Sleeping Whale Island, sometimes also called Whale Rock, is a familiar sight for boaters.
Indian folklore, handed down for many generations, told of a species of fresh water whale that once inhabited numerous lakes in the north country.
Sleeping Whale Island gets its destinctive name from this legend. The story that I’ve always heard and which is corraborated in the book, Stories of Lake George, Fact and Fancy, by Thomas Reeves Lord is that the Indians told that the only proof left that these whales existed was through enormous casts where one could see their shape.
Thus the name Sleeping Whale Island. Can you see it?