Thousand islands - st Lawrence

“We took a boat trip for 2.5 hours which took us towards the U.S. border and a romantic castle built by a very rich hotel owner, who has also invented the name Thousand Islands for the famous sauce. It was so nice feeling the wind in my face and watching all the small wooden houses, some even villas, passing by. We even passed a few eagles nests, which were build on stake platforms in the middle of the river. At the last 2 kilometers of our trip a large group of seagulls accompanied us, gliding over our heads in formation. Twice we passed the green bridge over the islands into the U.S.A.”

“Often, as we watch from the shore, a huge tanker ship would pass by on the horizon (the St. Lawrence is a critical link between the industrial Great Lakes cities and the Atlantic Ocean). [...] Because my father is an environmentalist, we almost always use a very slow electric “sea” motor on our many fishing excursions. As a result, it would take us FOREVER to reach our favorite fishing spots.”