Photos Taken October 2011 From my experience, few people are aware that The Thousand Islands refers to an actual place and not just salad dressing. The area in question is between Ontario and New York, along the St. Lawrence River and the uppermost section of Lake Ontario. The...
Photos taken May & October 2009 Simply put, this is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. Mohegan Bluffs, found on the southern end of Block Island, drop down nearly 200 feet to the beach below. Centuries ago, much of the Mohegan tribe was forced...
I read about this cemetery after my first trip to Block Island and decided to look for it on my second trip. I had never been to an “Indian” cemetery before and was curious to see one. This graveyard was used by the Manisee tribe who originally inhabited...
Not far from the port on Block Island can be found the ruins of the Ocean View Hotel, destroyed by fire in 1966. Sections of the foundation and some rubble are all that remains of it today. The area also had quite a bit of poison ivy, so...
Another place found due to geocaching. I’d been wanting to go to this island for over 2 years but never had the time or anyone willing to cross the Manasquan River with me in my crappy inflatable raft. It was really cool exploring what appeared to be a...
The back of the fort as seen from Fort Mott. We noticed on one of our visits to Fort Mott that a ferry runs among 3 forts: Forts Mott, Delaware, and DuPont. I found out Fort Delaware is on its own island, Pea Patch Island, in the middle...
Just offshore of Mystic Island is an island with an abandoned fish factory on it. Some people refer to it as “The Stinkhouse” because of the alleged stench coming from the island. A group of us, including William from It’s New Jersey, rented a small boat and headed...
