St. Lawrence Locks

Today was a sea day, so we had an easy day of rest, relaxation, and great food. We are in the St. Lawrence Seaway, a waterway that traces and skirts the St. Lawrence River from Toronto to the Atlantic Ocean. Its 15 locks allow ocean-going vessels to navigate the 250 foot drop between the Great Lakes and the mouth of the river. One of the locks through which we passed today, the Eisenhower Lock, brought back my childhood memories of President Eisenhower and Canadian Prime Minister Harold Diefenbaker meeting here to open the seaway officially in 1959 after 5 years of construction. Since then every port on the Great Lakes from Duluth, Minnesota eastward has had access to the world’s oceans. The St. Lawrence Seaway has been an enormous boon to the economy of the American Midwest.

The trip has been simply idyllic. For supper tonight I had pumpkin soup with a maple cream sauce and duck a l’orange. Just before supper Glenda went to a class to help folk learn some of the hidden tricks available on their iPhone. What a lovely, leisurely day!En savoir plus