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To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Jan 06 2022 16:31:00

> That's a ways up North as well..

Yes, I was working my way back South after completing my circle tour of
Lake Superior.  The farthest north I have been to date was a curve in the
Trans-Canadian Highway, somewhere east of Nipigon, along the north shore of
the lake.

> Being on Georgian Bay also puts me on Lake
> Huron too but the area I'm in, I am surrounded by large islands which block
> the worst of the storm effects on the water, sort of like being on a lake
> that's a mile long and half a mile across, so I rarely see waves much higher
> than about 3 feet in stormy weather, but travelling just a little ways further
> out, and on a relatively mild day, I've run into waves 6 feet high, and I'm
> not a Big Boat guy. Mostly I've had smaller, open, sail boats and canoes.

I am not much of a boat guy, either, but I usually take at least one boat
trip while I am up around the lakes.  Odd enough, the two times I was on a
ferry ride, the lakes in question (Huron, Erie) were throwing fits those
days!  :)

> What can be interesting though is, being attached to a much larger body of
> water (G.B/Huron is about 23,000 sq miles), I have seen the water depth change
> by as much as 18 inches in less than an hour when a brisk breeze shifted.

Being on the second largest of the Great Lakes, I don't doubt it!

Mike


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