Crossing on the Chi CheeMaun ferry and homeward bound!!

We traveled south from Espanola through some spectacular rock cuts and across Manitoulin Island to South Baymouth to catch the ferry, called the Chi Cheemaun across to Tobermory.  It is a two hour crossing and they give you ropes to tie the bikes down to rings on the floor deck.
You never know how bikes will be loaded on ferries....here are some options:
(1) Here they gave us a special line, put the bikes on first and then we left first (they obviously had their priorities straight!)
(2) Crossing Lake Michigan, on the fast catamaran we just joined the line with the regular traffic, but when we boarded the ferry they directed us to the side of the deck and we used straps equipped with small winches.
(3) In BC, on inland lakes this trip we just drove on and parked as no tie downs, as no big waves.
(4) In 2008 when we crossed from Victoria to Port Angeles, they gave us wooden wedges only to put under the bikes.  This was a really rough crossing that set off the alarm on Bev's bike....but the wedges held it up.
(5) One year when we took an old coal fired ferry across Lake Michigan, all bikes had to park on a 90 degree angle at the side of the ferry.  They gave you nothing and so we had to buy tie downs and started traveling with them on long trips. As an aside, one guy's bike fell over and knocked a couple of other bikes over...not ours fortunately.
(6) Some crossings are so small that you just sit on your bike for the trip.

We continued on home from Tobermory, finally arriving around 6:30 pm, just ahead of the rain.  This completed our epic 5-week 11,017 km western trek of 2015.  We will enter a summary post next.