| The Big Apple, famous because of its apple pie.
Besides pie they seem to make lots of food with apples in it. |
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Nice to know where you are. Amsterdam is 5815 km far away. |
The entrance of Fort Henry.
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Fort Henry is a historic attraction, an outdoor military museum. |
| Fort Henry was the first line of defense in the
cold war between British North America and the United States of America. |
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The fort is rather large what you can see on this picture. Behind
every arch there are rooms like soldier rooms, officer rooms, the kitchen,
school classes, weapon rooms etc. |
| Fort Henry is not a 'static' museum. There are
'officers' everywhere who will tell you much about Fort Henry and how life in
the 19th century as a soldier was. |
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Although we don't wear the right outfit, this teacher officer
teaches us something about Fort Henry in a school class, just as the soldiers
were taught 150 years ago. |
| This is an officer's room, much more luxurious than a
soldiers room, where they had to sleep with several soldiers in the same room
in very tiny beds. |
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The
Island Queen, which takes us on a trip on the St. Lawrence River,
between several of the Thousand Islands. |
| Fort Henry seen from the water. It's situated on a
strategic place, at the highest point of land at the convergence of the St.
Lawrence River, Lake Ontario and the Rideau Canal. |
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An island is defined an island when it's at least 6
square meters big, lies at least 30 cm above water level and contains at least
two trees.
With these criteria in mind you can still count 1264 islands! |
| View of Kingston from the water. The brown/orange
building on the right is our hotel. |
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