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Urban Nature Walk thoughts
Feb. 17th, 2008 01:32 pmAlexis and I walked around the arboretum today, and I got an idea for the next Urban Nature Walk: get a guided tour of some place with the urban nature walkers. We did it a couple years ago when a participant had a friend who was a park ranger on Spectacle Island.
So I looked up some Boston Walking Tour groups and was kind of surprised at the price. It costs 13 to 15 dollars per group member for one of these tours, with a minimum of 130 dollars or so for the whole tour. This means that each tour has to be 10 people or more ideally, which in my opinion is kind of too many.
By the way, I don't charge anything for Urban Nature Walks. That's because I didn't intend to be the group leader--I really just wanted to encourage like-minded people to gather and walk and talk together. But it works better if I lead the group, at least at first.
I'd sort of like to be a paid tour guide, I think I'm pretty good at it, but I don't feel like I have the time for a regular gig. I try to do the UNW monthly, but in winter it's more like once every two months or so. Basically, like everyone, I'd like to work for fun, not money.
I'll probably skip February, as I skipped January. March, even though it is most definitely winter, has at least the promise of spring, what with the Equinox and all, with the beginnings of interesting bird behavior, the appearance of some new plant growth (buds and skunk cabbage mostly), and often light snow tracking possibilities--though just as often it's frozen mud.
If you were coming along on a March Urban Nature Walk in the Boston area with me, where would you want to go?
So I looked up some Boston Walking Tour groups and was kind of surprised at the price. It costs 13 to 15 dollars per group member for one of these tours, with a minimum of 130 dollars or so for the whole tour. This means that each tour has to be 10 people or more ideally, which in my opinion is kind of too many.
By the way, I don't charge anything for Urban Nature Walks. That's because I didn't intend to be the group leader--I really just wanted to encourage like-minded people to gather and walk and talk together. But it works better if I lead the group, at least at first.
I'd sort of like to be a paid tour guide, I think I'm pretty good at it, but I don't feel like I have the time for a regular gig. I try to do the UNW monthly, but in winter it's more like once every two months or so. Basically, like everyone, I'd like to work for fun, not money.
I'll probably skip February, as I skipped January. March, even though it is most definitely winter, has at least the promise of spring, what with the Equinox and all, with the beginnings of interesting bird behavior, the appearance of some new plant growth (buds and skunk cabbage mostly), and often light snow tracking possibilities--though just as often it's frozen mud.
If you were coming along on a March Urban Nature Walk in the Boston area with me, where would you want to go?
