Tuesday weather was awesome.
Not a big distance to travel today, which was good. We didn't have to be out of the Casino campground until 1PM and that worked well with only have to travel 20 miles to the Soo Locks Campground.
What didn't work well was what I found when hooking up. Don't know when I did it but somehow I managed to pinch the pig tail connecting the truck to the trailer. The brake and tail light wires were completely sheared. (I always check the trailer brakes when leaving a campground. I know they worked when we left Ishpeming.) The insulation on the power wire was nicked enough to see copper. I has some electrical connectors with me so after making a repair we were on our way. (I will buy a new pig tail and have it with me so that I can replace the damaged one when I get home, or before
We weren't even completely set up when we saw the first boat on the river, a tug. Soon after this one a freighter went by but I didn't get a photo of it.
After dark I was sitting in front of the window reading. It was so cool to watch the lights of freighters go by. I actually saw a westbound and an eastbound pass each other. It was dark enough that the only way you could see them was to watch the lights on the Canadian shore wink off and then back on as they passed by. The freighters have a lot of lights, but other than the cabin area the lights don't look that much difference than the lights along the Canadian shoreline.
We say the Objibwa (boat in the photo below) go by yesterday. This (Wed) morning it went by westbound and then, a half hour later, back eastbound. The crane on it looks like it may be used to lift pallets on and off its deck.
I blew up a section of the above photo. The speck on the right side of the photo is a float plane that landed on the Canadian side of the river. A half hour later it was taking off when I took this photo.
A half hour later I saw the first freighter of the day go by. I don't know how big this one is, but the ore freighters are 800-1,000 feet long.
Weather looks like it is going to be awesome again today. Yesterday I visited with our "neighbors". The guy on the east side is from the Grand Rapids, MI area. He has been coming up here for 35 years. The guy on the west side is from west coast of FL, midway between Tampa and Tallahassee. This is at least his 3rd trip up here. The last time he was up here he only spent a couple of days in Sault Ste. Marie and then they went west, out through the badlands, before heading back to FL. He (they?) liked the campground and this trip they are spending 9 days here before heading back to FL.
This is the last week in September and the campground is full, on a weekday. MI's UP is awesome!
Time to get out and have fun this Wed AM.
God is good, may He bless you and yours.
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