We ran all over the island, exploring every inch, and picking out the best "post-lunch-swim-spot", and choosing our picnic spot...
The island was purchased by the Upper Saranac Lake Association a number of years ago, and is open to public day-use...
We pulled in at a small notch on the northern side of the island where a previous owner had at one time built a dock (the same person also built a "shed" with beds/windows/stove/etc. before the APA caught up with him...this eventually resulted in the sale of the island to USLA)...
Our picnic spot was at the highest point of the island, so that we could see everything around us...Ben loves drinking out of my Camelbak hydration backpack...
He had his first-ever hot-dog sandwich, and loved it...mayo, ketchup, bread, and leftover hotdogs sliced lengthwise make what may be the best sandwich the world has ever known...
After we had finished out lunch, a couple of kids came over to the island from one of the nearby camps with their grandma, and played on the island with Ben...this girl's name was pronounced "Tone-uh" (I don't know how to spell it), and they raced all over the island together...she was only a year older than Ben, so they got a long very well...
We found this deer poop on the island during our wandering, which prompted Ben to wonder about how it got there, he decided that they either came over in the winter when there was ice or swam over for picnics like we did in our boat...I love my boy...
The boys, who were a couple of years older than Ben, started playing with bags from their snacks to catch the wind, which picked up a good deal during our 3 hour stay, and talked about kites and parachutes...we also got to watch a float-plane land on the lake between us and Dry Island, a camp/resort on a 12 acre island that allows people to enjoy the Adirondacks for only $24,000 per week...
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Your lunch looks good...but it's no spaghetti sauce sandwich.
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