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So for anyone fretting about No.1 - he's doing just fine

Looks to me they are fretting more about the rude song to do with Popeye JC.

I am glad to hear he is now walking wounded though..{creeps}

Janey, Hope you are still awake. I need to settle a discussion. Lake Michigan?? Salt or fresh water. Does it change with the seasons. Is it connected to the other lakes and does the water flow down the St Lawrence into it.

"Discussion" arose from a quiz question. Which is the longest FRESH water lake in the world. Options were Lake Tanganyika, Lake Michigan, and another whose name escapes me.

So Michigan, fresh or salt.

Ha I really do love highjacking your threads!!!

FRESH WATER






RUNS OFF THREAD AAVOIDING OLD BOOT BEING THROWN

OUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

No old boots on this thread Dizzi!

AuntyS, really. It's a lake. It's fresh water.

It's quite lovely -- it's the only Great Lake that doesn't border on Canada, but I holidayed there for a few days about 20 years ago. It was September, on the east shore of the lake, and in the little bay we were on it was beautiful green water (unlike Huron which is blue blue, for instance), and just warm enough still to swim in.

Some Great Lakes shores are just like an ocean -- Sauble Beach on Lake Huron, for instance, is much like Daytona in Florida. The waves don't get so big though.

Water flows *from* the Great Lakes *into* the St Lawrence and thence to the Gulf of St Lawrence and the North Atlantic.

Superior is the farthest west. I've only seen it in mid-February, and that is a sight to behold. Great big chunks of ice that have been battered up against the rocky shoreline, the lake frozen out from the land.

Huron is next. The east shore of Huron and around the Bruce Peninsula that divides the main lake from Georgian Bay is where I spent two weeks every summer with my family when I was a kid.

Actually, Michigan is sort of next. It dips down from where Superior and Huron connect, at Sault Ste Marie. Then there's the St Clair River running south from the bottom tip of Huron, and Lake Erie opens to the east from there, and then Niagara Falls between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. And Ontario feeds into the St Lawrence.

Here, for heaven's sake! www.maps.google.ca will take you straight there.

Do you have rivers in Australia where the water flows into them *from* the ocean??

Probably. Like the toilets that flush counterclockwise.

Go to google maps CA and ask for Sauble Beach, Ontario. Zoom in and put it on satellite view and you'll see what I mean about the beach and lake. Just like the Gold Coast. ;)

I finally spotted the name of the place in Michigan where I spent Labour Day weekend -- Ludington.

Ask google maps for

Parkview Cottages, Ludington, MI, United States

and that was the place. On satellite view you can see how the water is greener than at Sauble Beach.

East south east of Sauble Beach about 20 miles, on the bottom tip of Georgian Bay, is Owen Sound -- where *my* Ernest Hill settled around 1910!

Thank you for the info. Our rivers also flow into the sea, and yes they are freshwater. What was I thinking!! Duh!

I will google maps it. It was something I was interested in at school, long story.

By the way. Canada had an earthquake. Australia woke up with a new Prime Minister. Well we had a new one straight after breakfast.

Oh AuntyS. don't tell me you missed Janey's 'quake thread??

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1227173&px=1


Just pondering how the earthquake in Canada caused Australia to have a new PM......lol



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well



Canada and Australia are on opposite sides of the Pacific .......................................................



but then this earthquake was in the middle of the country

Hi SylviaInCanada.
Did not miss Janey's earthquake thread. Quite entertaining. And I don't believe there is any connection between said earthquake and our gaining a new PM.


The eathquake still to be felt here will probably occur when the voters go to the polls between now and the end of the year (possible) or before March next year (mandatory). I don't believe there are many Australians who voted for the PM, who has just been tipped out on his ear, would be very pleased with the way the democratically voted leader has been treated.

It remains to be seen whether the voter earthquake is minor, a small tremor, or a major quake of epic proportions which will remove the Labor Party from office. I await with interest.