Location:
Sault Saint Marie, Ontario, Canada
Big Chute Marine Railway is a boat lift at lock 44 of the Trent-Severn Canal in Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in individual cradles over a change of height of about 60 feet. It is the only marine railway (or canal inclined plane) of its kind in North America still in use. If you look closely at the photo you'll notice that there are two sets of tracks – one for the front wheels and one for the back. When the car goes down hill, the inside tracks descend more quickly than the outside tracks, keeping the car with it's contents level. Very cool engineering.
Georgian
Bay is breathtakingly beautiful. The scenery is much like Maine,
including wild blueberries, only without the salt water and the 10
foot tide. These pictures are from Killarney Provincial Park.
Sault
Ste Marie is on the border of US & Canada. We decided to drop
back down into the US for our journey west as fuel in Canada is more
expensive than in the US. We walked the boardwalk to the smaller of
the locks, on the Canadian side. Then we were stuck in traffic on
the bridge so got to see an aerial view of the massive lock system on
the US side. The great Lakes is an amazingly huge commercial
waterway.
As
you can see, we're really enjoyed taking the back roads – you see
so much more interesting stuff that you miss on the main highways.
Technically the moose is a Maine picture as Julie saw her first live
moose while driving through Maine. We weren't fast enough to take a
picture so this is just to memorialize the occasion. It's included
here as it was actually taken in Sault Ste Marie.
At
the border crossing back into the US, the officer confiscated almost
all of our vegetables. Once back on the US side we filled up the
petrol tank and stocked back up on veggies.
