Area 2 extends from Jackstraw Lane to the hamlet of Ivy Lea. It encompasses Landon's Bay, Fitzsimmons Mountain and the Navy Group of islands.
Landon's Bay is named after Oliver Landon, a United Empire Loyalist, who was granted 200 acres of land in Upper Canada by proclamation of King George 111. His journey from Litchfield, Connecticut, was a challenging one. He set out on October 15, 1787, with a wagon and a team of horses. He traveled a route following the Black River in upper New York State, rafting his team and wagon across the river, and arrived at his property 21 days after setting out. He was one of the first Loyalists to clear land in the Thousand Islands.
Landon's Bay became an important outlet for the timber in the hinterland to the north. Kidd Road connected Charleston Lake at Outlet to Landon's Bay. Timber was shipped overland, rafted in the river and sent downstream to Quebec City. There it was shipped to Britain to feed the shipyards in the expanding British Empire.
The cliffs at Landon's Bay are spectacular, consisting of gneiss and pink granite. The ledges support a unique microclimate. Natives in the area used the cliffs as a canvas for their paintings. The view from the cliffs at Landon's Bay is breathtaking.
From this vantage point the Thousand Islands Bridge and the Navy Group of islands can be seen.
From an ecological perspective, this area provides an important corridor between the Adirondacks in the south to the Canadian Shield to the north. This corridor, known as the Frontenac Axis, is largely undeveloped, and contains three natural areas of provincial significance. Halstead's Creek (west of Landon's Bay), the Landon's Bay wetland and the vertical bayside cliff at the north end of Landon's Bay have been declared as significant by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Landon's Bay is the largest sheltered bay on the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence River. This, combined with the rugged topography, has led to the creation of a wide variety of wildlife habitats. These include marshes, streams, open fields, heavy forest cover and rock ridges. They are home to many regionally and provincially rare plant species such as pitch pine, Hudson Bay currant and the winged sumac. The area also provides habitat areas for several regionally and provincially significant animal species. The northern goshawk, least bittern, Caspian tern, osprey, black rat snake, five-lined skink, four-toed salamander and the olive hairstreak butterfly are all local residents. The bay itself is an important fish habitat, providing shallow, protected spawning, nursery and feeding areas for a variety of fish such as muskellunge, pike and both largemouth and smallmouth bass.