Thursday, September 28, 2006

Made it to Port Huron, MI yesderday afternoon. We had a day of hard boating done on Lake Huron with south winds gusting to 30 knots that stirred the lake to 3 - 5 foot choppy seas. Not only did we have choppy seas, but we got a thunder storm with lightening and hail just as we were approaching the Blue Water Bridge which funnels the Lake into St Claire River. As we were sailing under the bridge we met a northbound freighter which we gingerly kept to our port side. The current runs 4 knots under the bridge so we watched the heaping waves as we passed the frieghter and entered the St Claire River. When we go into to port we were too exhausted to enter a log into our blog.


A lake freighter passing as we were in the shipping channel approaching Port Huron

















Walked around town today and found a really interesting gallery of prints of great lake's ships by J. Clary. Had a long and interesting conversation with his father who runs the gallery about his son and also his experiences on an aircraft carrier in the far east during the Viet Nam War. Going to their website is very interesting: http://www.jclary.com/gallery00.html



A sample of Mr. Clay's work















Jabberwocky tied up on a small river to the west of the Saint Clair River. Sarina Ontario Canada is off in the distance across the river.

















Off to Detroit in the morning about 60 miles down river.