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Driving over the Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan's Lower and Upper Peninsula's. I was driving north. The northernmost city in the L.P. is Mackinaw City. The town of Saint Ignace is on the other side of the bridge.
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Mackinac Grille in St. Ignace, Michigan, on the shore of Lake Huron. I had Whitefish; that's a common Michigan Great Lakes fish dinner.
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Tour boat (probably coming from Mackinac Island) coming into St Ignace, Michigan - July 10, 2021. It was about 9:30pm and the mosquito's were out, as the nearby couple also noticed.
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Marina at St Ignace, Michigan. Near the Straights of Mackinac, on Lake Huron. It was settled by French Jesuits in 1671 and named after St Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the Jesuit religious order.
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Lighthouse at Saint Ignace, Michigan, overlooking Lake Huron and the Straights of Mackinac.
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St. Ignace, Michigan fireworks - July 10, 2021. This was the first of the weekly Saturday fireworks, thru September 4th.
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Edmund Fitzgerald exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point in Paradise, Michigan. Click the picture a couple of times to magnify.
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Last communications with the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975. It sank 17 miles from this location, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point on Lake Superior, Michigan.
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Edmund Fitzgerald exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point on Lake Superior, Michigan. The wreck was made more famous by Gordon Lightfoot's song 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.'
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Edmund Fitzgerald video at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point on Lake Superior, Michigan. It sank near the museum in 1975, taking down all 29 to the bottom. Was built in 1958.
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan) about the first European in the Great Lakes, a Frenchman named Etienne Brule.
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan) - July, 2021 visit.
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan)
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan). Click to magnify the text.
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan)
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan). This shows diving equipment from the 1930s, used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan) - this is the bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald (1975 wreck). Click to magnify.
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Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan) - July 12, 2021. A great museum showing the long history of shipwrecks on the lakes.
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan), showing the perils of shipping. Click to magnify.
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Musuem (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan). It was interesting to see how many wrecks occurred in the 1800's and early 1900's that involved colliding ships.
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Musuem (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan) - poem about the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald wreck.
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Whitefish Point on Lake Superior, Michigan. The lighthouse and shipwreck museum are here, along with the original house where the lighthouse keeper and his family lived.
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Robert Carlson, lightkeeper at Whitefish Point during 1903-31. Click to magnify.
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Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 17 miles northwest of here.
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Exhibit at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan) - July, 2021. Divers and fish poking around the remains of a ship.
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Edmund Fitzgerald (1975 shipwreck) monument at Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan.
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Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan - July 12, 2021.
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Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan
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Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan
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Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Michigan on a hazy day. The world's largest freshwater lake has clear water. It is about 400 miles wide and 200 miles across, at the widest points.
