Aug 10-11, Brockville, ON

Leaving Prescott we see a large sailing ship berthed at the town breakwater and the largest Canadian Coast Guard ship based in the Great Lakes. We moved another 10 miles southwest against the current on the St Lawrence River to Brockville, Ontario.

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Canadian Coast Guard Ship GRIFFON.

Stone home along the waterway.

We are staying at the Brockville Municipal Marina which is right at the foot of downtown. There is a park along the breakwater and we are tied to the wall adjacent to the park. We have good power and good internet.

Brockville Marina.

Brockville was first settled beginning in the 1780's by those loyal to England and who moved here after the American Revolutionary War. The town became very prosperous and many fine buildings were constructed in the 1880's that still are in use today.

Courthouse up the hill.

Downtown Brockville.

Victorian houses.

Brockville City Hall.

Brockville is a nice town with several good restaurants, grocery, hardware and a very good used bookstore. The waterfront park is active with tourists. There are two boats just behind us taking people on a two hour cruise to see the Thousand Islands. Lots of visiting Canadian boaters from Montreal at the marina too.

The St Lawrence River, beginning at Brockville, begins the area that is considered the eastern edge of the Thousand Islands and from here the Thousand Islands stretch east for the next fifty miles. Here the terrain changes and the granite islands appear almost continuously in the St Lawrence River. Many of these islands have houses. It is a famous and interesting area. The shipping channel winds through the islands and the large ships and the small islands make quite a contrast. The whole area is very beautiful. On the question of what makes an island, the locals tell us that these granite rocks are just rocks unless they have two trees. If they have two trees then they are islands. Sounds good to us.