Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: marina

We've learned to look for herons at the St. Ignace marina. Joan found this guy--a bit outside his normal range--while we were walking the boardwalk on Saturday evening.

The prettiest boat in the Suttons Bay Marina. Rather wish we'd got her name....

This is the Marina at Suttons Bay, Michigan. It's cold, and the boats have taken shelter. But still a remarkably pretty place.

An Amphicar at St Ignace, Michigan; during the 2005 Car Show .

South Haven's harbor used to be a conventional port. It had open areas where self-unloading freighters could dump their bulk cargoes, and warehouses which protected incoming package freight and outgoing blueberries. At the end of our hotel's pretty alleyway is a tiny jewelry shop named "The Perfect Setting." The shop lives in an apparently ancient brick building which likely began as some sort of harbor office. Perfect Setting's wall shows an old (1960ish) aerial photograph of South Haven. Of the harborfront buildings shown in that photo, only two seem to have survived into the 21st century: Perfect Setting itself, and this large, also repurposed, structure.

St Ignace, Michigan. That structure in the background is what remains of the old Ferry Slip .