Standing in the middle of the St. Clair River!

[Jimmy Buoy]

Here's a video I took last week of an area of the St. Clair River called the St. Clair Middle Ground. It is basically a submerged island right next to the shipping channel. It has a very steep drop off on either side of the area, so it is unique to stand in such shallow water while in the middle of a major river, watching lake freighters pass by within such close proximity.

 

[mrclark321]

Cool video Jim, we anchored there last year but found the current a little strong for our liking, I was taking pictures the other night at Bridgeview and did a three shot pano to stitch the photo panning from left to right, when I got home and loaded the pics on my computer I noticed that from picture one to picture two the boats dropped almost a foot from the freighter under the bridge down the river. Just goes to show how nice it is to have floating docks.

 

[Gofirstclass]

Cool video. That's why NOAA makes charts. IF we didn't have charts we'd have lots more boats grounding.

 

[D-Sill-D]

That's interesting....the displacement from those ships is pretty amazing...