We did a Soo Lock tour this morning on the St. Mary River. We past a huge hydro-electric plant built in 1902. It's still producing power, just not as much. There are ships & barges along the way. You may see the barge Menomonee which just dropped off a load of sand for the building/expanding of the Poe locks on the American side. Then it went to into the lake to turn around to go through the locks.
One our way back we went along the Canadian side. There was a steel plant, it's the 2nd largest in Canada. We came back through the Canadian locks, they are smaller and for recreational use.
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After lunch we drove to Mackinaw City and toured Colonial Michilimackinac. It is a living exhibit with historians dressed as people from the time from 1700 & 1800, relaying info about life at the fort. It was mainly for the fur trade, not a military fort, although the military was there to help keep order. It was very interesting. Lots of history. This was the predecessor to Fort Mackinaw, on Mackinac Island, because it was relocated. That's tomorrow's visit.
The Mackinac Bridge, "Mighty Mac", is ~5 miles long and opened Nov 1, 1957. It costs $4 each way to cross the bridge, you pay on the U.P. side. The longest suspension bridge in the western hemisphere.
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