Daylight on leg 10 saw us near the Ontario, Ohio, and Michigan border, where we met GL Ostrander pushing Integrity.
We pass the abandoned amusement park at Bois Blanc,
Canadian Coast Guard’s Caribou Isle,
and ferry Ste. Claire moving cars between the Amherstburg, ON and Bob-lo “island marina community.”
Here’s the channel looking south.
Furuholmen heads north to Sarnia,
and our vessel’s twin, Grande Caribe, meets up in Wyandotte.
Meanwhile traffic continues down bound–like Sam Laud and John D. Leitch.
This post closes out with a regular down in the sixth boro . . . Calusa Coast pushing Delaware.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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July 8, 2016 at 4:27 am
Nelson Brace
Well done Will!
July 8, 2016 at 12:14 pm
William Lafferty
You inadvertently included a vessel within your image of the old Bob-Lo (Bois Blanc) amusement park. That is the hull of the old canaller Queenston, built as the Lachinedoc by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., at Sunderland, UK, in 1927. Mustered out of extended government service during the war in 1947 it was bought by Colonial Steamships, Ltd., of Port Colborne and renamed Queenston. After the 1961 season had ended at Bob-Lo, the Bob-Lo Ferry Company brought the stripped hull of the Queenston to this site, sank it in place filled with aggregate, and turned it into an expanded landing for the Columbia and Ste. Claire. Given its pedigree as initially part of the fleet of Paterson Steamships, Ltd., the vessels of which had names ending in “doc” (for Dominion of Canada), local wags dubbed this incarnation of the ship, fittingly, “Boblodoc.”
July 8, 2016 at 1:24 pm
tugster
William–
I’m happy you pointed that out. It looked like a hull. I write this from Mackinac.