Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: mackinac island

One last photo from our sunset tour at Mackinac Straits a few weeks back.

Mackinac Island's fort dates from the Revolutionary War, when the British fortified the Straits of Mackinac to protect the fur trade from the colonial rebels. The US took possession of the island, and the fort, in 1796, well after the end of the war, then briefly lost it again during the War of 1812.

They call those hillside houses "Cottages." After a while you get used to the notion. Not everyone who lives on the island is rich; most are just relatively normal folks who live in an exceptional place. But Mackinac's been a rich folks' resort since the age of the Robber Barons.

The view from our room. That's Mackinac Island around mid-photo. But the picture's really about all those colors.

Marking the channel that runs between Mackinac and Round Islands. The birds are cormorants.

The pretty lighthouse on an island just outside Mackinac Island's harbor.

Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel from Shepler's The Hope , early in the lighthouse cruise. Reported to be the World's Longest Porch. I'm not going to argue. I've been trying to get this shot for years. Success! (Score +1 for the V1.)

Not many navigation aids are named after ships, but Wawatam Light sits at the end of the dock which was long used by the Mackinac Straits carferry Chief Wawatam . This light marks the entrance to the Saint Ignace marina. It's a new light . Wawatam Light was originally built as a decoration for the Monroe Welcome Center on I-75. When the Center was rebuilt in 2004, arrangements were made to move this structure to Saint Ignace, where (as you can see) it now decorates the waterfront (and, not incidentally, anchors the waterfront boardwalk). Mackinac Island in the background, where to all appearances folks have been building new "cottages."

"North American docked at Mackinac Island July 17, 1938" Passenger steamer North American was launched at Ecorse, Michigan in 1913 for the Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Company and cruised the lakes for the Georgian Bay Company until 1963; in 1964 she did ferry service across Lake Erie for Canadian Holiday of Erie, PA. She sank off New England in 1967; the wreck was located in 2006 . North American was 280 feet long; I've been unable to find her passenger capacity. Her slightly-larger sister ship, South American, had a similar career. The Mackinac Island harbor's changed a bit in the intervening decades. I've been unable to determine the identity of the smaller passenger ferry alongside North American. Borucki's Lakers

For the second consecutive day, an alternate version of the 366 Snaps photo rather than an outtake. Last year's version was processed "in camera." This version, processed on my laptop, is tightly cropped, and sharpened considerably. Frankly, it's pushing the limits of what you can do with a 3 megapixel image. This is the view from the Holiday Inn Express in St. Ignace. That's Mackinac Island in the distance, and the sky's often magnificent, though on last September 2 it was just a grey as it looks here. I've shared this view before . ========== This photograph is an outtake--actually, an alternate version--from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 6 (three versions of this photo, and some rocks) Title of " roll :" Straits Other photos taken on 9/2/2012: We headed off to Tahquamenon Falls and the Soo Locks. I took 300 or so pix with the Nikon 1. Here's a sample .