On to Hammond Marina, Chicago
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| Manistee shuttle gives you a tour of town |
Fence Art |
| Houses along the channel to Lake Michigan |
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| Heading back out onto the Lake |
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| Water show each night at Grand Haven, Michigan, east shore of Lake Michigan |
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| View from our boat. |
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| It's night-time fuzzy, but you get the idea |
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| Industry along the Lake's eastern shore |
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| Along southeast Lake Michigan shoreline. All your favorites from sand and salt to coal and manganese |
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| South Haven is another great stop with the town right handy at the docks |
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| You see this everywhere, boats looking like porcupines |
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| Next stop, New Buffalo, Mi. Had the essentials nearby |
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| Ken, Jan and Julie. We became friends at Anchors Way Marina, St. Joe and met up again at New Buffalo |
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| There we are at New Buffalo Municipal Marina with Ken and Jan (Simple Pleasure) on starboard and Frank and Nancy (Scard E Cat V) on our port |
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| New Buffalo Channel and beach as we get underway for Indiana and Hammond Marina |
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| Nice blue fresh water |
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| Our first sighting of Chicago |
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| On the downtown Chicago Architectural Tour boat Nice to let someone else worry about the bridges and vessel traffic |
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| The downtown boat tour is not to be missed! |
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| Duck your head |
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| Willis (formerly Sears) Tower |
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| "You are Here" mural See red dot. |
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| Note the tapered base to allow for train tracks below, an example of "air rights" being sold. |
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| Chicago Tribune bldg. where Pam's grandmother was the editor years ago. |
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| Tribune top with flying buttresses |
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| All around Tribune building are inlaid historic pieces from around the world |
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| Water cannon across the Chicago River |
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| Across the Chicago River at dusk |
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| This is the control room/bridge on our boat |
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| Some of our control valves |
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| Our lower steering station |
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| We need to keep a constant eye on our pressure gauges |
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| These are our two diesels |
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| Monitors and controls for our engine room |
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| Ok, I lied. That was really the U-505, the only U-boat captured during WW11. It was a big deal as it contained technology we didn't have yet, like a homing torpedo. It was captured two days before D Day and had two Enigma machines with the current Nazi codes. The codes stayed good as the Germans thought the sub was sunk. That was significant to allied efforts in France. It is 248' long, had 59 crew with 35 beds. The range was 11,000+ miles on the surface at 18 knots on her diesel engines, 64 miles underwater on battery-powered electric motors. |
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| Worlds fastest vehicle in later 1800s, 112mph, Old No. 999. |
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| One of the places we catch buses back to our Horseshoe Casino/Hammond Marina home |
