Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: northport

Looking into town from the marina.

From last summer. Joan and I spent a week camping in sight of Lake Michigan; the wind never dropped to a comfortable level. Usually this beach is walkable, and quite attractive. Not on this day.

This photo shows the old Grand Traverse Light--it's peeking through the trees on the left--and the ugly steel construction which made it obsolete in 1972. Leelanau State Park includes these lights and a nearby campground; several miles away the park has a small wilderness area we can also recommend. There's a good museum in the lighthouse, and there's often a variety of birds in the trees.

Explored! #26 [October 16, 2007] Thanks! Another dramatic photo of Cathead Bay , at Leelanau State Park near the end of Michigan's little finger. Obviously there are other routes to the bay, but we took the park's trail. The view was incredible. Unretouched except that I resized it. It's surprisingly better (in some senses, anyway) in the larger size . Added to Cream of the Crop as my best photo for 2005.

Old light--the building--on the left; new light--the steel tower--on the right. In Leelanau State Park at the tip of Michigan's little finger. There was a fox on the beach when we were there the other day. Even though I was several hundred feet away, it abandoned the gull it was carrying and fled. To me I don't seem so scary.

Explored! #103 [February 4, 2013] Thanks! Leelanau State Park, Northport, Michigan. Best in large size, methinks. Two more views of this bay.

Lake Michigan, right at the tip of Michigan's "little finger" (or just south of the Grand Traverse Lighthouse).