Exploring the Islands, From Rustic to Refined

The Washington Post | June 5, 1994| | Copyright

How many islands are there in the five Great Lakes?

You will have to do the counting yourself, and you can start in the little Canadian vacation village of Parry Sound on Lake Huron, which promotes itself as the gateway to the 30,000 Islands region. Or, if you prefer a less ambitious beginning, head for New York's famous old summer resort area called Thousand Islands at the mouth of Lake Ontario.

Now, neither of these two scenic places boasts precisely this number of islands, but islands large, small and minuscule are so abundant there that the names seem entirely appropriate. They are ...

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