Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: michiganlighthouse

Whitefish Point Light Station, civilization's outpost against the inevitable storm.... I've taken dozens of Whitefish pictures, most of which are unsatisfactory in really obvious ways. This is probably the best; it has the right mood. Taken August 1, 2003.

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.

Shot from SS Badger. Decent picture, but I like SpringChick's photo better....

Since the waves regularly wash over the pier, the Coast Guard built this catwalk so the keeper could maintain the light in foul weather. The light's long-since been automated, so the catwalk's planking has been removed. South Haven, Michigan.

Joan and I spent her birthday walking the beach and wandering around town. As you can see, the water was a little choppy.

Turns out you can see the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse complex quite well from the Sarnia side.

A gull floats over the water at Grand Haven's pier lights on November 13, 2004. Shot from Grand Haven State Park. Scanned from a negative.

This is the delightful lighthouse at Seul Choix, near Gulliver, at the north end of Lake Michigan. I'm not sure why the place has a French name, but that name reflects that this is the only place between Mackinac and the Garden Peninsula where it's feasible to locate a lighthouse. Most of the intervening waterfront is swamp, or blowing sand, or sheltered. So here we are. Seul Choix marks the harbor for Port Inland, where Inland Steel's boats load limestone for the mills at the far end of the Lake. Except for the channel to the loading facility, this harbor's surprisingly shallow. Think I took this photo in 1993.... Camera: Chinon Genesis III