Back to the Great Coast . . .  BBC Elbe has since I took this photo gone to Duluth, and then headed back out toward the Gulf of St Lawrence.

Kaye E. Barker approaches and

recedes, an illusion of her usual self played by the magic of Huron.

At sunrise it’s an upbound G3 Marquis, off to load

grain, I’d wager.

And as we pass through Detroit, we have an opportunity to see a self-unloader at work.

But what surprised me the most was overhearing a conversation about Cason J Callaway being a son of Georgia.  I was skeptical, but

but it turns out he’s the namesake of this laker launched in 1952.

The textile magnate was also a board member at USS.

Taconite from Minnesota, perhaps, and headed

 

here.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.