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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - We were told that residents are proud of the purity of the Lake George water, and to see fishing on it supports that
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - This beach is called the 'Million Dollar Beach' because that's what it cost to bring in all the sand...
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - The tower of the former train station near the lake
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - The tower of the former train station
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - The ship we
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - The founder of the Lake George Steamboat Company. Many other achievements as well...
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Our 'chariot' so to speak for the two hour boat tour of the lake
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Not sure what these folks were doing, testing the water perhaps?
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Larry on our tour ship
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Lake George
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Just dabs of the colours we had been hoping to see
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Just a smidge of the colour we were hoping to see more of
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Fort William Henry, built by the British, and destroyed in the French and Indian War, 1754-1763
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Brass rails on our tour ship
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Ben with Lake George stretching out in the diatance behind him
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Ben on the Mohican
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - Autumn colours near Lake George
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - A very American Ring-billed Gull
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - This parking meter is for boats!
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George on foot, and by boat and car - The Lake George area was the setting for James Fenimor Cooper's classic 1826 novel, "The Last of the Mohicans"
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George by on foot, and by boat and car - the Lake George waterfront
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George by on foot, and by boat and car - Britain and France were in a global war against each other from 1754-1763. Britain won, but tried to recover the enormous expense through increased taxation which e
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George -Topside of our tour boat
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George - We stopped here for a coffee and a snack in Ticonderoga, on the north end of the lake
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George - The view from Prospect Mountain above the village (4)
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George - The view from Prospect Mountain above the village (1)
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George - The view from Prospect Mountain above the village
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George - The Sagamore Resort, one of the last grand hotels on the lake
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George - The access to the Sagamore Resort
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Day Four - Exploring Lake George - Our tour boat on a cruise
