My First Saltie of the Season

 I headed down to Marine City.  I was hoping to catch the Kaye Barker so I could get her with my regular camera.  I dallied too long, so I wasn't able to catch her.

But I was able to catch this ship even though I wasn't sure if I could.

She was heading from Cleveland.

She was heading to Portage.

I'm not sure what she is carrying though.

I do know she's been to the Lakes a few times.

One more shot before calling it a day.

Catching the Isadora

 I was hoping to catch more ships but as I said in the last post, I passed two of them on the way to catch the Barker.  After getting pictures of the Barker, I headed back to Port Huron.  The one ship was already well onto Lake Huron.  The other was at the mouth of the river, so I knew I wasn't going to catch her.

The Isadora was about an hour out when I arrived at the park.

I'm not sure where she was heading down from because that is gone from Marine Traffic.  It currently shows her origin port as Port Colborne but I know that is not correct.

She is heading up to Les Ecoumins which is up in the mouth of the St Lawrence River.

I am guessing, she is going to pick up something there before heading back to Poland.

At any rate, I think it's cool when I see salties.

For the most part, it seems like Polish Steamship takes care of their ships.

I just see the usual wharf scraping but they are usually painted pretty well.

She makes the turn for the rest of the St Clair River.

And then I switched to my drone.

It was a little windy out but the sun was pretty nice.  I didn't realize this was proceeding today's weather.

I wish I would have gotten my drone a little higher but it was yelling at me.

A beam shot.

And she continues on.

According to Marine Traffic, she will be at her destination on Wednesday.  If she left from Duluth, that means her trip is about 5 days long.  If she is going to her foreign port, that is roughly 2 weeks.

Ending With the Isadora

The next ship was docked down from the Westcott but she was another that we didn't get to greet.

 I'm not sure if she was unloading or loading steel coils but many ships will use this dock.

 I know that she has appeared on this blog before.  She is one of a few ships that is owned by the Polish Steamship Company.

 Like I said, it was a pretty nice day for a boat ride.

 If you look to the right, you can see some damage from a recent fire.

 One more shot of the docks.

 While I was on the Randolph, the Isadora started to head out.  I don't think the Westcott needed to deliver a pilot to her because he could just hop on from the dock.

 Like I said, she's a pretty nice looking boat.

 As I was taking pictures, I noticed her reflection in the window of the Randolph and liked the look.

 Looking down the length of the Randolph.

 She passes under the bridge.

 Probably a view I wont get again.

And one more shot of her.

The Isadora at Sunset

I decided that I wanted a picture of a ship in the Locks.

 The ship in question was the Isadora and she's owned by the Polish Steamship Company.

 I've seen quite a few of their ships before and she is very similar to the rest of them.  She is 655 feet long and has a 77 foot beam.  This gives her a carrying capacity of almost 35,000 tons.

 She is likely hauling grain from Thunder Bay to overseas, but I'm not sure where.

 With a little bit of lighting, she's not a bad looking ship.

 I kind of liked this effect.

And one more shot of her.