Spring is in the air

The upper Great Lakes are getting ready for the start of the shipping season and spring icebreaking, but around the Detroit River the winter icebreaking is almost over as warm temperatures and a relatively mild winter made for a light ice year.

Still, there was more ice this winter than the non-winter last year. 

The waters of Lake St. Clair flow down into the Detroit River bringing the melting ice down with it.

We brought this tug and barge down across Lake St. Clair to her berth south of the Ambassador bridge before tying up in Windsor across from our American icebreaking partners.