warming up in the warm sun and sand after a cool dip.

Port Huron, Michigan, USA

transferring pilots

America, IMO 9504114

Port Huron, Michigan, USA

general cargo

owner: Wagenborg

flag: Netherlands [NL]

length: 132.5m / 435ft

built: 2010

ex names:

Flinter A 2010-2015

Flinter America 2015-2017

2018, vessel sold and renamed Arklow Dusk, flagged, Ireland.

After sunset on Lake Huron

This Topsider lake house, built on Lake Huron in Michigan, was custom designed with an elegant front entryway and panoramic windows along the entire length of the house facing the lake. It was designed and engineered for heavy winter snow loads and maximum energy-efficiency. Built on a slight slope towards the lake, it allowed for a basement-garage beneath.

See more of this house - www.topsiderhomes.com/phototour-interim-page-18.php

It was a great day to be outside and soak up some of those lake breezes and summer sunshine. This is a pier in Port Austin, Michigan. The high winds and crashing waves made it impossible to walk down to the end of the pier and stay dry. That is the Port Austin Reef Lighthouse in the background.

A couple of years old. Taken 10 miles out on Lake Huron

On eastbound Air Canada plane flying over Lake Huron

Color bathymetric map of Lake Huron. www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/greatlakes/greatlakes.html

sunset last night

On eastbound Air Canada plane flying over Michigan including Lake Huron

frozen Lake Huron

Winter weather

a quiet morning....with cormorants and a still lake.

We are heading to the big city...for a busy weekend...commenting may / may not be possible...and likely NO posting! Have a pleasant weekend all !

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Here's a view of Lake Huron, the reason for the lighthouses in recent photos; the shot was taken at Tawas City about 4:30 in the afternoon of a wonderful mid-September day two years ago. I wish the sailboat were more prominent in the photo, but I didn't want to eliminate much of the beautiful sky to zoom in on the boat.

On westbound Air Canada plane flying over Ontario including Lake Huron

Lake Huron spectrum | | July 9, 2016 | Canon EOS 5D Mark III | ¹⁄₂₀₀ sec at f/8.0 100

A susnset on Lake Huron — Southampton, Ontario.

Manitoulin Island, Ontario

Practicing my grounding technique.

Camperdown, Ontario.

This is a friend's boat. Photo was taken on a calm day's ride from Tawas to Bay City for winter lay-up. Lake Huron, Michigan.

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Adult ringbilled gull with possible juvenile herring gull.

Can anyone identify the kind of sandpipers these are? Can't find the one with the brown patch behind its eye in any of my resources.

Behind a tree, the restored keeper's house can be seen, beside the light... these buildings were completed in 1859... of Ontario stone...The light is now automated( since 1954)...and the house was abandonned at that time. It was restored completely in this 21st century... and I do some guiding of visitors through the keeper's house in the summertime.

All work on the restoration was funded by...and done by.. volunteers! No government grants !! None !

More info about this fascinating spot can be found in my Chantry Island set opposite, and on the large and interesting website....

the island website:

www.chantryisland.com

while taking a walk on the beach I met a very tall man.

Lighthouse in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. (CRW_3943)

by aspry_1957

Growing on the shores of lake Huron, it's both beautiful and rugged.

Pinery Provincial park.

Chanel swapped version.

sunset on Lake Huron... and the strange colour comes from my Iphoto Enhance button... it sometimes happens when I use flash at sunset.

Grand Bend, ON