Here is what River Rat offers http://www.riverrat.on.ca/rentals_models.asp Most places will rent about the same style of boats. I you want to see what the weather is like on the river, just goto http://www.marina.on.ca/live_cam.asp , I used this camera to log 'Wave The Flag" with pepperways permission and asking real nice at the marina. gives a rough idea as to conditions. I had not thought of what to hit, but at least a few of the "Islands" series and maybe 'Pirates". Binrat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hoover" <mlehotay@xxxxxxx> To: <kag@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 1:29 PM Subject: [kag] Re: River Caching Tour > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Lloyd Baker wrote: > > > Just a quick question in regards to the tour. If we hit a cache on the > > American side, do we have to report to customs? I would also suggest to > > everyone to bring a birth certificate and 2 pieces of photo ID, just in > > case. > > I know when Root and I once went to Boldt Castle, there was a customs > booth at the dock. I don't know what the procedure is when you want to > cross the border at a place with no official border crossing. Somebody > posted a log once that seems to indicate there are border guards in boats > who patrol the 1000 islands. > http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=0f5535ea-2e3b-45a4-899b-5c08ca3b6d99 > > You must be thinking about going to Something about Mary. Ideally, I would > like to visit all the caches too. But I'm worried about running out of > gas. Team Kuebbing did that once: > http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=d355dfbe-69e8-48db-9a1e-9dfdda9db88b > > Does anybody know the range of the kinds of boats we will be renting? > > For convenience, I have made a list of all the island caches, sorted by > distance from Bluff Park. I would like to hit the first 4, but may be > satisfied with only the first two. The last 4 are very far away from > Gananoque, but I included them for completeness. > > Islands III http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCGJ9E > Pirates http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCGEV8 > Islands Deux http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCGFVM > Merlin http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCFC3 > Mary http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC6D63 > Islands 1 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCGCKF > Cedar http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCHVAM > NAMSOIL http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCA87 > Within Range http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC6C7F > Main Duck http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC840F > > --Hoover > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Kingston Area Geocachers mailing list > //www.freelists.org/webpage/kag ------------------------------------------------------------ Kingston Area Geocachers mailing list //www.freelists.org/webpage/kag