We woke up to a sunny Monday morning and saw trumpeter swans as we left the anchorage at Croil Island and cruised past it as we reentered the Saint Lawrence Seaway headed towards the last Canadian lock at Iroquois. We saw S/V North Dawn on AIS ahead of us and saw her go through the lock as we were 5 miles behind her. This lock is unique in that it only has a four foot change in depths so that as you enter the lock and they close the rear gate, you continue moving through the lock and the front gate opens without you having to tie up. We wished they all could have been this way as this was the grand finale lock for us on the Saint Lawrence Seaway. We continued up the seaway to Brockville where we were planning to anchor. We were dodging a small sailboat regatta as a ship came up behind us and we started to turn off dodging a tour boat and then went around an anchored boat and jet skies and saw that the anchorage was narrow and a thoroughfare to the Brockville Harbour so we turned around and headed back out behind the ship. We continued up the seaway as the ship went to port and we turned to starboard along the small boat channel staying in Canada as the ship channel goes into New York as the border of the two countries is in the middle of the Saint Lawrence River. We looked for an anchorage within Parks Canada Thousand Islands Park and stopped off Grenadier Island at Duck Island Shoal anchorage. There were two other sailboats anchored here so it looked like a great spot for the evening before Canada Day Holiday on July 1. We watched fireworks on the other shore as it got dark and then were awakened in the middle of the night with hard rain. We planned to spend the holiday here out of the boat traffic.
On Tuesday, we heard a honk as we were eating breakfast and it was the Canadian Border Patrol checking to see that we had cleared customs since the other side of the river is in the United States. Glenn pulled out his customs number and the customs officers were very friendly and were gone in a flash circling around the sailboat and then were gone. We had two sailboats and a motor boat anchor in front of us and raft together but they were quiet and left early in the afternoon. Glenn spent the day troubleshooting the wash down pump and generator and got both of them working. There are twenty Parks Canada parks that have dockage or moorings in the Thousand Island between us and Kingsport. We are having a difficult time finding a way to navigate there using the charts and Parks Canada app map.
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