The Sugarloaf Marina in Port Colborne plays temporary home in season to pleasure craft from across the Great Lakes. Visitors from across America and Canada make their way by water to our South coast city to enjoy all the amenities we have to offer, and there are amenities aplenty. It can be a little chaotic during the busy season with boats arriving and departing, and of course there is the public boat ramp for day visitors with boat trailers going out on the lake for a day of fishing.
But off season, when the marina is closed and the slips are empty, it’s a lovely quiet place to visit. Those slips draw the eye as much as the subtle gradients in the skies over the lake. Watching the sun rise and fall over the lake is cathartic, and many locals sit for hours on the benches along the waterfront just soaking up the ambience, listening to the birds, and relaxing. In Summer and Autumn the water becomes green with algae. In Winter the algae dies off and the water is often grey and cold, even more often ice. Sometimes the lake is a calming, peaceful blue all the way to the horizon. The lake breathes. The world turns. The cycles repeat.
