Watching Ships Go Through Lock 3 of the Welland Canal at Saint Catharines, Canada

The Welland Canal connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.  Funding for the first ever canal in Canada was spurred by construction of the America's Erie Canal that linked New York City to Buffalo, and points west, in the early 1800s.  Canadians wanted to efficiently move people and goods in the Great Lakes Region and Canadian canal building began....

The Bro Alma from Singapore
enter Lock 3 from Lake Ontario
at Saint Catharines.

The yellow Cavotec devices on

 the far end of the lock hold the

ship in place.

Visitors watch ships enter
& leave the locks from a
viewing platform.






The ship just fits in the lock.  A fellow visitor told me that there's about one foot of space between the ship and each of the lock's walls.

There's a lot of pipes &

valves on this ship.

The lock's gates close

behind the ship. 

Everyone waits for the 

water level in the lock

to rise... 

The gates open...

... & the Alma Bro 

moves on toward

Lake Erie.

Here comes the Prosna,

out of Monrovia.

Spotters are on the

bow of the ship.

The cargo is loaded &

unloaded with the

tan structure.

Canadian & Liberian flags

fly above the super structure

of the ship.

The gates are closing... 

I look up at the Prosna

after it clears the gate

that brings it closer to

Lake Erie.