The last couple of weeks have been exciting with new places, lots of rain, and looping with friends. We left Winter Harbor in
Brewerton, NY on the Erie and headed north on the
Oswego Canal through eight locks to
Oswego, NY where we stopped for one night and left the next day for
Sackets Harbor, NY across Lake Ontario. We had a south wind which gave us some sideways action for a couple of hours but generally a good trip across the Lake, about 40 miles.
Sackets Harbor is a great historical town where a key battle of the War of 1812 was fought. It was one of only two naval bases on Lake Ontario the US had during the war and had to fend off a British invasion from the west. Willi and I walked the whole battlefield. Check it out on google or your history books. We spent three days, one more than planned to change transmission fluid on Here and Now. Our traveling companions went on to Clayton, NY where we caught up with them on the 25th of June. We stopped and picked up Bob and Pam from Mint Julep and all went together on our boat about 11 miles further down the St Lawrence River to Alexandria Bay and stopped on Heart Island to visit the
Boldt Castle. The story of the castle is interesting and for more info...google!. We returned to Clayton, NY a 'border' town where the Antique Boat Museum resides...a really neat place. We left Clayton today and arrived in Kingston, Ontario Canada where we cleared customs and will be here a few days including Canada Day on July 1. Clayton and this whole area is part of the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River and there are actually more than 1700 small islands many of which are privately owned. This is where the famous dressing was first served and named after the islands. It is a beautiful area with many fine homes and lots of state parks in both the US and Canada.
We have traveled @ 3500 miles and will be in Canada for about 45 days. The weather as been OK but a lot of rain...we have had to travel in the rain some but made it OK with low winds. We will be leaving Kingston later this week heading for Trenton to start the 250 mile Trent-Severn Waterway connecting Lake Ontario with Georgian Bay. Here are a few recent pics....enjoy!
Be Safe
You don't call, you don't write, no emails, no faxes!! I just want to know how Willi is doing! Miss ya'll! We are coming to see you. Where are you? We are driving up - seriously. We want to catch up with ya'll and Bob and Pam. Send me an email or something within the next few day. We think we will leave tomorrow and try to find ya'll. louiswade@earthlink.net
ReplyDeleteI am serious - we leave tomorrow to go look for ya'll. Louis & Diane