Category Archives: Boating, Diving & Beaches

Photo Friday: Keeling Over by See Here Now

November 30, 2007 – 9:32 am

Some days, you just want to jump on a boat and sail away. See Here Now has some cool photos of Michigan. I especially like this one and this photo of the DH Day Farm on a gorgeous fall day.
You'll also want to check out their My Town set (slideshow) for some great photos of [...]

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Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary

November 20, 2007 – 8:26 am

Exploring the wreck of the Grecian
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Most information provided by the DEQ's Michigan Underwater Preserves page.
The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Lake Huron off Alpena was designated in 2000 as one of only 13 national marine sanctuaries in the United States. The designation created the first Great Lakes national marine sanctuary, [...]

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Five things you need to know for Wednesday, November 14, 2007

November 14, 2007 – 11:20 am

Downtown, down the hatch, downriver, downstream - I'm sensing some kind of a theme here...

Quicken Chooses Detroit Yesterday's Detroit News reported that Quicken Loans has chosen to move its headquarters to Detroit:
The move, pending yearlong studies of the former Hudson's site on Woodward and vacant Statler Hotel site, would consolidate at least 4,000 employees in [...]

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Word of the Week: Freighter

November 12, 2007 – 8:15 am

St. Mary's Challenger by midmichphotos
The word of the week is freighter, a familiar sight all along Michigan's shores. If there's one site that you can't miss, it's Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online aka "boatnerd.com". For well over a decade, the site has been chronicling the passage of the vessels of the Great Lakes. It [...]

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Photo Friday: safe passage by Where's Walden?

November 9, 2007 – 9:14 am

This is a photo from the Boyne City marina on Lake Charlevoix. Megan writes that she climbed over a 'danger: thin ice sign' to take these, but there's no ice yet. It's just one of the photos in her michigan meanderings set (slideshow).
She writes that until very recently she was a good southern girl [...]

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Senate hands Bush first veto on water bill

November 8, 2007 – 3:15 pm

A Peaceful Ending by suesue2
The Detroit News just reported that the US Senate voted 79-to-14 to override President Bush's veto and authorize $23 billion of water projects nationwide. The override is the first of the Bush Presidency and the Senate followed the House's 361-54 vote to override. Michigan's entire delegation in the Senate AND House [...]

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Remembering the Great Storm of 1913

November 7, 2007 – 11:23 am

Pointe Aux Barques LightHouse built 1857 by TamedWolf
Anyone who has spent time in Michigan late in the fall has probably heard Gordon Lightfoot singing of the gales of November. The big blow that sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald was far from the first (or deadliest). Wikipedia's entry on the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 says that [...]

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Absolute Michigan Word of the Week: Shipwreck

November 5, 2007 – 8:12 am

Sandusky by Michael Schout
The word of the week is shipwreck, and all November on Absolute Michigan we'll be featuring tales of the dangerous side of Great Lakes. A staggering 6,000 vessels have been lost to the fury of these inland seas, and approximately 1/3 of those were lost in Michigan waters. Michigan Shipwrecks offers a [...]

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Blogs We Dig: RandomSPACE by Lars Jensen

October 24, 2007 – 11:05 am

RandomSPACE features the musings and photography of Lars Jensen. Lars explains:
Well, I'm not sure what to say about this place. As the title suggests it is mostly random stuff, although in recent times it has mostly focused on photography from my travels. I try to only put stuff on this page that is interesting [...]

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Photo Friday: Langell Boys I by otisourcat

October 19, 2007 – 7:46 am

otisourcat writes:
My grandfather was friends with Captain Payea of the Langell Boys. Here she is frozen in the ice on Saginaw Bay. The photos show the efforts to free her from the ice.
He has this photo scanned in really big so you can zoom up close and maybe set it as your wallpaper. He [...]

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