Neurotech - the weblog of Luke Reeves

I was going to start by posting some pictures of the first part of my “vacation” in Niagara Falls but I can’t find them. So I’ll skip right to Sault Ste. Marie and Iron Bridge.

This is a shot of coming in by the airport in the Sault:

One of the places we checked out in the Sault was an old park near the locks and the steel mill. The first shot is off the steel mill. The second here is a railroad bridge that used to rotate to allow trains to cross over the locks, and then rotate back to let the ships through. It’s been unused for quite some time, and apparently even the Canadian portion of the locks has been busted for about a year. All the ships have been using the American locks instead:

I missed pictures of this construction project though outside of the Sault - there’s a massive bypass being built north of the city so that highway 17 can skip the local traffic altogether.

Later on in Iron Bridge we took our boat and my uncle’s boat out on the river and checked some shit out. Look at this here nature!

You can actually see a family of ducks here:

We then murdered and devoured them. Just kidding.

This next photo is “the island”. This place was great. A bunch of us (teenagers) would get our parents to drop us off upriver in canoes and we’d just kinda float and paddle until here, set up camp and sorta party. It of course never got out of hand since several hours later we had to paddle our asses out of there:

On our way to the island we sometimes stopped at this very sandbar. I wanted to write SOS in stones but lacked the energy:

The next few are the Red Rock dam. We used to come out here as teenagers too to party. Once we locked ourselves out of the fucking car (in the winter) and none other than the great Roberto S. ran the several kilometers back to town to find the only locksmith:

Also there’s a bunch of other local pictures I took that I have to track down. I think Chie moved a batch to her computer already, but if I find them I’ll post them.

Oh and of course the most important part of the trip - the goddamned dog!: