It’s the last week in Canada, people. Let’s make the most of it!
Anchors-up brought a lovely sunrise, and lots of weeds on the anchor. Which we now don't mind so much, thinking that weeds=mud=not rock=good holding.
There was no one on the water but us - and a couple of light houses. The second one is a bit rundown, maybe a good fixer-upper, if you are looking...
It was an overcast day and these cormorants are sitting around gossiping about how the weather was 'back in the day'. Or so I imagine...
We moved out of Canadian waters into the US - as long as we don't anchor or get off the boat we don't need to call immigration. The destination for today was The Soo - Sault Ste Marie. There is a US side, with 4 giant commercial locks, and a Canadian side with 1small recreational boat lock. We rounded the corner into The Soo to find that we weren't the only ones out on the water after all! On the right you see yet another Viking cruise ship (cruise ships are everywhere, and it's NOT progress, if you ask me), and to the left a small tour boat and a big freighter locking through together. These boats are all down-bound (being locked down) from the higher water of Lake Superior. We had fun taking pictures of the passengers taking pictures of us.
We had intended to spend 3 days on Lake Superior, stopping at Whitefish Point to see the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. But the weather is iffy, and Lake Superior is no laughing matter (remember the Edmund Fitzgerald). The other Lakes are big, but it is HUGE, and has few places to hide from weather. So we decided just to poke our noses out into it today, and call that good. The lock tenders were adorable - and didn't mind that they would have to lock us back through an hour later!
The outskirts of The Soo, leading to Lake Superior, is a hell-scape of industry. But we pride ourselves on keeping it real for our readers; the good, the bad and the ugly. Our journalistic standards require that we share it with you:
I may have mentioned it was a gloomy day..... After an hour of cruising, this is all we could see at the entrance to Lake Superior. I THINK that's the lake? It's possible the earth just drops away there?? Anyway, the map said we were in Lake Superior so we called it!
We had to get all nostalgic on our way through our last Canadian lock. The guys chatted us up like old friends, and we locked through with a small tour boat so we REALLY got to be the center of attention. I'm proud of us - we have done almost every lock in eastern Canada, and lived to tell the tale!
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| Last door. |
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| Last time Rick's balls kiss a Canadian lock wall. |
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| A LOT of people waving and filming. And I didn't even get flustered and make a mistake!! |
Six hours is a long day of driving for us (we better harden up before the Mississippi River), and we had a quick nap after tying up at the Roberta Bondar Marina. When we woke up it was as if to a completely different day. The sky was bright blue and the sun was out! We walked around for a bit, to get oriented for tomorrow's adventure (you will have to wait and see), and picked up Indian food for dinner.
We've started to watch Queen Charlotte on Netflix, the pre-quel to Bridgerton. Great fluff.... We had to take a quick break when the sun went down. It was a grand sunset, but the camera is (for some reason) exaggerating and making it way more dramatic than it really was. ( I guess that's the kind of thing I do too, with stories....) I'll have to learn more about lighting...
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