August 26, 2008: Blind River, Ontario

Today we moved the boat to the most northern point of our entire trip. Blind River, a little town on the northern shore of Lake Huron was originally founded as a lumber town with a saw mill set up on the falls of the river. The old lumber mill site was right where we pulled into the marina, and there was still a huge stack of logs there. There was also a Museum to the Lumberjacks that Tom and I saw on our bike ride around the small town. We found a modern grocery store there and restocked our milk, bread, and Coke Zero, the important staples.

There was a nice three pier marina with many sailboats in residence. The marina had a community turbine windmill to produce electricity, which ran whenever the wind speed exceeded 15 miles an hour. They also had a large marine store which had a greater supply of snow mobiles than boating equipment. Apparently there is an ice bridge from here across Lake Huron to Michigan when the lake freezes solid.

Tonight we had an unexpected luxury. We could pick up American television, and got the local Michigan weather and news. We are almost home.