Monday, September 28, 2015

Kaye E Barker arrived Duluth at 16:40

A painters pole helps get an elevated view of the Kaye E Barker as she rolled into the Duluth Shipping Canal this afternoon.
Kaye E Barker

Timelapse of Full Moon

This video is a time-lapse of 657 images taken over 90 minutes last evening.

Moonbeams, Boats and Bridges -- It doesn't get any better then this

As the Full Moon tracked across the sky towards an eclipse, it's reflective beam highlighted another "Superior" evening  in Duluth.


Paul R Tregurtha

Paul R Tregurtha

Federal Mattawa
Lunar Eclipse



Saturday, September 26, 2015

Harbor History -Duluth Fog Horn


Listen to the old horn!

 Story contributed by Zenith City Online
by This Day

On this day in Duluth in 2006,  members of Duluth’s TOOT (“ReTurn Our Old Tone”), who had purchased Duluth’s old fog horn, dismantled the horn. Duluth had relied on a fog horn from 1885 to until the 1970s—some folks loved it, others hated it. The 1885 signal was updated with steam-powered whistles in 1901, locomotive […]
The diaphone fog whistle as it appeared inside the South Pier Lighthouse. (Image: X-comm.)

Friday, September 25, 2015

History - Grand Island East Channel Light

Grand Island East Channel Light
by Terry Pepper
Location: Southeast tip of Grand Island, Michigan (north of Munising off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, see map below.) Year Built: 1867 Cost: $16,000 (about $255,000 today) Original Lens: Oil-fired steamer lens with a 49-foot focal plane. First Exhibited: August 15, 1868 Second Lens: Fixed white Fifth Order Fresnel lens (1869, range 13.25 miles) Fog Signal: None […]