Soo Locks

The Soo locks were pretty impressive – although the ones on the US side are much larger, being able to accommodate the massive lake freighters. We saw some lakers moving through today - the lake freighters are longer than ocean freighters, since they do not have to withstand such huge storms. Along those lines, we passed a viewpoint the other day where you could view the spot where the Edmund Fitzgerald went down nearly 30 years ago. And yes, I have had the song stuck in my head ever since. Oh well, it has finally displaced "Helpless" by Neil Young (you know the first line? "There is a town in north Ontario...")