Thousand Islands
Confederation Basin
We woke up to a bright sunny morning in our picture perfect
anchorage. The Thousand Islands is an amazingly beautiful place. There are over
15 Canadian National Parks where we could dock and spend time hiking, swimming
and relaxing, and we would love to spend a week or so exploring this area, but
there just isn't enough time left in this summer to do it all...so we wound our
way through the maze of islands up the St. Lawrence to Kingston. Kingston,
Ontario is located in Eastern Ontario where the Saint Lawrence River flows out of
Lake Ontario and is midway between Toronto and Montreal.
We docked in Confederation Basin around 11:30. The marina was
full, but we were allowed to stay on the day dock. It's not the greatest view
from the boat, but it's free and we have easy access to everything in town and
the company is nice...we met Bill and Laura, another MTOA couple off of Kindred
Spirit III. We had lunch in a little sidewalk café and spent the afternoon exploring
the town, it really has a European feel to it.
We enjoyed happy hour visiting with Jim and Laura...it's
always fun exchanging stories with other boaters. Later we walked down the
street to the Kingston Brewing Company for dinner. We started visiting with the
people at the next table...they asked us if we were visiting Kingston on a
boat? We've had several people the last month ask us that...do we look
different or smell different? Anyway, this couple lives on their trawler in
Ontario during the summer and spend the winter on their sailboat in Granada.
They were a lot of fun to visit with.
Today's scenery
Aerial view of the Thousand Islands near the Thousand Island Bridge (courtesy of the Internet)
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