Explored (#99 on Wednesday, January 9, 2008). Thanks!
Pretty boat. Leaving the harbor at Muskegon, Michigan.
While I've seen, and photographed, most currently active lakes boats, this one had somehow escaped me until yesterday afternoon. We'd gone to Muskegon to walk the beach, and suddenly there she was, leaving the harbor.
Sykes was the first American lakes boat completed after World War II, and was launched shortly after I was born. In many ways she's the prototype for a generation of lakers. And just plain gorgeous! Glad I finally found her.
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Shot from the breakwater at the end of the channel at Muskegon, looking at the small beach within the larger breakwater which protects the harbor. I particularly like the peculiar clouds, which are probably more visible in the larger sizes.
It was a glorious day at the beach.
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Explored (#51 on 9/19/2007). Thanks! (No longer in the day's top 500.)
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Best LARGE.
My father walked beaches, so I grew up walking beaches. Mom would pack a lunch, we'd pile in the car and head to South Haven or St. Joe or wherever. We'd walk, sometimes for hours.
Then for a long time I didn't walk beaches.
Now I walk beaches again, though not as often as I'd like. This one happens to be Muskegon State Park.
Explored (#50 on 9/19/2007). Thanks! (No longer in the top 500. Explore is mysterious.)
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Muskegon, Michigan. Best LARGE.
Explored (#60 on 9/19/2007). Thanks! (No longer in the top 500. So it goes....
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