Taken from Rotary Park in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan this is the James R Barker from the Interlake Steamship Company downbound after locking through with a HUGE #BarkerBark accompanied by an incredible echo!
You can grab a burger at Clyde’s Drive-In and park by the Sugar Island ferry dock or drive over to Rotary Island and see the freighters go by. They are very close, maybe 50 yards or less.
@centexan We just went to Duluth Harbor two weeks ago to see the Barker leaving and the Paul R Tragurtha come in. As well as several other big ships. It was the trip of a lifetime.
It is so worth it! I just heard it come into Duluth a few weeks ago and it was one of the best sounds I have ever heard. The echo afterwards is amazing too.
So happy to find you here on you tube Andrea.!! Liked and subscribed , as I've eliminated f/b and their censorship and political b/s from my life, yep, lost touch with many people in the process, but sanity is more important.!!
So awesome. I’m on the shore of Lake Michigan as I type this marveling at the inland seas that I’ve been fortunate enough to have seen all five H.O.M.E.S never living more than a 10 minute walk from L. Ontario in Toronto and L. Michigan in Chicago. I use to take this for granted because I have seen them and these vessels my entire life including countless crossings on the car carrier of the Chi-Chimaun to Manitoulin Island from Tobermory. It’s just crazy how these go across the ocean into these inland seas we know is the great lakes, which are a watershed to all the other lakes east of the Mississippi that are essentially there because of the Great Lakes. I don’t fully understand it, I mean, I get the locks, I get the cargo ships, but as far as the dangers go, that have captains prefer to be in the ocean rather than the Great Lakes and other geological aspects I’m only learning now after 42 years of looking at them from the top of my street and nearly being killed by them. If those lakes are strong enough to bring down one of those vessels like the Edmund Fitzgerald, imagine what they can do to you. I know better than to think I can contend with nature, well over the last 15 years. Great video of that monster of a ship!
I don' think these ships ever go into the ocean. these are interlake ships, fresh water only, and I believe they are to big to fit through the st lawrence sea way. I may be wrong, but I know ship lovers call the ocean vessels coming into duluth "salties". god bless.
When I was a kid, my brother and I were in Quebec right on the St. Lawrence River and we seen one of the ships maybe a mile or two ahead of where we were swimming in a very narrow part of the river so my Dad got us out of the water and stood at the edge of the river as it’s passing us and the captain comes out on the deck and starts waving at us along with all the crew. It looks like that ship exactly like that shit but I can’t say for sure whether it was or wasn’t, that was in 91 right before Kriss Kross had us totally crossed out but it wouldn’t be that far of a stretch to think that I’ve seen some of these famous ships considering I spent my entire life on the Great Lakes. You never know! #greatlakeskids 🙏
We get some 600-650 foot car haulers up the Columbia from Portland on through southwest Washington. Always interesting to see them pull the water in and flood it back as they pass, at least that happens here. No horn shows for us though!
