Shore Excursions - St. Lawrence
Seaway and Thousand Island Cruise

Clayton, New York (1,000 Islands)

The Thousand Islands Museum
http://www.timuseum.org/
The Thousand Islands Museum houses special exhibits of world class muskies and hunting decoys from the past and present. The Thousand Islands Museum is celebrated its 40th Anniversary of preserving the past for the Thousand Islands Region in 2004

Antique Boat Museum
Over the 42 years since their first Antique Boat Show, the museum has built up an extraordinary collection of more than 250 watercraft, 65 inboard engines, 138 outboard motors and approximately 3000 smaller artifacts, together with significant archival holdings of pleasure-boating-related material. You can experience thundering down the St. Lawrence River in a gleaming mahogany triple-cockpit runabout. Every hour on the hour through the summer their boat ride departs for a thrilling 45-minute run through the islands. Register for a ride in the triple-cockpit runabout at the Admissions desk when you arrive.

The Handweaving museum and Arts Center
http://www.hm-ac.org/
The Handweaving Museum specializes in 20th-century hand-woven fabrics, coverlets, study notebooks, old tools, implements and looms. They encourage weavers to use the extensive resources they have available from lifelong collections of well-known weavers such as Berta Frey, Theo Moorman, Mary Snyder, and many others. The library includes books on weaving, spinning, dyeing, surface designing and textile history. The many study notebooks offer original manuscript drafts, patterns, tie-ups, treadling guides and color studies. The Museum Gift Shop sells original art works, prints, jewelry, fiber art, pottery and carefully selected items from regional artists.

Boldt Castle
www.boldtcastle.com/history.html
At the turn-of-the-century, George C. Boldt, millionaire proprietor of the world famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, set out to build a full size rhineland castle in Alexandria Bay, on picturesque Heart Island. The grandiose structure was to be a display of his love for his wife, Louise.