On our way here from Burlington, we sited the Bluff Point Lighthouse high on the clifts of Valcour Island. Placed in service in 1874, the Bluff Point Light was one of the last lighthouses to be manned on the lake. Its fifth-order Fresnel lens guided ships through the narrow passageway between the island and the New York shore for almost 60 years.
Valcour Island is where Benedict Arnold’s fleet engaged the British war ships coming down Lake Champlain in 1776. 
We are anchored in a secluded cove, Smuggler’s Cove, on Valcour Island. We trekked today around the state park that can only be reached by boat, and relished the quiet natural beauty of the island.
We are anchored in a secluded cove, Smuggler’s Cove, on Valcour Island. We trekked today around the state park that can only be reached by boat, and relished the quiet natural beauty of the island.
Tom broke the frond of a spruce tree
and let me smell the sweet scent of Christmas tree. We walked the soft trail lined with pine needles over the mossy tree roots along the way. Where the path was marshy, ranges had constructed rough hewn planks to raise the trail off the ground for easier passage way. 
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