Lighthouses, and a bridge

Upper Michigan has a lot of lighthouses.  All in one day, we were on the shores of three of the Great Lakes (Huron, Michigan and Superior), looking at some of the lighthouses.

 

This is the lightstation at Point Iroquis.  The light has been decomissioned and there is a replacement on the shoal offshore.

In Manistique we saw this lighthouse.

This is in St Ignace. 

 At St Ignace there used to be a railway that went out to collect rail cars which were shipped across the lakes.

We went way up to Whitefish point to visit this lighthouse and museum.  In 1978 the Edmond Fitzgerald sank not far from here on a night that the light was out.

Back in St Ignace we drove out to a park for a view of the Mackinac Bridge, although the weather wasn't cooperative.