Homes, Boathouses and Other Abodes

We saw all kinds of homes and boathouses--and other abodes--while on the waterways. Here are some of them.

Bolt Castle in the Thousand Islands, eastern Lake Ontario/St Lawrence Seaway


Roof trim on Bolt Castle

Bolt Castle Boathouse



Dave and Polly Brown’s home on Snowshoe Bay, Henderson Harbor, NY

Prince George Hotel, Kingston, Ontario (Kingston Ontario 23

Teepee along the Trent-Severn

Cottage built on a smidgen of rock. We actually saw lots of cottages built on such small bits of rock we were astounded. In the Thousand Islands if the rock has a tree on it and vegetation, it is considered an island, no matter how small.

Nifty little home and boathouse

Lighthouse at Point au Baril, Ontario, Canada

Homes on Mackinac Island

Developer Earl Young's great gift to Charlevoix, Michigan, was a group of fairy tale mushroom houses that he built around the Boulder Park neighborhood near the city's lakefront starting in 1918. Here are two of his--they made us think of hobbit houses. The third picture is of a modern-day "knockoff" and of much grander scale, and definitely not a hobbit house.