Re: The 2011 Great Adventure to Lake Ontario - 1000 islands!!
To recap why and how we chose this location for our trip:
My wife and I have set out on a mission to visit, cross, and ?conquer? all 5 Great Lakes. We currently live on Lake Erie and do most of our boating here, so Lake Erie has been explored, crossed, and conquered several times over! Last summer we completed our journey to Chicago by crossing Lake Michigan (search ?Lake Michigan to Chicago trip for photos and a recap of that trip). This year the great adventure was to Lake Ontario! In researching locations, destinations, and routes to take, I came across the 1000 islands. A stretch of the St Lawrence Seaway 20 miles long that is littered with over 1,700 individual islands. Upon researching the area and discovering how amazing and truly beautiful this place was, it was decided on a cold December night that if we were going all this way to Lake Ontario, we should spend the week boating in this area. After months of research, countless hours of reading about the 1000 islands on the internet, our trip was planned. We would trailer our boat 533 miles to Oswego Ny, launch at Oswego and begin our 67 mile crossing of lake Ontario up to the St Laurence Seaway and to our private islands (bluff island).
That?s right, we were blessed to have found a beautiful island for rent right in the heart of the 1000 islands! We rented a home on Bluff Island, located in the city of Clayton NY. Only way on and off the island was by boat! This was a sure way to guarantee plenty of boating and ultimate privacy. We spent 6 nights and 7 days in the thousand islands exploring one of the most beautiful freshwater boating locations in the world! Below is the story of our great adventure!
Our great adventure started off like this:
4:15AM Dunkin Donuts?.As you can see here we took two trucks and two boats. The Scarab was used for the crossing, while the aluminum was trailered up to the town of Clayton (2 miles from our island) and was launched there and used as a ?rum runner? for quick trips into town and bumming around for late night cruises.
