We're anchored in the St. Lawrence Seaway near Morristown, NY. My brother, Jim, has a home overlooking the Seaway and we anchored right in front of his house. Jim and my sister, Beth, and her husband, Paul, all met us at Cape Vincent, NY and we cruised down the St. Lawrence to his house near Morristown.

Here's Jim at the wheel in the Seaway.

And Beth and Paul on the flybridge. The water really was that blue that day.

Canada! What's cool about this picture is that here in the St. Lawrence Seaway, Canada is the land on the left and USA is the land on the right. Jim's house looks out over the St. Lawrence to Brockville in Canada on the other side. Tonight (7/1/07) we watched the Canadian Independence Day fireworks display at Brockville from the decks of Nonchalance.

Then we cruised through the "Thousand Islands" area of the St. Lawrence river. It is absolutely lined with little islands with fancy homes built on them. The shorelines of the mainland are equally lined with homes. With the granite and sandstone rocks as a base and the pinetrees on top the islands area really is a beautiful area of the country. How'd you like to have your own island to live on?

Some of them have actual castles built on the islands. The top castle is Boldt Castle on Heart Island, and the lower castle is Singer Castle (the sewing machine company owner). Both of these were built in the guilded age around 1900 and both are now open to the public for tours.

Some of the islands had beautiful lighthouses on them.

Here's the view out Jim's deck doors where we anchored when we arrived. The bottom holding was not good so we put out 150 ft. of anchor line before we could get the achor to really dig in hard. Both the current and the wind were coming from the West.

OOPS! At nightfall, when a storm came through and the wind blew 35 MPH straight towards shore, the anchor line stretched tight and boat swung in so close to shore that it almost contacted Jim's boathouse! Luckily, the port rudder touched bottom and stopped the boat before it actually touched the boathouse, but it was so close that by this picture, I had jumped from the boathouse dock to Nonchalance.

Then Jim got a ladder and Kathy and Jim boarded to help pull on the anchor line to get it around the anchor winch. After we had it on the winch, Kathy used the winch to pull the boat out into deep water where I could use the props to move us safely too a dock for the night. No harm to either the boat or the boathouse!

Then we came back this morning and anchored again, farther out this time. We have swung in straight towards the baothouse again and were still more than 200 ft from it this time. WHEW!

We went to one of the many park islands in the Seaway for a picnic and had it all to ourselves, except for the family of minks inhabiting the island which we saw many times. Jim's wife, Laurie is there with Jim. Beth, Paul and Kathy. Laurie spent most of today cooking and we really ate well. Yum!

There are huge seagoing tankers like this one, possibly 1,000 ft. long, passing by in the St. Lawrence Seaway. It's fun to see them, but their wake rocks us around where we're at anchor even though they're passing a half mile away from us when they pass.