Alexandria Bay
While we were n our little vacation in Lewis County, Mark suggested that we make a day trip up to the Thousand Islands, located along the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Mark has great memories of camping and boating there when he was a young man.
We traveled northward and ended up exploring Alexandria Bay….what an awesome destination this would be to explore for a few days! There is so much to see and do in a fairly compact area! We thought about taking a boat tour, but arrived too late in the day for the one we wanted. Of course, that’s okay because one day, we’ll go back for a good look around!
This is such a terrific place to visit and I only wish we would have started out earlier in the day.
I have never seen a place with more rock! It was incredible to see rock poking up everywhere. Many homes had very tiny amounts of grass growing in their lawns, which were mostly rock!
As you can see, we had a most awesome day when we went to Alexandria Bay. I wish I ould have taken photos in the tiny town…it definitely is a tourist trap with all things themed nautical. As we meandered along in the truck, we spotted a young Amish couple with a small table set up outside of a store. In all honesty, that really surprised me! The horse and buggy were parked off the side of the road. I cannot even begin to imagine how these folks drove into town! I did buy some chocolate chip cookies from them, which my family gobbled up quickly!
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My only experience in the islands was for a hockey tourney about 17 years ago. I think it was in Ganonoque, Ontario. It is an area I would definitely love to go check out eventually, while not on a hockey adventure, lol!
I love the A-Bay area. Bonnie Castle used to belong to a family from Baldwinsville… it might still, I babysat for them several times. They had 4 kids, hired 4 sitters at a time and paid us all $5. and hour. That was outrageous money in the very early 80′s. It’s the same family who own Cole Muffler.
I love the Thousand Islands too. I went on an Uncle Sam Boat tour twice (they have several boats…so who knows if that is the exact one I was on or not?).
I have visited Boldt Castle a few times. When I was a kid, it was an absolute wreck! I was pleasantly surprised to see how much it had been improved last time I was there (maybe 7 years ago?). When my father visited there in the 1940′s…it was just an incomplete castle with a sad story behind it that had been abandoned. There were no formal tours. Anyone could go over on a boat by themselves and walk around. Unfortunately it suffered a lot of vandalism because of that. I’m glad an end was put to that before the castle was completely destroyed.