Das Gift Haus

06/08/2026

All upbound ships so far today!

Call the Soo Locks hotline for updates @ (906) 202-1333.

06/07/2026

This is quite possibly one of the most underrated road trips in America. It's known as the Lake Superior Circle Tour and it has you cross 1,000+ miles across the biggest great lake in the US and Canada, and all around it are sights you'll never forget,

06/07/2026

06/07/2026

New for your yard

06/07/2026

Yesterday under storm cloud skies, the Mesabi Miner made her way through Sault Ste Marie, carrying a load of iron ore bound for Cleveland... They will offload at the Cleveland Bulk Terminal, likely have a visit from some head office folks since it's located right there in Middleburg Heights, OH and then be on her way back for another load in the Duluth area

Off to the left you can see the Museum Ship Valley Camp and the Tower of Tower of History, 2 attractions you just MUST go check out if you're here in Sault Ste Marie ship chasing! They are two of my favorite places to go and I live here! LOL!

Anyway the Miner was looking amazing as usual and I'm looking forward to seeing her again when she comes back upbound!

05/01/2026

via ripl.com

05/01/2026

Posted by Bernie Arbic of the Chippewa County Historical Society. This unusual photo shows a ferry for the service to Sugar Island being built on the shore of the St. Marys River ca. 1940. The exact location, in fact, is captured by the presence of the U.S. Coast Guard Lookout Station #3, which shows up in the distance, above the ferry deck, on the left. That station was at the upstream end of the island we now call Rotary Island, not far from the Sugar Island Ferry Dock on the mainland side of the river. It was decommissioned and intentionally burned in 1976. So the land just across the narrow stretch of water behind the ferry is Rotary Island and probably a piece of Steere Island as well.

We are pretty sure that the ferry under construction was given the name "Chippewa," and that it was being built for a man named E.E. Peterman. That ferry was rebuilt (probably enlarged) in 1944, after which it had a displacement of 26 tons. The piece of equipment near the right edge of the photo is some sort of welding apparatus. It is worth noting that part of the water showing behind the ferry now forms the Kids' Fishing Pond, and this piece of shoreline was, in the mid-1800s, a part of the Methodist Mission property. Walter Materna Collection, neg. #38