Sunday, September 2, 2012

1000 islands,NY

We started at 8:00am from China town,NY. The climate was cloudy. We booked a package tour to visit 1000 islands and Niagara falls. It will be 10hrs journey by road. We had a breakfast in Mcdonald. Had begal, burger and coke. Neeta bought sandwich and samosa. Girish prepared parotas. So we had nice breakfast there.
When we reached 1000 islands it was 4:00pm. We went by boat to look around the islands. There are small small islands which has house or trees in it. We saw one small international bridge between NY and Canada.
About 1000 islands
The 1000 Islands Region is an international tourism destination, encompassing communities on both sides of the US and Canada border along the St. Lawrence River and the eastern shores of Lake Ontario. The region takes its name from the more than 1000 islands that dot the lake and river along this international waterway. The region extends from Kingson to Cornwall on the Canadian side, and from Oswego to Massena on the US side, reaching inland to the foothills of the Adirondack mountains to embrace the communities that are west and north of the Adirondack Park, and the four NY Counties of Oswego, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence.

The 1,864 islands range in size from over 40 square miles to smaller islands occupied by a single residence, or uninhabited outcroppings of rocks that are only home to migratory waterfowl. To count as one of the Thousand Islands these minimum criteria had to be met: 1) Above water level year round; 2) Have an area greater than 1 square foot and 3) Support at least one living tree.


We left 1000 islands and stayed in Holiday inn hotel. The next day our scheduled departure was at 7:00am. We couldn't found hotels for dinner, So we had parotas which we bought and slept nicely.

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