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This birch lined trail on North Manitou Island, leads from the Ranger Station to the Northeast corner of the island.
North Manitou Island - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. A sign on the Beebe-McLellan Surfboat stated, Oar and wind driven Surfboats were used by the U.S. Life-Saving Service prior to the introduction of motorized lifesaving craft. The Beebe-McLelland type surfboards were self bailing, had sealed air compartments, a water ballast tank, a centerboard, and could carry a sail rig. This is the only known original boat of this type and is believed to have once been assigned to the North Manitou Island U.S. Life-Saving Station. The boat was constructed in 1908. A girls' camp on Elk Lake acquired this boat in the early 1920's, and it was sailed until the mid-1950's, when it was placed on a cradle, a roof added, the self-bailing and ballast tanks removed, to become a playhouse Noah's Ark. A fully rigged reproduction Beebe-McLellan surfboat is on display at the Sleeping Bear Point U.S. Life-Saving Station Maritime Museum at Glen Haven, MI.
According the National Park Service, during the winter of 1870-71, 214 people lost their lives in shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, and congress established the U.S. Life-Saving Service to conduct rescues from shore. This became the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915.
For more visit: w.nps.gov/slbe/planyourvisit/maritimemusem.htm
The fading light of a warm Autumn day illuminates the neighborhood west of Manitou Island - White Bear Lake
Camera: NIKON N80
Film: Kodak Gold 200
The Manitou Cliff Dwellings Museum exhibits relocated Anasazi Indian cliff dwellings. The Anasazi lived and roamed the Four Corners area of the United States Southwest from 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1300. The museum was established in 1904 and opened to the public in 1907.
The Anasazi did not live in the Manitou Springs area, but lived and built their cliff dwellings in the Four Corners area, several hundred miles southwest of Manitou Springs. The Manitou Cliff Dwellings were relocated to their present location in the early 1900s, as a museum, preserve, and tourist attraction. The stones were taken from a collapsed Anasazi site near Cortez in southwest Colorado, shipped by railroad to Manitou Springs, and assembled in their present form as Anasazi-style buildings closely resembling those found in the Four Corners. The project was done with the approval and participation of well-known anthropologist Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett, and Virginia McClurg, founder of the Colorado Cliff Dwelling Association.