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|  Message 127  |
|  Mike Powell to ROB MCCART  |
|  Checking in  |
|  06 Jan 22 16:31:00  |
 TZUTC: -0500 MSGID: 118.canada@1:2320/105 263c9fa0 REPLY: 115.canada@1:2320/105 263c50cc PID: Synchronet 3.18c-Linux master/dcb003099 Dec 31 2020 GCC 7.5.0 TID: SBBSecho 3.12-Linux master/dcb003099 Dec 31 2020 GCC 7.5.0 BBSID: CAPCITY2 CHRS: ASCII 1 > 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 * SLMR 2.1a * How can I escape this irresistable grasp? --- SBBSecho 3.12-Linux * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) SEEN-BY: 15/0 105/81 106/201 129/305 153/7715 229/426 428 664 700 SEEN-BY: 282/1038 292/854 301/1 320/219 322/757 396/45 712/848 2320/0 SEEN-BY: 2320/105 PATH: 2320/105 229/426 |
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