Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: uscg

The Coast Guard sent this cute little boat to join us outside Ludington and follow us into the harbor. Doubtless on a Homeland Security mission. Looked like a fun mission. From the deck of SS Badger

On Sleeping Bear Bay, Glen Haven, Michigan. Part of the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, now.

At the Sturgeon Bay Pier Light on Lake Michigan (well, Sturgeon Bay). Listening to the Brewers game and waiting for a fish to strike.

At Lifesaving Station Sleeping Bear Point, Glen Haven, Michigan. Now part of the National Lakeshore.

At Port Huron, in 1998.

This is the new Mackinaw; the old Mac looks like this . Personally I think they should have spelled this one Mackinac. But hey, it's their ship.

The new Mackinaw, at its Cheboygan home. This one looks best in the lightbox; press "L".

Now a museum, by Mackinaw City's old railroad ferry dock. Since we were in the neighborhood, we stopped to pay our respects to this wonderful old lady . A fine tour; highly recommended. WAGB-83 was built during WW II, launched in 1944, and spent over six decades breaking ice and doing other necessary chores, mostly in or near the Straits of Mackinac. Her main job was extending the Great Lakes shipping season, so ore could make its way to the steel mills around Pittsburgh and Gary. She's been replaced by a very different icebreaking ship with the same name, working out of Cheboygan.

Corps of Engineers survey vessel BW Bufe, on display at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, during Engineers Day last June.

The harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, on a cloudy but sunlit day in 1991. We'd started the day in Kalamazoo, driven to Erie, Pennsylvania, then began working our way back home with stops at most of Ohio's Lake Erie harbors. Each harbor has its own personality.... The "bridge" is a conveyor between the coal (taconite?) yard/dock (off the screen to your left) and the trains beyond the Coast Guard station. No idea what that ship is. Camera: Chinon Genesis III. Added to Cream of the Crop as my current personal favorite picture.

Coast Guard Cutter Katmai Bay waits while Macarthur Lock rises to Lake Superior's level; Sault Ste Marie, 1990. Katmai Bay works out of the Soo Coast Guard Station. That's Sparrows Point in Poe Lock. I'll share a better photo of her in a few days. Perhaps two. Camera: Chinon Genesis 3.