 360 people visited Spectacle Island aboard Bay State Cruise Company’s Provincetown II for Save the Harbor/Save the Bay’s first free fall cruise of the 2015 season. Sunny skies and temperatures in the 60’s provided perfect weather for hiking the trails and hunting for artifacts on Treasure Beach.

Storyteller and Mass Humanities Scholar Norah Dooley shared stories of pirates and shipwrecks of Boston Harbor’s past as the pirate Mary Reade and helped participants search for treasure on the beach.

Some lucky treasure hunters found JetBlue marbles and entered the “Simply Marble-ous” Treasure Hunt for a chance to win a pair of round-trip JetBlue flights to any domestic destination they serve from Boston’s Logan Airport! Keep an eye out on Boston’s beaches for a blue marble of your own—we will accept entries until October 31st—just send us an email at info@savetheharbor.org with a photo of yourself with your marble, your name, neighborhood, and your contact information!

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay will host one more free fall cruise to Spectacle Island this year on October 24th to celebrate the end of another great season on Boston Harbor. If you would like to join them on the 24th, please RSVP to Gaylord@savetheharbor.org.

Save the Harbor’s free youth environmental education and family programs are made possible with Leadership Grants from Bay State Cruise Company, The Boston Foundation, Distrigas/GDF SUEZ, and The Coca-Cola Foundation.

Save the Harbor is grateful for Partnership Grants from Forrest Berkley & Marcie Tyre Berkley, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, The Chiofaro Company, The Clowes Fund, Marion L. Decrow Memorial Foundation, Alice Willard Dorr Foundation, The Fallon Company, Hampshire House Corporation – Cheers for Children, John Hancock Financial Services, Inc., Mass Humanities, Massachusetts Bay Lines, Massachusetts Environmental Trust, Massachusetts Port Authority, National Grid Foundation, P&G Gillette, William E & Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust, and Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation. Save the Harbor also appreciates funding support from 3A Marine Service, Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Foundation, Andus Baker & Rowan Murphy Family Fund, Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, BOMA, Boston Bruins Foundation, Boston Global Investors, Boston Properties – Atlantic Wharf, Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Andrew J. Calamare, Carnival Foundation, Circle Furniture, The Daily Catch Seaport, Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation, Ms. Wallace M. Leonard Foundation, Paul & Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, Thomas & Lucinda Foley, HYM Investment Group Inc., Lovett-Woodsum Foundation, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, National Park Service, Nicholson Foundation, P&G Gillette, Reebok Foundation, Rockland Trust – Peoples Federal Foundation, Skanska, South Boston Community Development Foundation, Spectra Energy, Matthew J. & Gilda F. Strazzula Foundation, Lawrence J. & Anne Rubenstein Foundation, Senior Housing Property Trust, South Boston Community Development Foundation, TD Bank Charitable Foundation, Kyle & Sara Warwick, and the hundreds of individual donors who help make these programs possible.

Save the Harbor would also like to thank our partners at the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Metropolitan Beaches Commission, the Boston Centers for Youth and Families and the YMCA of Greater Boston for their support.

For more information about Save the Harbor/Save the Bay and the work they do to restore, protect and share Boston Harbor, the harbor islands and the metropolitan region’s public beaches, visit their website at www.savetheharbor.org, their youth and beach blog Sea, Sand & Sky at blog.savetheharbor.org and follow savetheharbor on Facebook and Twitter.