Hey - For you loop Blog fans that read this sequentially, my brother Jim just reminded me that I left out 2 days. So, I just added July 20 & 21 blog days that I had saved in my computer while we had no internet access. In my opinion, July 21st is worth seeing.

We're back in the USA today!

See the US flag on the martin's Point light? There were 3 nice lighthouses in the US waters of Lake Huron. We went from Thessalon, ON to St. Ignus, MI today, about 66 miles or so.

We passed 4 or 5 of these giant ore boats today on the Saint Mary's River which they take to get from Lake Superior to Lake Huron. Most of them seemed to be going East on Lake Huron, not under the bridge to Lake Michigan. Maybe they're going to Detroit?

We also passed Les Cheneaux Islands, where we went 2 years ago with Jay and Kay. They're very much like the North Channel, but the islands are absolutely covered with fancy summer homes instead of wilderness islands.

St. Ignus is right across from Macinac Island between, Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

We went past Macinac (above) and when we got into the marina at St. Ignus, we called US Customs to check into the United States. Customs told us they don't do any customs clearances in St. Ignus at all, so we had to fire up the boat again and go to Macinac Island where there is a videophone customs checkin point. In Canada, many town dock marinas had customs by phone. We checked into Canada a month ago in Brockville, ON on the St. Lawrence Seaway all by phone. I guess the USA is worried about terrorists checking in as they enter the country to make it easy for US citizens with passports, a US federal documented boat and a new prepaid 2007 US customs user fee decal. Luckily, it only took an hour to plane Nonchalance out to Macinac, check in and come back. Kathy figured that cost us about $50 in diesel fuel though.