Given our Sunday/Monday visit prior to the end of the school year, we had our choice of scenic waterfront sites. In a few weeks.....this place will be a madhouse. Lots of great sites though, just nicer without neighbours.
We did leave the campsite long enough to drive the Parkway up to Brockville for breakfast, before taking a more leisurely drive back along the riverside. Recent flooding meant that many docks and cottages had water where they should not.
We also stopped at the Thousand Islands National Park visitor centre, though most of the Park is actually out on several islands in the river. Next time we plan to camp out there, just not enough time this trip. Call it a scouting mission.....a very successful scouting mission.
We travelled back as far as Gananoque for a great lunch at The Socialist Pig, right beside the Gananoque Brewing Company. A short grocery (and ice) run later, we were back at the campground for some serious R&R. I read two and a half books over two days - the autobiography of Alan Doyle from Great Big Sea, Gordon Downie's poetry in Coke Machine Glow, and part of a Robert Ludlum spy thriller. Cold beer, river breezes and the babbling brook rounded out perfection.
Definitely a place we will have to return for a longer visit!
Down by the River
Campsite 117
Our little offshoot of the St. Lawrence - a short brook into a cove
Now to put the Cole in Coleman....
Thousand Islands Bridge to NY State - view from the campground!
Greetings to the Natural World at the National Park
Red Chairs with a view!
Free admission to National Parks for Canada 150
Great brewery in quaint downtown Gananoque
A bountiful bevy of brews for riverside sipping
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