In anticipation of the 4th of July holiday, the park started filling up on Thursday afternoon and by Friday night there were only a few spots left. We watched a solid line of RV’s line up at the office starting about 1:00 on Friday and the line did not end for at least 3 hours. We even got to meet our neighbors for the first time. We did not have any special plans for the weekend, other than friends visiting on Monday, so we had a relaxing few days. Most of our projects had been completed so we did not have any work to do which allowed us to spend some time by the water to watch the boats drive by.
We have not been going out to dinner very often so I did make a nice dinner of scallops for our celebration dinner. We had looked for decorations on Thursday afternoon but could not find any. However, when a group of ladies took the cut through our spot, we noticed they had an armful of holiday decorations. They told us where to find them in the Price Chopper store so I had Randy run me right over to get decorations for the golf cart. Even thought there is no golf cart parade like we do in Venture Out for the holidays, I wanted it to look festive!
With all the boats out on the water, the water was quite rough so I did not want to do any boating. It was a little better on Monday so I was glad we waited to go out until Monday when Bill and Gail visited. It was still a rough ride through the narrows but Randy snuck behind some of the small islands to get out of the channel as much as we could. Eventually we made our way past the Sunken Rock Lighthouse over to Lake of the Isles. Even though this is not truly a thoroughly enclosed body of water as most lakes are, it is situated in the middle of Wellesley Island. DeWolf Point State Park is at the western end of the lake and extends past Hill Island (Canada) where the lakes opens up to the St. Lawrence River. Its a great spot for anchoring and even though it has the warmest water temperatures on the St. Lawrence River, I still thought it was still a little cool to go swimming. We did enjoy hanging out with Bill and Gail while relaxing on the boat. We did a little sightseeing on the way back in and cruised by the Boldt Castle and checked out the marina where Peter and Paulla will be staying. Randy spotted a pretty new Riviera next to a boat similar to Peter’s. We went to Coleman’s in Alexandria Bay for dinner. Our options were limited as many restaurants were closed. I am not sure if it is because tourism is down because the borders are still closed, but many of the restaurants are only open Thursday through Sunday. The food at Coleman’s was OK, if a little over done, but it was nice sitting outside next to the city dock.
