The tour’s website on Doing Our Part reads “Quack-Quack Give Back!”, and it is obvious they are doin

While visiting Boston for a family wedding in August, we decided to experience the city's infamous Duck Tour.  Beginning 15 years ago with four restored World War II DUKWs – vehicles capable of driving onland or motoring in water – the Duck Tour takes passengers on a 90-minute ride around the city's streets and its harbor. airline travel vacation Each DUCK (so nicknamed by the Allied soldiers who used them) is manned by a licensed Coast Guard Captain with a bit of personality and lots of great stories to tell; our resident driver referred to himself as General Lee Lost and entertained us with cheesy humor and loads of history.  Thankfully, he seemed to know his way around airline travel vacation town quite well!  (Perhaps airline travel vacation just luck, he'd probably say.)
The tour is a fun way to see the sights and definitely a unique means of getting out into the water!  Just make sure you know where the life vests are in case the 12-year old girl the Captain lets guest-drive the boat decides to test its WWII power (in truth, airline travel vacation no DUKW or DUCK has ever capsized or collided in the harbor).
What I like most about the Duck Tour, though, is its incredible penchant for "greenness".  This is definitely one of the most community-involved and environmentally-friendly sight-seeing tours I've come across!  While we traveled around in one of the nine older vehicles, the Tour's fleet now consists of 15 new DUCKs running on bio-diesel fuel with plans to become entirely DUCK-dependent within the next few years.  (This is rather than DUKW-dependent, which is the term used only for the original vehicles.  The new fleet should be referred to as DUCKs, as Historian Jim Healy was kind enough to explain to me via email.)
The tour's website on Doing Our Part reads "Quack-Quack Give Back!", and it is obvious they are doing just that.  Focusing on clean water and education, Boston Duck Tours offers guests the option of rounding up the price of their ticket to the next dollar and will donate the extra amount to one of three organizations: Charles River Clean Up Boat, Boston Public Library Youth Programs, or Community Boating.  At the end of the season, 100% of the change raised is matched by the Tours.  On top of this fundraising, the group is active in improving the water quality airline travel vacation and recreational potential of the Charles River, mentoring students interested in the travel industry, and supporting local teachers airline travel vacation through the Massachusetts Teachers Association.  Can you say "involved"?
Amazingly, I haven't even listed here everything they do, but you can find out more at www.bostonducktours.com or (even better) by hopping on a DUCK yourself when you're in town.  What a great way to keep a low environmental impact and support such positive community interaction.  This is truly doing things The Green Globetrotter way!