Do you live close to a major body of water? Or a major river? Or plan to visit? Then this post is for you. As you probably know by now, we love to photograph lighthouses and ships. Lighthouses are usually easy, just map the directions and go. Ships are more difficult. They have this tendency…
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July 3rd: Beware the eastern wind
An east current is evil in The Lord of the Rings. The east wind is summoned by Moses to bring a plague of locusts to Egypt. Charles Dickens used it as a harbinger of unfortunate events. What does an east wind bring us? On the beaches of western Michigan… it brings… bugs! We were lazily…
July 2nd: Beauty of the fog
“Sitting in an English garden Waiting for the sun If the sun don’t come you get a tan From standing in the English rain” Those Beatles lyrics popped into my head as we sat on the beach yesterday. On one side of the dunes, bright sunshine. Only a few hundred feet away, approaching the lake,…
June 28th: How to totally waste a day
My step by step guide to being blissfully nonproductive 6am What light through yonder window breaks? It is the sun’s salutation… and I smited the shrew. Yeah, comforter over my head, back to sleep. If you are going to achieve little or nothing in a day, best to avoid rising early. Enjoy more languid lounging….
June 25th: The quiet beach
Seventy-five and sunny, summer has arrived. A huge pent up demand among the locals for good weather. The boardwalk was crowded… on a Tuesday. Drove thru the Grand Haven State Park today. Had to wait in a long line, so many people paying at the gate. Crazy. Besides creating a backup… $11 a year annual…
June 23rd: Ironsides and the John V Moran
As we fished last weekend, we watched a freighter slowly disappear in the fog. Then later, we moved around a permanent mooring buoy marking the location of the Ironsides steamer. Resting in 120 feet of water, it attracts fish, but also needs to be given respect lest fishing lines are caught in the wreckage. But the…
June 21st: Naked no more … return of the catwalk
On our fishing trip, the work on restoring the catwalk at the Grand Haven lighthouse pier was clear thru the fog. The catwalk was removed before we arrived in Michigan. Dismantled with the intention to refurbish and reinstall. But after inspection, most of the catwalk needed to be completely replaced. Originally, the catwalk served as…
June 19th: Brothers lost, brothers found
I had two brothers. My mother was 40 when I was born, she was in her 20’s when my brothers were born. They had the advantage of closeness in age. But differences accumulated between us all… geography, interests, personalities, slights – real and imagined, life choices. Seeing each other became rarer and rarer. I stayed…
June 13th: No bad days
When your life is a beach, there are no bad days. Just good days for fresh adventures. A Red Flag day means bring out the surf boards at the Grand Haven State Park. When these women arrived, there were another dozen surfers already in the water. Plus a few kite boarders. Yep, a little windy…
June 6th: More water
Water fast… maybe not the best thing to do. I did my 72 hours of nothing but water, well, except I had two romaine salads with a tablespoon of dressing. One yesterday, one today. Hunger pangs were almost non existent. When a little hunger knocked on the door, I answered with water. The two salads…