What a Clean Boston Harbor Means To Me

Sometimes my mom tells me stories about how when she was a kid, she went to the Boston Yacht Club with her brothers and parents. She always talks about how she took sailing lessons and had so much fun learning with people her age and being able to swim in the water afterwards on hot days. She tells me stories about how she used to put jellyfish on the docks and slime on the dock to make it slippery so she and her brother would slide into the water in different poses. (Don’t worry they didn’t step on the jellyfish and they weren’t the stinging kinds.) They just used the slime on them to make the dock slippery.

Now that I am around the same age as my mom was then. I go to the same yacht club that my parents still go to and now my siblings and I go to the same one in the summer, jumping off the same docks that my parents and her siblings always did. I’m able to see my cousins at Nantasket Beach during the summer and go in the water and body surf the waves with them and have so much fun.

I’m so thankful to be able to spend time with my siblings, sometimes my cousins and my grandparents. I owe all my thanks to all those organizations that participated in helping to clean it up. I also owe a big thanks to you guys, the MWRA, who built the facilities that are currently on Deer Island that helped clean up the harbor for people to ride boats in and swim in and more. Meaning that what a clean Boston Harbor means to me is that people who visit Boston or even live here can have all sorts of fun in the water on hot sunny days including surfing, swimming, rock skipping and maybe even going on a boat ride. One thing I get to do is go on that walking path that leads to Castle Island and I get to look out in the harbor around me and see a clean blue harbor and no piece of trash lingering in it.