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		News Photo Gallery June 10 - 11 , 2009

 

6/11 - Duluth/ Superior traffic - Travis Chadwick
Quebecois loading taconite at DMIR. Her sister Montrealais loaded at DMIR two days before, unusual loads for both when leaving Duluth.	BBC Amazon loading wind turbine parts at Duluth's Port Terminal. These parts were bound for Chile.	Corps of Engineers tug D. L. Billmaier and barge H. J. Schwartz working by the Burlington Northern ore docks in Superior.	Montrealais loading taconite at DMIR.	Algowood waiting her turn to load after Montrealais. Notice the worker on her port side.
6/11 - St. Marys River - Herm Klein
Cuyahoga up at Mission Point with a load of salt for Thunder Bay	Bow	Stack
6/11 - CSX Presque Isle Coal Dock Toledo - Bob Vincent
Canadian Transport unloading stone at Midwest Terminal Stone Dock	Canadian Transport leaving Toledo	H. Lee White under the ship loader	H. Lee White heading for Muskegon
6/11 - Green Bay - Dick Lund
John G. Munson unloading coal at Fox River Dock (it later moved into the slip at FRD)	G.L. Ostrander/Integrity unloading cement at LaFarge	Close-up of the tug	Another view alongside the storage vessel, S.T. Crapo	Stephan M. Asher heads back out to the site of the dredging near Grassy Island
Dredge barge out near Grassy Island with one (of many) pelicans in the Fox River today
6/11 - Tuesday evening Brockville and Prescott   - Dave Bessant
Pineglen downbound
Tug Corpus Christie upbound with John D Leitch in the distance eastbound				John D Leitch at Prescott by the windmill of the famous battle
John D Leitch passing under the Prescott Ogdensburg International Bridge	Radium Yellowknife underway at Prescott upbound.
6/11 - Detroit River - Mike Nicholls
Maumee downbound off Zug Island.		Yacht Preseverence II upbound off Dieppe Park in Windsor.		Tug Carolyn Hoey and barge placing anchors for the pylon barges for the air race.
Tug Cormorant placing a pylon barge.		Walter J Mc Carthy Jr upbound off Dieppe Park.		Senator upbound off Windsor.
	Peter R Cresswell upbound off Zug Island.
6/10 - Point Edward / Sarnia - Marc Dease
J. W. Shelley in the north slip at Point Edward for apparent prop or shaft repairs.	Afternoon view.	Paul R. Tregurtha down bound at Vantage Point with coal for Recors.	Algomarine and former fleetmate Shelley (Algocen) in the north slip.
6/10 - Saginaw River - Todd Shorkey
American Century inbound just past the confined disposal island	Head on	Another view	Nearing Consumers Energy to unload
6/10 - Montreal - Rene Beauchamp
In the western end of the Port of Montreal, the self-propelled floating crane VM/S Hercules rarely seen underway.	Sauniere and Halifax laid up in the Old Port of Montreal.	VM/S Hercules about to dock at the Mark Drouin pier in Montreal on Monday.	Pusher-tug Corpus Christi departing Montreal for Sturgeon Bay on Monday.	Pusher-tug Corpus Christi seconds after clearing St. Lambert Lock on Monday
6/10 - Brockville - Murray Blancher
John D Leitch downbound at Brockville	Corpus Christi upbound at Brockville
6/10 - Seaway - Kent Malo
Maritime Trader downbound for Trois Rivieres, Quebec, seen here  in the St Lawrence Seaway at Kahnawake June 8.
6/10 - McGulpin Point Light relighting - Photos courtesy Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association
New replica lantern atop McGulpin Point tower	One of the helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City circled the lighthouse to signal the beginning of the ceremonies	Boy Scouts from BSA Troop 4 of Pellston, Michigan raise the flag	An overall shot of the crowd of approximately 1,000 people who attended the relighting ceremonies	Members of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians played their large tribal drum as part of the invocation ceremony.
Dr. William Anderson, retired Director of the Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries (l) and Frank Ettawagashik, Tribal Chairman of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians (r) were two of the featured speakers during the event.	Poet Mary Stewart Adams recites her updated version of Edgar Guest’s poem “The Lighthouse Keeper Wonders” which she wrote specially for the event.	The line to climb the tower lead from outside the summer kitchen door through the dwelling to the foot of the spiral stairs. Although the wait was almost 90 minutes, everybody was happy to see the view from the lantern when they finally reached the top.	GLLKA Executive Director Terry Pepper awaits the arrival of the next group of five to climb the stairs and take in the newly opened view of the Straits of Mackinac. Pepper worked the day in the lantern, where he recounted the story of how the new lantern was fabricated and installed on the tower.	On Saturday evening, McGulpin Point lighthouse casts its guiding light across The Straits of Mackinac for the first time since December 15, 1906. See McGulpin Point for additional information.

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