Lake Freighter at Sarnia, Canada

Sitting under the Bluewater Bridge(s) eating hot chips and watching the lake freighters go by is long time a Sarnia tradition. These ships are unique to the Great Lakes

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• great
• lake
• freighter
• sarnia
• bluewater
• bridge

[3mate1]

Ummm, 1 long and 2 short is a salute.

5 short is the danger Signal, which is what they would have sounded if there were pleasure craft in the way... which does happen alot on that turn under the Blue Water Bridge

1 whistle is a port to port pass, and 2 whistles is a starboard to starboard pass.

Great Video, just went through there 2 days ago on my ship. Keep making them!

[linuxluver]

3mate1: Thanks. I have a few more on video I'll post when I get / make the time. :-)

[trainfreak7745]

@linuxluver are you from a lake state

[linuxluver]

@trainfreak7745 Hi - I'm originally from Sarnia, in Ontario. You might call that the "Canadian lake state" as I think all of Canada's great lake shoreline is within the province of Ontario. Ontario is pretty big.

Along the US border, it runs from upstate New York (to just east of Massena) to northwestern Minnesota at Lake of the Woods....about 100 miles short of reaching North Dakota. :-)

[trainfreak7745]

@linuxluver ookk haha and i know how big Ontario is im from Michigan the suburbs of Detroit and Michigan is the U.S.'s lake state

[linuxluver]

@trainfreak7745 My problem in answering was that Canada doesn't have states. It has provinces. So technically.....no, I don't. :-)

[linuxluver]

@trainfreak7745 Quick comparison. Ontario is 415,598 square miles. Texas is 268,581 square miles. So Ontario is about 1.5 times the size of Texas and about 2/3's the size of Alaska (663, 268 square miles).

[trainfreak7745]

@linuxluver so ill take that as a yes and i meant o you live in a state that borders a great lake

[canadiantimberwolf1]

Also take a trip up Michigan State over The Straits Of the Mackinaw and up too The Soo, while there, visit the SS Valley Camp which is a museum ship in the area.

[canadiantimberwolf1]

Nice video and they give the Masters Salute or Captain's Salute all over the Great Lakes...I recommend a trip too the Welland Canal and Niagara Falls as well..