The 121 foot brig James McBride lies in 5 to 15 feet of water near Sleeping Bear Point. In 1848 the McBride was the first ship thought to have successfully made the journey from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Michigan.
The 121 foot brig James McBride lies in 5 to 15 feet of water near Sleeping Bear Point. In 1848 the McBride was the first ship thought to have successfully made the journey from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Michigan.
That didn't take long.
Interesting. Mother Nature, restoring and cleansing itself.
Wow, that’s neat!
I recall school studies in grade school in the 1950’s telling us that Lake Erie was so polluted, nothing would ever grow or live in the waters. Oil and chemicals were so thick on the service, that there were fires on the lake. Not any more.
“In 1848 the McBride was the first ship thought to have successfully made the journey from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Michigan.”
Well, I sure hope the sinking of the McBride was during a subsequent voyage because - otherwise - the author understands “success” differently than I do.
[T]he lakes altogether were 88.3% ice-covered as of Sunday — more than the 86% ice cover on the lakes on March 1, 2014, amid a winter with record snowfall and near-record frigid temperatures.
"Last winter, we had a little bit of a warm-up near the end of February, before we got another cold blast. This winter, we've had consistently cold temperatures," said George Leshkevich, a physical scientist with the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor.
"Hottest on record" used to mean something.
James Smithson (Jacques-Louis Macie) rolls in his grave that the institution he founded promulgates such lies.
http://www.weather.com/news/news/great-lakes-ice-cover-february-2015#!
Hottest winter on record...With back to back ice cover exceeding 80% on the Great Lakes for the 1st time since the 70’s...
But I know that little area almost as well as middle TN
I wouldn't want to live there but I like visiting a lot
It's very pretty great north woods meets Great Lakes
Most folks are ok
Takes more effort to butter em up than down here but I still try every time
Even the old bobbed hags or the hippies
Rural Michigan folk are not wholly unlike mid south people
Trucks gun racks and hunting and country music
They just talk funny and are more likely to be favorable over unions
Lots of Gadsden flags and in The Yoopers area u even see CSA battle flags
An eccentric bunch for sure
Only drawback is not as much work for folks
Decent food too
You could do worse
My kids climb that back side of the dunes near Empire all the time
It's a beast
And the one that goes down to the lake
No way for me
Those folks up there act like 60s is summer beach weather
Crazy
God love em
Where’s the Edmond Fitzgerald?
I wonder why the author didn’t try to connect the cleaner water to global warming.
The typical modern scientist is now a pathological liar.
Average February temp in my town was 9.8F, 12F degrees below normal.
So, we did our part to react to “the earth has a fever”.
The zebra mussels are hard at work filtering the lake water.
The cold water kills the algae and makes the water clearer.
Well if this was the hottest winter on record, I’ll take a cold one next year, please and thank you.
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