Thirty Thousand Islands, 29 August 2030

Cruise overview

Milwaukee’s lakefront Art Museum, poised beneath Calatrava’s soaring wings, opens onto the quiet inland seas of the Upper Great Lakes. At Escanaba, a coach ride carries you to the preserved nineteenth century ironworking town of Fayette, a harbor too small for any ship to enter directly, while sheltered Harbor Springs opens onto Little Traverse Bay’s resort charm. Step ashore on Mackinac Island, where automobiles are banned and horse drawn carriages carry guests past the porches of the Grand Hotel and fudge shops along the harbor, a rare small ship passage into Georgian Bay’s scattered thirty thousand islands. Quartzite ridges that once inspired the Group of Seven painters rise above Killarney, and Little Current, hub of the world’s largest freshwater island, reveals Anishinaabe craft and culture along the North Channel. At Midland, cruise the island studded bay to Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, a reconstructed seventeenth century Jesuit mission. Your voyage concludes in Toronto, gliding beneath the CN Tower into a cosmopolitan harborfront alive with a hundred cultures.