Welland Canal

The ship I am on cruising around the Great Lakes is docked at Port Colborne, Ontario, which is at the entrance to the Welland Canal from Lake Erie. The Welland Canal connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and allows ships to bypass the rather inconvenient Niagara Falls. We are docked right in front of Bridge No. 21 of the Welland Canal, which has given me and some of the other passengers frequent entertainment in watching the bridge go up and down and large cargo ships enter and leave the canal. When you are on a ship less than 100 feet from a giant cargo ship, it just doesn’t seem possible that the giant cargo ship will fit in the canal or under the bridge, but of course it does. The below slide show is a collection of a series of photos I took from my cruise ship when the Algoma Buffalo entered the canal.