What to my wondering eyes...

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 17, 2020, 5:35 am

River traffic at a steady flow -- especially yesterday evening, when I captured four up-bounders and one down, within 20 minutes!

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » June 15, 2020, 9:28 am

What I surprise to my wandering eye -- a special message at the Bean Dock Electronic Sign -- Congratulations Dawn C Roberts!!

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 15, 2020, 7:48 am

Yesterday's traffic was recorded in two segments, and Paul R. Tregurtha provided the most interesting. At Ft. Gratiot Lighthouse Park, a couple and several children from southern Ohio were heading back to the car when a, huge, moving bow caught the attention of one of them. Someone gasped...everyone turned...cell phones began clicking... questions flew through the air... When they learned their very first ever sighting of a Great Lakes ship was one over 1,000 feet long and the Queen of the Lakes...

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 14, 2020, 6:59 am

Winds have died down and the river is again calm and peaceful.

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 13, 2020, 5:04 am

Lots of saltie traffic, with an occasional freighter or tanker, on the St. Clair River these days.

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 11, 2020, 6:39 pm

My favorite kind of weather and a good amount of ship traffic today on the St. Clair River.

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 10, 2020, 9:18 am

A day of extremes along the St. Clair River. Today may bring more of the same and then severe weather to top it all off!

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 8, 2020, 5:58 pm

Took a trip downriver this morning and discovered that was where the boats were!

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 7, 2020, 7:27 pm

A beautiful cool and sunny day on the St. Clair River.

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 6, 2020, 6:07 am

Recent high temperatures have kept me mostly at home, but still caught a saltie, freighter, and tug/barge in the past few days.

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 2, 2020, 11:48 pm

Sun and high temperatures (91° in late afternoon) Tuesday saw a steady stream of both up-bound and down-bound ship traffic as well as a variety of pleasure craft on the St. Clair River.

garbear · Unread post by **garbear** » June 1, 2020, 4:16 pm

Bookworm wrote:
garbear wrote:Jackson has always been one of my favorite boats. She was a real "looker" before she got the boom. Nice shot!
Thanks. Which of the fleets did you sail with, Garbear? I thought it was Great Lakes.

USS/GLF.

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » June 1, 2020, 9:20 am

I'll not be going to the river today. With fewer ships, a sadness is creeping into my spirit. So, with photos from my archives, I'm celebrating the ones that never came out of winter lay-up and those who began the 2020-21 shipping season but went back to indefinite layup within several weeks, also noing their current location. Did I miss any?

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » May 31, 2020, 5:20 pm

garbear wrote:Jackson has always been one of my favorite boats. She was a real "looker" before she got the boom. Nice shot!

Thanks. Which of the fleets did you sail with, Garbear? I thought it was Great Lakes.

garbear · Unread post by **garbear** » May 31, 2020, 4:48 pm

Jackson has always been one of my favorite boats. She was a real "looker" before she got the boom. Nice shot!

Bookworm · Unread post by **Bookworm** » May 31, 2020, 11:04 am

Sunny skies, rising winds, and temperatures in the 40°s made it feel more like late April, but it was a great morning to photograph ships at the Bluewater Bridges.