Season winding down

Late October and it is time to start removing the small craft buoys throughout the Great Lakes. This week, it was Lake St. Clair's turn. As the lake it quite shallow, except for the main shipping channel running through it, the work had to be done by our work barge while we waited in the channel for its return.

It took a full day to lift the many buoys and anchors from the Thames River and Mitchell's Bay, and then transit back to the ship. The barge made it back to the ship just as the sun was setting. The reflective tape that is used to help boaters identify the buoys at night shows up extremely well in the camera's flash.

As we finished up unloading the barge and putting the barge on deck, we waited our turn for a ship to pass heading down the lake and followed him towards our dock in Windsor.