Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: lakes freighter

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.

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.

I said a few days ago that Richard and I "more or less accidentally" found our way to Port Huron's Desmond Landing. That occurred because we spotted a ship out on the river, looking from the construction project which has taken over downtown PH. This was the ship....

In the weblog entry that originally accompanied what is by most measures my most popular Flickr-picture , I called this ship "ugly." I stand by that description. Nicely maintained, though. Port Huron, Michigan, of course; part of the same series of photographs as the earlier posting.

The ship is Teakglen, photographed at Sarnia's Government Dock last weekend. This ship's reported to be bound for the shipbreakers within the next few weeks.

This is Willowglen, photographed at Port Huron in 1991. Although she was a relatively small boat, she plied the Lakes and the Saint Lawrence for half a century. That's Algosoo hiding behind the trees.... Camera: Chinon Genesis III. Rescan posted 3/12/06.