June 18:  Thousand Islands

After a long walk to ogle the sunset we split some coconut almond ice cream and spent a quiet night at the dock in Clayton.  

We’ve been having some engine trolls (allusion to Sailing Away From Winter, by Silver Don Cameron) and Dan spent much of the morning replacing fuel filters while I ran around town acquiring spare parts at the hardware and auto parts stores.  I also walked the six blocks or so to the grocery store, and when I asked to bag my own backpack in lieu of store bags, they asked if I was on a boat and offered me a ride back to the dock.  This grocery store also will pick shoppers up at their dock - how great is that? While Dan conquered the troll problem I also stocked ice, disposed of the trash and updated our Navionics chart programs on our cell phones.  

We left the dock around noon and spent a wonderful, leisurely afternoon cruising around the American side of the Thousand Islands.  This reminded us of cruising on Penobscot Bay - no real agenda, no real destination.  Even the islands with their rocky shores and trees looks similar to Maine, although there are mostly hardwood trees here and no seals or porpoises, as it is still fresh water.  The water is incredibly clear; we could watch the anchor and its thirty feet of chain drop and lay on the bottom.  How nice it is to be at anchor again!  We haven’t been at anchor since the Hudson River.  

Some of the purchases we made today were River Rat Cheese (great aged cheddar with onions and garlic) and wild-caught haddock.  We had fish on the grill and a salad with cheese for supper, toasting our four-week anniversary since we moved aboard.  (Alright, we didn’t actually leave until Friday, but we did move aboard Wednesday night May 20th.)

NOTE: We will be entering Canadian waters on the 19th, and we’ll be in Canada for the next few months.  Please don’t try to call or text* us unless it’s an emergency, as our phone plan rates go way up.  

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