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| Mollie taking this photo of us loading Boats |
St Lawrence Islands National Park, Visitors Center loading Ramp.
Today’s planned paddle only take us to one Lighthouse, The Sisters, which is located on the south east end of Grenadier Island barely on the U.S.A. side of the border line. The weather has been calling for mainly sunny, with south easterly winds, which means we would be starting our paddle from The St Lawrence Islands National Park, Visitors Center, in stead of starting in Rockport and paddling east. We will be paddling southwest to the east end of Grenadier, paddling between it and Adelaide Island, then with light winds and waves at our backs we will travel along the south side of Grenadier to the Sisters Light.
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| Winds are lights.... yahoo!!! |
What a beautiful day for a paddle.
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| Can you believe this water, so clear and the colours Wow!!! |
Brent wearing the Tilley Hat, Yes, from the extra gear bin, that was the one things forgotten today.
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| Cook Island Cottage |
36 minutes from launch, had us paddling past many of the small islands on the east end of Grenadier, with each stroke of our paddles, we glide past grand old cottages on islands with names like St Helena, Cook, Harrowsmith and Long Schooner, no doubt generations old.
Still heading south west we round Willoughby Island, which brings into view of the Sisters Lighthouse . There it was, modestly standing in the center of the open channel.
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| Channel makers to the left, Lighthouse way in the distance between the Islands |
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| Brent check out the channel makers |
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| How nice is this, Small waves and at our backs. |
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| Approaching lighthouse from the east |
As we approached we observe the strength and beauty of this old limestone lighthouses structure, but time and weather has taken it’s tole on this part of nautical history.
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| Think this will be the Calender Photo |
Our Lighthouse Index Description “Three Sisters Islands are a string of three tiny islets, now linked together by concrete break walls and walkways, that run parallel to and just south of the international boundary line separating the United States and Canada. The Sisters Island Lighthouse was constructed in 1870 on the easternmost of these islets to mark a precarious spot along the channel that passed on the Canadian side of the islands“
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| North Side of the Lighthouse |
You can see the Osprey in the nest to the right of the light in the chimney.
Brent and I sat in our kayaks and wondered what it would have been like back in 1875 sitting on this island, under the large maple tree with the breeze keeping you cool during the hot summer days. The chores could not have been many as the Island is barely 100 ft wide and 300ft long in total. Possibly a lonely life but both Canada & U.S.A. was only a good couple of hours paddle away. We came to the conclusion it would have been a much simpler, harder but good life just the same.
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| Ospery checking us out |
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| Watch Dog |
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| Great shot of Brent north side of lighthouse with the MS flag on dock. |
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| E Gavel present owners of the Sisters Lighthouse |
After doing our flag photo’s, munchies and water break, it was time to move on. As per our paddle plan we would continue heading west along Grenadier Island for approx 8 kms. This would get us to Rockport and our pullout spot, that’s if we travelled straight there. That’s never going to happen……smiling.
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| Brent under Pipe Light Maker west end of St Lawrence Island National Park. |
Wind still at our backs we paddled past and around many more islands which brought us to the most westerly part of the St Lawrence Islands National Park at the end of Grenadier Island. I took a photo of Brent passing under a modern light pipe.
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| One of many Totems by this property. |
Now our paddle route would take us north west past Little Grenadier, Doctor and the west end of Tar Island and into Rockport. As we got to Tar we noticed this beautiful home with many totem poles along the shore line, very very nice location.
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| Many totems vey cool. |
Rounding Tar island our radio cracks and I heard our favour shore crew, asking is that you guys coming around the island? Grabbing my radio I let Mollie know yes, it was us. Happy we where safe, she proceed to direct us into the public boat ramp next to the Rockport Restaurant & Boat Tours dock .
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| Crossing from Tar Island to Rockport |
What a beautiful spot of the world, maybe that is why we have seen no less then 8 Island Cruises/Boats in the area.
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| Great landing spot, Brent laughing at the old guy and we will not say Why....smiling. |
Rockport cruise dock nest to public boat launch.
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| What a great girl, a truck load for us.......Really!! |
We where happy to see that she had commandeered a Beer Truck as the day was getting very hot, it's Miller Time.
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| Great lunch locations, as Mollie says "it has a washroom how bad can that be". |
Kayaks up loaded we had lunch in the wonderful park located in the center of the village, nice water views from there. Lunch completed we where off for home.
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| Across parking lot from lunch location, looking at Public Launch next to Rockport Boat Tour Restaurant. |
When we where eating there was 7 Tour Buses in the parking lot, very busy place. Now we know why we seen all the tour boats during or paddle into Rockport.
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| The little bear went to Spain, France and Italy with us. time to send him home to the states, this was a TB hotel. |
Heading home Hummmm, not before doing at least a couple of geocaches along the way. We had a few Travel Bugs needing to be relocated and sent on their way.
Four caches done we headed for home, another awesome lighthouse, another awesome day on the water with family. Life is good.
Paddle solo, Sleep tandem
Out Takes
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| Mollie trying not to laugh |
This is Mollie trying not to laugh at our funny jokes........NOT WORKING!!!!
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| Randy Night, standing next to Brent |
We met this young man who has been on the road for 16 months and is pretty much biking around the world. He will be heading to Toronto then south to Mexico.
So you what do you think of our little adventure.........smiling. Nice young man from New Zealand.
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| Osprey Nest on very small Island |
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