Everyone knows about the Boston Duck Tours, but there’s a new outfit in set to start tours from Charlestown soon: Super Duck Tours. I saw this one this morning at the intersection of Causeway and North Washington Streets, headed over the Charlestown Bridge.
According to an article about the amphibious tours in Maine, these Ducks are custom made for tourism (the Boston Duck Tours boats are old WWII military vehicles). A piece at CharlestownBridge.com says that they will leave from the Navy Yard and tour a route different from the Duck Boats:
The vehicles will load at Terry Ring Way in the Navy Yard, follow the truck route down Chelsea Street to the seaport and enter the water at the Little Mystic Channel. The Autoport on Terminal Street will serve as the maintenance and storage site for the vehicles. The tours begin daily at 9 a.m. and will take between one hour and one-quarter and one hour and one-half. Up to five tours could run each day, and the season could typically run from April through the end of November, depending on demand.
Now I know that Boston Duck Tours currently has a monopoly on the city’s amphibious tourism industry, but do we really need choice in our Ducks?
