It's very common to find a tick on your body after a long day outdoors. Camping is no exception. It's very important to remove a tick properly and promptly to ensure that no unnecessary harm is done.
To avoid being targeted by ticks, dress in long clothing, wear tick repellent, avoid tall grasses and check yourself often. Unlike mosquitoes and other noisy bugs, ticks usually show up on your body undetected. These tiny parasites also crawl around for a while before actually latching on to bite, and again this 'bite' usually goes undetected. They often prefer a warm, cozy location on your body to nestle in. Be sure to check everywhere on your body (armpits, behind ears, back of knees, etc.) for these nearly invisible little critters.
Despite your best efforts to fend off ticks, these little pests often manage to find you anyway. That's why it's important to know how to deal with ticks if you find one on yourself or another camper. Some ticks carry febrile diseases such as Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that causes rash and flu-like symptoms, including fever, joint aches and fatigue. Risks are generally low if the tick is removed shortly after implantation, but they greatly increase if you wait more than 24 hours to remove it. So make sure to remove the tick as soon as possible after detection.
Upon discovering a tick that has already latched on to the skin, grab a pair of pointed-tippedtweezers. With the tweezers, grasp the tick's head by its mouth parts and tug gently until it lets go. Immediately clean the affected area with an antiseptic, and disinfect the tweezers as well.Keep the tick in a sealed container to bring to the doctor's office for testing.
DO NOT attempt to burn a tick off your body or smother it with petroleum jelly. These methods can actually increase your likelihood of developing an infection because they may cause the tick to release infected fluid into your bloodstream.
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Just a bit further north of the Glen Island group and on the east side of Lake George is an area called Red Rock Bay. Red Rock Bay is an area for camping, but is considered a cruiser site only. By this I mean that you must sleep on your boat at the dock, but you still have a picnic table, fire pit and outhouse. My favorite was Red Rock #15, located all the way to the back of the bay, which was perfect for swimming, fairly flat, deep, sunlit and very private. One of the great attributes of this site was that you were always protected from the winds and rough water. An added plus to this site was that you could take a short walk through the woods to one of Lake Georges many gems Paradise Bay and there you could swing from a rope into the water or just jump off the rocks into the water. Information provided by The Boathouse Bed & Breakfast, located on Lake George.]]>
The Narrow Island Group (not to be confused with the Narrows of the Glen Island Group) is located in the central part of Lake George, north of the Glen Island Group. The Narrow Island Group consists of the Mother Bunch of islands at the base of Black Mountain extending to Mallory Island off the eastern Silver Bay shoreline. Some of these islands are large enough to allow up to six people per campsite, but on some of the smaller islands, campers are restricted to only two or four per site. The Narrow Island Group is 7 miles north of Bolton. This is the quietest and most private of all the locations. The Narrow Island group is also ideal if you are launching a boat from Hague or Ticonderoga.
The first of the island groups are located at the southern basin of Lake George near Lake George Village. 