On Monday we were introduced to a group of total strangers that we would live with on the schooner next week. Friendships quickly formed on our trip to Spectacle Island. We learned about the history of Spectacle, the various reincarnations as a summer home for local tribes, a colonial trash heap, a refinery for dead horses and most recently as the home of the dirt from the Big Dig.




After the dirt was moved there trees and shrubs were planted.  Later at the highest point on the island, of all of Boston Harbor actually, we attempted some orienteering with mixed success.