Monday, September 25, 2006

Land HO!!!! Captain

A post for Jennilyn's "Uncle David". D.A.B Walker is a retired ship captain who has travelled the world. Having now travelled the St. Lawrence myself as did David back in the day, I am hoping to give him a different view.



This port is located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence jsut east of Sept-Iles, Quebec. The name of it is Port Cartier. I see a few ships are waiting offshore to pick up their load.



These two ports are located near Sept-Iles. There is one more deep water port right on the edge of the town. For a history lesson copy and paste this site.

http://www.portsi.com/eg/historique.htm

Apparently 23 million tonnes of cargo are handled out of Sept-Iles every year. Alumina, Aluminum, Coke Breeze and Limestone are moved but mainly Iron Ore.



Back to Montreal...........this is a set of locks on the western end of Lac St. Louis. If you click on the photo you can get a better view. There is a ship just going through.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

David will relate to these pictures, can you imagine battling the Atlantic for 10 days, in fierce storms, remnants of hurricanes, getting to port and the ship could be loaded/unloaded with iron ore and be on its way again in 5 hours. Back across the angry ocean with hardly any time to pick up supplies etc. Let alone set foot on land......those sailors were tough! Being Captain helped a little I am sure!

3:21 AM, September 27, 2006  

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