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POTW: The Ice Cream Dock

Ice-Cream

Sept 12, 2024

Michael Alton built this floating ice-cream shack in his New Brunswick driveway last winter out of mostly recycled materials. He then craned it into the water for the big opening. Everything on board the shack is run by solar and battery power

  “I wanted to make it look like, you know, like a baseball … snack shack when you were a kid, you know, where you’d go to get a freezie or ice cream at the game,” said Alton.

In a report from theCBC’s Hannah Rudderham, Alton said he didn’t advertise at first, and just started on weekends, but momentum quickly picked up and the family-run affair moved to seven days a week.”All of a sudden, now we have, you know, a community of 5,000 people, and it’s been nothing but positivity, which is such a breath of fresh air when it comes to the internet,” he said.


Alton said he saw hundreds of people on a Saturday, some coming with their own boats and others utilizing the kayaks, paddle boards, canoes and floaties that he sets up on the nearby beach each day.

Ice Cream Dock is located on the Rte 845 and Old Reach Road in Kingston, NB (45.5148200, -66.0028815)

What did you capture on your camera this summer.  Time to send in your Photo of the Week images for our off-season catalog. Anything boat related – kids, ports, pets, boat, crazy signs – you pick.  Send them along to onboard@kerrwil.com and please put POTW in the subject line.  We look forward to sharing your Photo of the Week.

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