Got up this morning and it was 47 degrees outside, 61 degrees in the coach. Great temperatures.
We arrived at the Soo Locks Campground at 1 PM. Since leaving MO we have put 1,558 miles on the coach. I think every site, including those up next to the street, is full tonight.
The view out the front window from our site. The land on the far side of the St. Marys river is Canada.
There are only 4 or 5 class A coaches at the campground. It is an older campground and the water and electricity (no sewer) are set up for back in units (trailers or 5th wheels). Kathy thought I was going to have her in the water as I kept telling her "pull further ahead". Pulling this close to the water was the only way I had enough cable to make the connection to 50 amp shore power. I probably need to buy a 15-20' 50 amp extension cord for future similar situations.
Just as we pulled in Kathy took a photo of a tug and a barge with a crane on it, leaving the facility next door to the campground.
When we were here last fall I wrote about the Ojibwa, a tender, that comes out of the same next door facility. It is headed downstream, back to the dock, in the photo below.
It was followed by the freighter in the photo below. I think it had just taken a pallet of goods out to the freighter. The guy at the site next to ours used to know the captain of one of the freighters. Some years ago he got to ride with the Ojibwa crew as they delivered a pallet of goods to one of the freighters. He said that when a freighter leaves the Duluth area they send a supply list to the company next door. He has been in their warehouse. He said it had everything from nuts and bolts to bananas in it. It takes about 24 hours for the freighter to get here and clear the locks. The Ojibwa pulls up along side the freighter and hoists a pallet up on the deckl soon after it leaves the locks.
Below is an enlarged photo of the back of the freighter. The tug and barge with a crane is along side the freighter as it moves down the river. I couldn't see what it was doing. Before it was out of sight the tug/barge peeled away and came back to the dock next door.
There is a place across the rive that must work on float plants. They have a ramp that allows planes to taxi out of, or in to, the water. Several years ago we saw lots of planes taking off and landing but never saw one the last time we were here. I did get to see one take off this afternoon.
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