St. Ignace, St. Mary's River, Sault Ste. Marie

Leaving St. Ignace, we passed on the north side of Mackinac Island. You can see the Bridge in the background. This lighthouse marked shoal near the LeCheneaux Islands. While I knit, Bob was really getting into the routine and is able to multi-task---here he is enjoying a book while watching Otto.

We intended to stop at DeTour, but because we were there early, and the weather was good, we decided to head up the St. Mary's River and stay in Sault Ste. Marie for a night or two. Here we pass the DeTour lighthouse.

As we start up the St. Mary's River, we meet this laker.

And still another one.........

Here we pass DeTour village and marina.

There are many islands along the way...all pretty.

This is Lime Island (Canada side of the river). It is now a campground but during WWll it served as some kind of battle supply place

Further up the river, we saw these two tall ships. They are heading for Duluth. There's supposed to be a total of 6 making the trip.

Here we are passing the Pride of Baltimore. We learned later that the crew on these ships is all high school students who are given the opportunity to get out of their environment (often from a bad one) for 3 months in the summer to share other experiences.

Here we are approaching the Bounty.

Note the kids up on the yardarm working on the sails !

This was an interesting church on the Canadian side with the steps going down to the water..........

As we get nearer to the Soo, there was still another tall ship......

And still anothe one--this one was called the Europa

Finally, here was the last one we saw just before we went in to the marina.

There is also a boat which offers tours of Lake Superior shown docked on the Canadian side of the Soo.

All in all, it was a nice day. We saw more boats on the water today than we did in the past five days ! But it was good to get to land as it was getting pretty windy the last few miles of the river.

After dinner, we decided to walk to the park to see the musice we were hearing. It sounded like it was right next door...not so, it was about 10 blocks away through a construction zone. But it was worth the walk. The music in the park that evening featured "The Saline Fiddlers", a group of about 25 high school students near Ann Arbor, MI. They played blues, county, celtic, etc. They were excellent. Apparantly this kind of music program was offered in the public schools to increase interest. From all appearances, it looks pretty successful. If you'd like to know more, check out their website at www.salinefiddlers.com.

Plan is to stay here a couple of days, do laundr, etc and hope the weather will be nice to cross Whitefish Bay.