Category Archives: Boating, Diving & Beaches

Experience Great Lakes Week with Great Lakes Now

October 12, 2011 – 7:26 am

Edited Oct 17, 2011 to bring in the archived content from Great Lakes Week 2011 Detroit Public Television (DPTV), in partnership with the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes Commission, U.S. EPA, and Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition provided unprecedented access to the largest gathering of scientists, political voices, educators, environmentalists, and interested groups ever [...]

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Weird Wednesday: Michigan Sea Monsters

August 31, 2011 – 9:55 am

The last Wednesday of every month is a ”Weird Wednesday” on Absolute Michigan. Usually we get a feature from Linda S. Godfrey, the author that fascinating tome of Michigan mysteries: Weird Michigan. Linda is hard at work on her latest book so we’ve gone down to the vault and pulled out some watery weirdness! Stay up-to-date with [...]

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Northern Lights likely over the next few days!

August 4, 2011 – 8:47 am

Here’s a very popular post from yesterday’s Michigan in Pictures! The photo was taken by Shawn Malone of Lake Superior Photo at Little Presque Isle. While this is a little technical, it basically says “We might well see some northern lights in the next few days!” Be sure to follow Lake Superior Photo on Facebook [...]

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Saginaw students discover 2 wrecks in Project Shiphunt

July 26, 2011 – 7:29 am

mLive has a nice feature on some Michigan students who helped discover 2 wrecks in Lake Huron. 122 years ago, the 138-foot schooner M.F. Merrick was hit by the steel freighter Etruria, sinking both ships. The students used historical records and diving experts to identify the ships, and helped to document the vessels in 3-D [...]

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Paddle around the Marquette Ore Dock

July 22, 2011 – 8:39 am

Here’s a sweet video of a paddle around the Lower Harbor Ore Dock in Marquette on a Stand-up Paddleboard. It’s Andy & Matt Jones of the surf/skate/snow shop Casualties and the S.U.P featured is the Bark/Surftech Tuflite Construction 14′ Expedition Model and it was filmed with a Go Pro Hero HD camera. (I so want [...]

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Five Things You Need to Know Heatwave Edition: Beat the Heat in Michigan

July 20, 2011 – 9:52 am

Before we suggest a few ways to beat the heat, we’ll set the mood with Motown’s own Martha Reeves & the Vandellas who started at the Motown office in Detroit as William Stevenson’s secretary and was also charged with supervising Stevie Wonder during office hours and singing occasional backing vocals. Berry Gordy was impressed with her [...]

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Michigan: Great Lakes Surfing Capital

June 27, 2011 – 10:20 am

Surfing Michigan by farlane We’ve pulled together a great collection of Great Lakes & Michigan surfing videos with a few links: The photo was taken on Lake Michigan at Leland. You can see more surfing photos on Michigan in Pictures and also on Northern Michigan Surf on Facebook and in the Surfing slideshow from the [...]

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Solstice, Summer and Storms

June 21, 2011 – 10:49 am

Today at 12:16 PM EST is the Summer Solstice. Click that link to learn a little more about the solstice from Michigan in Pictures. We’re gearing up for an exciting development in our Festival Summer giveaway, so we’re going to keep it short & sweet today with this time-lapse video from photographer Ken Scott. It shows [...]

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Water and Michigan’s Future

June 6, 2011 – 9:19 am

Golden Sunset on Lake Superior by unifiedphoto The Detroit Free Press has launched a summer-long feature on the Great Lakes, water and Michigan. It starts with an interesting read by John Gallagher entitled Water shaped Michigan’s past: Now it’s a key to state’s future that looks at the economic impact of the lakes and their potential [...]

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Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival on June 18th

June 2, 2011 – 7:41 am

Awesome report from the Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival by our friends at Michigan By the Bottle! The Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival takes place on Saturday, June 18th from 1-10 PM at Weko Beach on Lake Michigan in Bridgman. It’s a showcase event that allows you to sample locally grown and produced varietals and [...]

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