Tuesday June 18, 2013 Day 17 0 miles/ 427 total miles

Our second day in the Soo.  The morning was spent with work, laundry and a trip to Walmart and the hardware store courtesy of Cody, one of the dockhands.  After stowing the groceries and laundry, we were off to lunch.

As you might imagine from the name, the decor is "early taxidermy"!  There are animals of all shapes and sizes everywhere.  And the whitefish Po Boy was darn good, too.



After lunch it was time to take in some of the local history.  Immediately next door to the marina is the freighter- turned- museum, Valley Camp. 




Early freighters had the pilot house forward.




The exhibits inside included a very complete hisory of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Although it seemed huge as we walked the decks and cargo holds, this ship is only about half the size of the

1000 footer we watched lock through last night.  These models show the Valley Camp (on the far left end) compared to the largest of today's freighters.

Next stop, the "Tower of History".  We're not sure about the hisory, but it definitely is a tower!  At 210 ft, it gave us an amazing view of the surrounding area.

Jan and I did a little shopping while the guys went back to the boats to work on "projects".  Then we did an appetizer supper and called it a night.  We want to get an early start tomorrow to lock through to Lake Superior and begin the next phase of our adventure.