Lake Michigan, Round Lake, and Lake Charlevoix at one time were three distinct lakes with different water levels and were modestly connected by unnavigable rocky and shallow rivers. In 1869 local citizens cleared a forested area and created connecting channels to make travel between the three lakes possible. In doing so, they caused Lake Charlevoix…
Vessels of all sizes stream past Round Island Light, from small pleasure craft to Mackinac Island tourist ferries, to the mighty 1,000-foot lake freighters who need to pass by on their journey from Lake Michigan through the Straits of Mackinac on to Lake Superior. I took this shot from the upper deck of a Shepler’s…
What will guide your path? Nauset Beach Light is a restored lighthouse within the Cape Cod National Seashore. It guides mariners who are traveling up and down the Eastern Seaboard. The color pattern of the structure, and at night the flashing light pattern, identifies one’s location (Eastham, Massachusetts). Wouldn’t it be nice to have a…
A calm and sunny day along the west coast of Lake Superior, but this famous lighthouse guided mariners through gale and storm from 1910 to 1969 – Split Rock Lighthouse State Park. The melody of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” came to mind as I stood here, knowing that everything was so different the…