Vacation Day Five - Uncle Sam's Boat Tour

We had dinner and stayed the night in the Thousand Islands Inn. It was a hundred years old and showing its age. But, you have heard of the salad dressing they invented, right?



Our room faced the park across the street (and the river). The places in the grass that look worn out are where a huge slab of rock shows through.





On the drive from Clayton to Alexandria Bay, we saw a huge nest on top of a utility pole (and a second one a little further down the road). I think that it is a baby Osprey or Seahawk sitting there.



In Alexandria, they flagged us right into the parking lot for Uncle Sam's Boat Tours. We took a three-hour tour of the Thousand Islands.




The 1,700 islands that they call the Thousand Islands are mostly privately owned. Boldt Castle is an estate that is open to tourists, and I think that they said that $30 million had been spent on renovations. The next photo is just a utility building at the edge of the island. (We didn't get off the tour boat and pay the $7 to walk around because we were pretty tired by then.)



At the other extreme were islands with one tree: