Port Stanley, ON – Windsor, ON

Port Stanley, City Dock – Windsor, ON, Riverside Marina – Sept 19, 2012

Winds are achangin’.  We have been watching weather several times a day.  It’s what you do when you are left to the wind Gods and Mother Nature.  There are some nasty storms coming in over the next few days.  Our goal is to head to Leamington and check weather once again to see the update. 

The winds are currently out of the south making for a bit of a beam swell.  Not too bad that it’s uncomfortable, just annoying.  Sunny skies as we watch the cliffs of Lake Erie disappear into the distance.  Not much happens on open waters other than a lot of squinting and wondering what we are missing on the shore.  It is still beautiful from afar.  The beam waves are hitting our port side.  We didn’t think much of it until Scott went down to the master stateroom and realized I had left our porthole open.  The laptop was now soaked. 

As we head to Leamington Scott checks on the weather up and coming.  Seems that there are storms rolling in.  We want to be off the lake and into the Detroit River before the storms or we will be waiting them out here at a marina on Lake Erie.  So we decide Windsor is the best bet.  Afterall, it is just in the confluence of the Detroit River and Lake Erie so even if weather does start we may still have a run to Sarnia, ON. 

We decide on Riverside Marina across from Peche Island.  Peche Island is where the acclaimed Hiram Walker (you know the guy that started the whiskey) decided to purchase and started to build a home there.  The home was never completed but the foundation and some of the grounds are still visible.  The island is now owned by the City of Windsor and has walking trails and a small passenger ferry available.  That is, of course, if you do not have a dingy. 

The weather stayed to our south so we enjoyed a cool evening on the deck with the mandatory sundowners.  Scott took apart the laptop at this point, pulled off the keyboard, stood it up and set up a fan trying to save the computer.  Crossing fingers that the entire laptop isn’t toast.