9.1.2023 Manistee North Pierhead Lighthouse, seen from afar

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Built: 1927 … Height: 38 feet … Lens: 5th-order Fresnel (original)

We took the wrong turn in construction and ended up on the south side of the harbor opening in Manistee. But since the lighthouse does not have tours, and because the lake was so gorgeous that day, we just walked on the south pierhead and got a few photos from across the way.

Manistee North Pierhead Light, Michigan. Another beautiful day on Lake Michigan.

The water of Lake Michigan is an incredible blue. During one drive when we caught a glimpse of the lake, I thought it was almost a bauxite blue like the water in the old strip pits for aluminum ore near Bauxite, Arkansas. Not quite, but close.

Looking north up the coast, I could see the bluffs of the shoreline and wondered if that was Sleeping Bear Dunes. Probably not, but I still need to find out if all these shoreline are giant sand dunes. 

It’s also nice to see that the smoke on the water from the Canadian wildfires has cleared out, at least mostly. Further south on the lake it looked like a fogbank just offshore.

I suspect those shorelines to the north are all sand dunes with vegetation on top.
Sandy beaches can be found looking the opposite direction from Lake Michigan’s lighthouses. Not so much in this picture, but there are a lot of old people with dark, dangerous tans on these beaches. Pale Phil provides a sharp contrast to those tans.

Also in Manistee, we visited the SS City of Milwaukee, a rail car ferry in use since 1930, but that’s another story.

And there’s also the story of the wayward dog poo. Find the gruesome details in the cutline for the photo.

A job left unfinished, in more than one sense of the word. I guess it’s good that the dog poo was bagged up, but leaving it on the bench? Stay alert, people. (And yes, I forwarded the bag to the nearest trash can!)

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