We started the day with Barbara's wonderful scrambled eggs and the left over Bras D'Or smoked salmon All so delicious! Graeme and I had a lot to do today so we left the house about 9.30 am and arrived at the rental car place an hour later .Have to say we have been so pleased with the service Enterprise Cars have given us.The free pick up and drop off is a real plus, especially when you are living on a boat. Quick unpack and we were soon on our way down to Heart Island where Bolt Castle stands for the immigration checkpoint into the USA.
It was an easy ride through the northern part of the 1,000 Islands , and even though we encountered a couple of big tankers , there was plenty of room to pass by each other. These Islands are all shapes and sizes and in fact there are well over 1,000 more like 1800 islands.
About 2/3 rds of them are on the Canadian side and 1/3 on the USA side. The checking with immigration went very smoothly .The officer even tied up the boat and three U.S. The lines when we left. Just a10 min job!
Alexandria Bay was just across the other side of the river and we were able to fuel up and pump out at the Horizon Marina.Julie and Mike the owners were most helpful and then Mike guided us over to the Thousand Island Club, he also owns where our boat is to be docked until ready to go into the heated storage facility on the 9th. Lovely facility and he kindly kept the water on for us .Normally they have shut it off already . Dinner onboard , using up the last of our frozen food.The organic steak we bought back in NE Maine at the Farmers Market. We got out the BBQ, hadn't used it the whole trip ! The Skipper did a great job cooking! Finished the evening off watching a DVD called Black Hat.
Over and Out
S and S
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