{"id":33,"date":"2021-09-20T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2024-02-18T18:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T18:55:46","slug":"detroit-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/20\/detroit-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Windsor, ON &#8211; Sarnia, ON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Windsor, ON, Riverside Marina \u2013 Sarnia ON, Sarnia Bay Marina &#8211; Sept 20, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The storms are coming but we do have a window to make the trek to Sarnia, ON.&nbsp; So glad we made the choice to not stay in Leamington, ON as the winds kicked up on Lake Erie and there was no way we would have left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We both really enjoy the Detroit River.&nbsp; Lots of open area, with the odd laker ship passing by, beautiful homes on both the US side and the Canadian side of the river.&nbsp; During this time we are very careful to not dip our keel into the US side for long, favouring the Canadian side of the River.&nbsp; We pass both Detroit with its tall towers and skyscrapers, the General Motors Headquarters standing front and centre and Windsor with its cute town atmosphere and of course the casino. &nbsp;Note that docking is not allowed on either city waterfront.&nbsp; It looks so inviting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traveling past the city waterfronts the remaining portion of the river is industrial, homes, parks and boardwalks.&nbsp; It\u2019s a quiet trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We noted the winds were picking up so as we approached Sarnia Bay Marina we made the choice to not get fuel and wait out the winds.&nbsp; Calling up Jeff, the harbourmaster, we ask for assistance getting in.&nbsp; We are greeted with 2 helping hands and new friends from the adjacent slip.&nbsp; The winds are from the south so they are pushing us into the dock.&nbsp; That helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarnia Bay Marina is a well kept marina with clean restrooms, laundry, power, water.&nbsp; It is a little out of the city so having bikes help.&nbsp; Jeff and the crew at the harbour office are the best.&nbsp; Always ready to accommodate the boaters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winds didn\u2019t subside for almost 4 days.&nbsp; So we were here longer than expected.&nbsp; Good to know we were in good hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON, Riverside Marina \u2013 Sarnia ON, Sarnia Bay Marina &#8211; Sept 20, 2021 The storms are coming but we do have a window to make the trek to Sarnia, ON.&nbsp; So glad we made the choice to not stay in Leamington, ON as the winds kicked up on Lake Erie and there was no <a href='https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/20\/detroit-river\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-loop-second","category-uncategorized","category-4-id","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}