Loop Life with Greg and Reenie: CLAYTON to GANANOQUE

Sunday was an absolutely beautiful day to cross the St. Lawerence River from CLAYTON to GANANOQUE. We navigated through a few of the "Thousand Islands" dotting the St. Lawerence River leaving the United States and entering Canada. Before entering Canada, we refueled with diesel at RJ's Marina in CLAYTON.

Looper Tip: Fuel prices are much lower on the US side of the boarder!

The big task of the day was to clear Canadian Customs. Always a little confusing and stressful when entering by private vessel (even thought we are 100% legal :). Captain Greg called the appropriate Canadian Office aboard Thistle by phone once in Canadian Waters. Remotely we received our Canadian Reporting Number....Yeah! We then proceeded to the GANANOQUE Customs Dock and "officially" entered Canada by a simple telephone call! All in all pretty easy .... Eh?

Once in GANANOQUE we contemplated staying at the Marina, but decided on the historic Gananoque Inn. By renting a room for the night, Thistle is free to stay on the hotel dock for the night ( and Reenie gets to take a bubble bath - special treat :) The hotel also had nice bikes to ride around the town (we have our folding bikes aboard but, nice to have the option).

Please don't worry if you are wondering how to pronounce GANANOQUE? One way to remember its "The right way, the wrong way and the Ontario way GAN" ... Much easier :)

We had a local beer at the hotel, dinner at Stonewater, watched the NBA Finals in our room and had a great nights sleep ... We are pushing off the dock to the Thousand Islands National Park for the next few days!