"Arny Krueger" wrote

Hey, I live in a community that prizes status
symbols - houses, cars, boats, degrees club
memberships. I get that.

Yes, I was in your neck of the woods, Grosse
Pointe Yacht Club for a wedding last year.

I guess they are upgrading the harbor.

The St. Clair River area seems like some
pretty boring boating. No open water for 15 miles
in either direction. Boats pace upriver and then
down river. The bikini-girls on the larger cruisers
were nice viewing. I passed a dive shop in the
area, how does he stay in business?


BTW Lake Superior is fairly turbid where the
shore is sandy, especially when the water is
stirred up by the weather. Especially true
where we hiked this fall between Grand Marais
and the Two Hearted River. We had a gale one
night.

The Two Hearted River is notorious for plagues
of black flies in the spring to mid summer.

"gale one night"... been there, on the Canadian
shore of Superior. Even with all the stakes tied
to the tent's storm cover the wind pushed the
tent walls inward. To noisy to sleep, can't walk
around because of all the sand in the wind and
it is to cold to be outside of a sleeping bag.
And unfortunately one has to urinate lot when
you are not moving around and the body
core temp is below optimal.

That's right up there with spending the better
part of 10 days camping in the rain on Superior
Eastern shoreline.


AFAIK the Saint Mary's river has rock bottom
and shore upstream by Superior where its
generally clear, but it gets more turbid as it
approaches Drummond Island and Lake Huron.

I've canoed the area between the Sault and
Neebish Island. Near the locks the bottom is
blasted rock and the channel is very narrow
in spots. Carriers pass with only a few feet
under the keel. Passed the loaded down-bound
Roger Blough (858' ) in such a channel.
28,400 bhp makes for an interesting Doppler
effect off the craggy rock bottom to the canoe's
bottom to mine.