Weather: 58 degrees with 90% chance of rain by noon. We had breakfast at 7:30 am in hotel and left
for Sault Ste. Marie, MI at 8:30 where we took a boat ride through the SooLocks. The locks connect Lake Huron
with Lake Superior. Lake Huron is about
30 feet lower than Lake Superior so you use the locks to raise your boat to the
Lake Superior elevation or lower your boat if you are going from Lake Superior
to Lake Huron. I tried to take several
pictures to show the height of the boat as we were raised. The
tour took about 2.5 hours as it goes through the locks (both ways) under the
bridge than connects United States and Canada.
After the tour we drove the 55 miles back to Mackinac City where it was
raining. Since we had our matching
jackets from Mackinac Island we visited Mackinac Bridge museum and then went
shopping nearby. We headed back to hotel
for a couple of hours before heading to dinner at Darrow's for some Great Lakes
whitefish. Tomorrow we turn south
looking for lighthouses and quaint little towns along Lake Michigan.
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