RHH's photos with the keyword: catwalk

These are a few more photos from an excursion to Grand Haven, Michigan, with my youngest brother. It was a wet, cold and windy night but when the lights on the pier's catwalk came on we forgot our discomfort. In this photo I waited until the lights on both lighthouses, inner and outer, were shining in my direction and tried, too, to catch the reflections on the lights in the wet surface of the pier. The pier and lighthouses have been turned over to the city of Grand Haven by the US government and the catwalk with its lights have been recently restored and relit.

Taken on the south pier at Grand Haven, Michigan. The pier guards the channel that leads from Lake Michigan to Spring Lake.

The catwalk on the pier at Grand Haven, Michigan, was recently restored and the catwalk lights are on once again. The catwalk was built to allow the lighthouse keepers to reach the lighthouses on the pier in stormy weather. They are no longer needed for that purpose but are a major attraction in Grand Haven.

This is the iron catwalk on the south pier at Grand Haven, Michigan. It was recently restored and the city had a dedication and relighting ceremony to celebrate. The catwalk was originally built to allow the lighthouse keepers to reach the lighthouses in stormy weather.

This is the south pier at Grand Haven, Michigan. It's catwalk with its lights has recently been restored and a dedication was held while we were in Michigan though we were unable to attend.

I had two opportunities to go out with my youngest brother to do photography when we were in Michigan recently. This was taken on the second excursion, a miserable evening, cold and rainy. Grand Haven, a city on Lake Michigan, has two piers, north and south that mark the ends of the channel that leads to Spring Lake. We first walked the north pier, just visible with its green light, and then drove to the south pier and walked it. We were ready to pack up for the evening when the lights on the catwalk came on and gave us a reason to stay. Grand Haven was deeded the lighthouses and pier by the US government and started a project to restore the catwalk and lighthouses. The restoration of the catwalk was recently finished and a lighting ceremony held. The catwalk was used by lighthouse keepers to reach the lighthouses in bad weather. We've seen ice on the pier to the height of the catwalk and waves as high as the outer light, so the catwalk certainly was necessary. The project to restore the lighthouses is on-going and the lights are not open to the public, though the pier is.

This is the south pier in Grand Haven, Michigan. The photo was taken on a wet, cold and windy evening but we thought the excursion worthwhile when the lights on the newly restored catwalk came on and spent some time walking to the end of the pier and pack for photos.

The city of Grand Haven is on Lake Michigan and on Silver Lake which empties through a channel into Lake Michigan. It has two piers which define the channel, this the south pier. The catwalk and lights were recently restored and we were able to get photos of them when in Michigan recently, though the evening was cold, windy and wet.

This is the south pier at Grand Haven, Michigan. The two piers, north and south define the channel which leads from Spring Lake to Lake Michigan. The catwalk and lights on the south pier were recently restored and were photographed on an excursion with my youngest brother in spite of wet, windy and cold weather.