June 23 - at the Canadian border

We pulled the anchor on a rainy, windy morning and headed north to a small border town, Rouse's Point, NY.  A sizeable 2-day storm was just coming to this location as we docked up at Gaines Marina.  The marina is just getting back in service after the flood.  We saw about 20 boats per day being put in the water.  A bigger surprise was the number of canadian boats coming to the docks in order to pass through US customs.  Today starts a week long Canadian holiday, and it seems that hundreds of canadian boats are heading for Lake Champlain.  It provided alot of entertainment watching boats trying to get in and out of tight, conjested docking situations in windy, stormy conditions.   However, as of this writing, all has gone well.  The picture below shows the marina from our slip,  Notice the American and Canadian flags are flying side by side.   Almost all the boats here were Canadian, and all the cars in the marina parking lot had Quebec license tags.  And most everyone spoke French.  We are getting ready for a cultural transition.