Our cruise from Manhattan to Toronto continues on the Viking Octantis. We are on the St. Laurence Seaway. Seaway, because there are locks on the western portion of the St. Lawrence River. River flows from the Great Lakes in a northeasterly direction from Lake Ontario into the North Atlantic Ocean, and is #2 to the Mississippi River in North America. Remember my saying that a drop of water takes about three months to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico? Similarly, this hypothetical drop takes 6 to 8 years to pass through Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean. Or, from the furthest Lake Superior extreme, more than 200 years. Among the highlights include: Is fresh until around the city of Quebec, and eventually is ocean salty near Tadoussac. Portions of the seaway have peak tides up to 20 feet twice daily. You would thus think that tidal plants would be prominent, for studies estimate a potential of 1.5 gigawatts, or 1555 megawatts. ...
I wasn't particularly looking forward to the expedition today, a Zodiac ride on Bonne Bay, a smallish body of sea water of around 26 square miles, with people living around it, including the town of Woody Point, off which the Viking Octantis is moored. Newfoundland and Labrador form a province, initially called Newfoundland, but since 2001 known offficially by both names. Newfoundland is an island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, and has 95% the population of the province. Most of them are on the east side of the island where the capital of St. John's is located. The west side, though, is where we are moored. The total population surrounding Bonne Bay is 2,765, a drop of 4% from 2016 The population of Woody Point is 244. Peak was reached in 1966 of 341 people. The population of Canada was 20 million in 1966, but more than doubled to 41 million today. The population of this province was 493,396 in 1966, suffered the loss of the cod industry in 1992, but still increased...