Bolt Castle

While in the islands we have to find a place to walk Brendan. Bella and Lexi have learnt how to use a pad of plastic which looks like grass. This picture is Mary and Joan on Endymion one of the park island. You use to be able to walk on the island, but someone found a plant which only grows here in Canada. The result was the parks department decided no one should see the remarkable plant and closed all but a tiny corner to humans.

In order to go back to The States we had to check in with US Customs. We decided to go to Bolt Castle and kill two birds with one stone. Because the castle has thousands of Canadian visitors it has Customs Officers on the Island. Their first job is to deal with the tour boats but if there is no boat they are equipped to handle real people.

Bolt Castle has a long history. the short story was Bolt was building The "cottage" for his wife and children. When the building was about 85% finished his wife died and he ordered work stopped. A maintance man stayed in the Boat House, which was large enough to handle cabin cruisiers and sail boats. It was not harmed while the 100 plus room home was largely destroyed by vandals.

It is now owned by the Ivy Lea Bridge. Half of the cost of going across the bridge is going towards restoring the island. I have some pictures but my battery died so not enough to do the restoration project justice.

Remember the Pictures above are of a cottage. Below is a picture of Alexandre Bay New York taken from the top floor of the Castle.