August 9th, 2012 Thursday
Inside the locks.
Locks almost full and ready to move through, ahead on the right is a good sized freighter waiting to move into the locks.
This is the freighter Chestnut hauling iron ore pellets, we saw it our our return to the docks as it was about to leave or side heading east.
Another freighter heading into the locks as we are exiting..
Just looking up the river to the west.
The international bridge going from Sault Ste Marie Michigan to Sault Ste Marie Canada. Half way across the bridge but not shown in this picture a an American and a Canadian flag signifying the point to crossing.
This is a island that was created by diggings mineral out of the water which extends from here to Minnesota (the mineral that is). The island is now used as a place for a steel foundry owned by India and employing 3000 people. They make sheet steel in multitudes of grade and ship by freighter due to the weight of the rolls.
This is coming back through the Canadian locks with the the gates closed and ready to drop us the 21 feet to get back down to the river level. 
Locks almost empty
We arrived here at the campground around 12:30, the weather is much cooler and this makes for a nice change. We are at Soo Locks campground for the next 6 days and we have a pretty nice spot looking down a boat canal at the St Mary's river with our Rv backed up to it. Rates are only $27 a day and we have water and electric hookups. Pretty busy little campground and close to the Soo Locks boat tours. After arriving we walked to the end of the pier to look at the river and snapped a few pictures, the we ate lunch and layer down to take a nap, I succeeded but Deanna did not..
After waking up we decided it was time to go find a car wash to clean her car after the trip down that road to Sturgeon Valley campground. Well we got distracted and ended up taking the Soo Locks boat tour, it's about a 2 hour tour ( unlike the USS Minnow we made it back) and includes going through the locks from Lake Huron into what a little farther down the river is Lake Superior. The difference between the two was a 21 foot rise in the locks and took about 12 minutes.
Inside the locks. Locks almost full and ready to move through, ahead on the right is a good sized freighter waiting to move into the locks. This is the freighter Chestnut hauling iron ore pellets, we saw it our our return to the docks as it was about to leave or side heading east. Another freighter heading into the locks as we are exiting..Just looking up the river to the west. The international bridge going from Sault Ste Marie Michigan to Sault Ste Marie Canada. Half way across the bridge but not shown in this picture a an American and a Canadian flag signifying the point to crossing.This is a island that was created by diggings mineral out of the water which extends from here to Minnesota (the mineral that is). The island is now used as a place for a steel foundry owned by India and employing 3000 people. They make sheet steel in multitudes of grade and ship by freighter due to the weight of the rolls.This is coming back through the Canadian locks with the the gates closed and ready to drop us the 21 feet to get back down to the river level. Locks almost emptyHere is one of out campground and our Rv.
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