07/04/17 - On 6/30, I did some chores in the RV, walked to the office to get some change for a birthday card and asked a little bit about the cruise and the train ride and was told that the cruise was good but the train ride did a little bit of Lake Superior but the majority of the ride went along residential back yards and that did not sound very interesting.

7/1, I made the reservation for the two hour cruise on Lake Superior for Monday 7/3 since it would be a little warmer day.

7/3, I drove to downtown Duluth to the water front for the cruise that was scheduled at 2 25pm.
The cruise was full but I did get to sit on the top deck.  It was a three tier boat.  It was very interesting but most of the trip was around the bay area.  We did have to go under a lift bridge which was interesting.  We cruised out on Lake Superior and saw at less three huge cargo ships that were docked out there to wait for the signal to come into the dock to get loaded.  One of they had been there already for 17 hours and still waiting.  We then turned around and sailed back the other way to learn about all the loading docks that were there.  One of them was General Mills, a huge coal area and the last one we saw was loading iron.  I am glad I had that experience.  I was trying to take a picture of the loading but my phone camera decided not to respond.  I stopped off at a Verizon store on the way back to the RV to find out what in the world went wrong to learn that if the phone and camera is exposed to direct sunlight for a while, it will shut down.  What a mess.  Now I have no picture of the loading.

                                            The lift bridge that is up as we passed under it