Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: st clair

At Port Huron, 1998.

CSL's Louis R. Desmarais--now known as CSL Laurentian --northbound on the St. Clair River at Port Huron, Michigan, in June of 1999. The old Blue Water Bridge is in the background, and the new bridge is under construction just to the north. Yes, she was bright red. There's enough paint scraped off that hull to cover a small house. Mine, for instance. The name change was concurrent with a major rebuild; Laurentian has a very different bow, and hardly looks like the same ship. I liked this version better, but my opinion really doesn't matter. Shot with my Nikon N90s.

Sarnia's casino, Port Huron's MOC, and some boats on the river. July 3, 2005; shot from under the Blue Water Bridge.

The other day Larry asked "Where's the casino?" Of course, in May of 1991 Sarnia's Casino was still a warehouse. (I'm quite certain Larry actually knows that.) Far more interesting to look at, too, if you ask me. Taken from Port Huron with my Chinon Genesis III and a too-grainy roll of film. That's the (still singular) Blue Water Bridge in the background.

At Port Huron, last fall.

This is the ferry slip in Port Huron, Michigan, taken from the park they've built at Desmond Landing . CSX used to have a busy yard, just south of the Black River, whose purpose was to handle rail traffic which crossed the US/Canadian border on barges. That traffic has migrated to the new St. Clair tunnel (now named for Paul Tellier ), which opened in 1995. That's Sarnia, Ontario, in the background.

Originally an ocean-going tanker, but long the queen of the Great Lakes cement carriers. Seen here under the Blue Water Bridge at Sarnia & Port Huron. Late 1995, I think; they're just beginning to build the new bridge.

Memorial Day weekend, 1990, from the deck of Boblo boat St. Clair . Taken on the annual river outing of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit . My memory says the boat at the coal dock was James Barker , but I consider that unreliable. I'm gonna be paying for my fast film habit forever....

This ship was built in 1936 as an ocean-going tanker, sailing first as Pan-Amoco and later as Amoco (you can likely guess who owned her). She's been carrying cement on the Lakes as JAW Iglehart for National Gypsum and its successors since being rebuilt in 1965. History on the Boatnerd site . Pretty ship.... ============== Photographed in 1995 using my Chinon Genesis. This pic has some technical difficulties (fast film flaws, mostly) but I'm relatively pleased with it. That warehouse is in the background....

Thousand-foot lakes boat St. Clair downbound in the Poe Lock at Sault Ste. Marie; Engineers Day, 2005.

St. Clair River, from Port Huron, Michigan, May, 1991. Another nice picture from that grainy roll of film. That's Sarnia, Ontario, across the way. The ship hidden behind the trees is Algosoo.

A speedboat passes straight-deck freighter CSL's Murray Bay on the St. Clair River in May of 1991. Sold to Upper Lakes Group in 1994, and now sailing as Canadian Provider. There's some strangeness, here; the riverbank looks to be parallel to the photo edges, but the boats are oddly angled. Not sure why, though it might have been self-evident when I shot the pic. I really doubt that the ship was rear-heavy, though. Footnote: Most lakes freighters are self-unloaders, these days; straight-deckers require unloading equipment, and can therefore only unload at a limited number of ports. They've become quite rare. Camera: Chinon Genesis III

The highway bridge, the rail bridge, and the bridge of the (ship) St. Clair; Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, on Engineers Day, 2005. This is a technically dreadful picture--I shot it though the windshield, from the passenger side--but the composition's interesting enough that I thought I'd share it. Seem to be doing that a lot this week.

On a late Friday in June, the Corps of Engineers lets the tourists wander around the grounds at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Engineers Day, 2005, doubled as a kickoff to the Sault Locks Sesquicentennial. Best large; there's some great detail in this pic. Joan took this marvelous photograph of St. Clair in the Poe Lock, from the edge of the Macarthur Lock. I've cropped a lot of distracting nonsense from the shot, but the vision is hers. I took nothing half this good that day.

Here's the bow of the Louis R. Desmarais. That scrape's pretty dramatic. As I mentioned a couple days ago , this ship's been seriously rebuilt; the bow now looks quite different. & she's now called CSL Laurentian. St. Clair River, Port Huron, Michigan, June, 1999. Sarnia, Ontario, in the background.

@ Sarnia. Can't find basically any information about this ship....