[Magdalen] Snowing now

Judy Fleener fleenerj at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 15:03:18 UTC 2014


The boat for our trip through the Soo Locks was not large.  It was dwarfed
by the 1000 ft ore boats headed into Lake Michigan and Lake Huron from Lake
Superior.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> On 02/12/2014 14:49, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> One of the neat parts of our Russian trip last summer was going through
>> the
>> locks.  It was just fascinating.
>>
>
> Locks certainly are fascinating, particularly if you are on a large boat.
> When Joan and I were in Vienna we took a trip on the (not blue) Danube
> which involved going through one of the big locks.  It was amusing to see a
> little river cruiser that came in behind us dwarfed by the trip boat we
> were on.  Those locks are big as they need to accommodate the cargo ships
> that use the river.
>
> Roger
>



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Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan


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