Day 22 – Monday, June 14, 2010
N – 46° 30.474’
W – 084° 20.155’
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Our trip to the US Customs and Border Protection office turned out to be informative but not necessary! We are back to business as usual which means it takes a little extra time to enter the US on our return but we save one hundred dollars by not investing in the NEXUS pass that we don’t need! Entering Canada was as easy as calling a customs person, answering a few questions like boat registration numbers, birth dates and home address. A CanPass number is issued which I wrote on a piece of paper and attached to the boats side window! DONE!!!!!
The morning was spent watching boats enter and leave the locks. We watched a 1,004 foot long carrier by 105 feet wide enter a lock 110 feet wide with out the help from a tug. That’s three and a third football fields long with 30 inches of clearance on both sides.
Around lunch time we asked a security guard where we could get
a good lunch and he recommended a small drive in, about a mile away. Five of us walked to the West Pier Drive-in for one huge surprise………..what a surprise when we entered the
small sparkling clean building that had limited seating of five stools total which we filled. When Kitty arrived via her van they found a wooden stool and squeezed it in for the six of us could have lunch together. The ladies were very busy flipping burgers and preparing other items that you would except to order in such a place. I can’t remember when I have had as good or as large a burger as I ordered. Quality, quantity and value are a hard combination to beat. I’m sure that when we return from Lake Superior and pass through the locks we’ll hike up the road to the diner, and savor another burger!
We walked back to the boat enjoying the continuous parade of
large ships moving both up bound and down bound no more than a stone throw from us. By 2:30 we had departed our marina and idled across the river to the Roberta Bondar marina, a Canadian marina which is beautiful.
Tomorrow we take the train trip to Agawa Canyon which leaves at 8 am and returns at 6 pm. We have reservations so there won’t be any surprises!
N – 46° 30.474’
W – 084° 20.155’
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Our trip to the US Customs and Border Protection office turned out to be informative but not necessary! We are back to business as usual which means it takes a little extra time to enter the US on our return but we save one hundred dollars by not investing in the NEXUS pass that we don’t need! Entering Canada was as easy as calling a customs person, answering a few questions like boat registration numbers, birth dates and home address. A CanPass number is issued which I wrote on a piece of paper and attached to the boats side window! DONE!!!!!
The morning was spent watching boats enter and leave the locks. We watched a 1,004 foot long carrier by 105 feet wide enter a lock 110 feet wide with out the help from a tug. That’s three and a third football fields long with 30 inches of clearance on both sides.
Around lunch time we asked a security guard where we could get
a good lunch and he recommended a small drive in, about a mile away. Five of us walked to the West Pier Drive-in for one huge surprise………..what a surprise when we entered the
small sparkling clean building that had limited seating of five stools total which we filled. When Kitty arrived via her van they found a wooden stool and squeezed it in for the six of us could have lunch together. The ladies were very busy flipping burgers and preparing other items that you would except to order in such a place. I can’t remember when I have had as good or as large a burger as I ordered. Quality, quantity and value are a hard combination to beat. I’m sure that when we return from Lake Superior and pass through the locks we’ll hike up the road to the diner, and savor another burger!
We walked back to the boat enjoying the continuous parade of
large ships moving both up bound and down bound no more than a stone throw from us. By 2:30 we had departed our marina and idled across the river to the Roberta Bondar marina, a Canadian marina which is beautiful.Tomorrow we take the train trip to Agawa Canyon which leaves at 8 am and returns at 6 pm. We have reservations so there won’t be any surprises!
