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Most of us would probably like to forget this past winter. However, thanks to the Polar Vortex, ice created on the Great Lakes offered some folks the rare opportunity to snowmobile out to remote lighthouses for close up winter photos.
Grays Reef Lighthouse is located in the Grays Reef East Channel of Lake Michigan that was marked by lightships until the lighthouse was built in 1936. (Photo by Tony Connaghan.)
White Shoal Lighthouse, west of the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan was built in 1910 to replace a lightships that had been stationed there since 1891. Its red and white “barber pole” design is unique to American lighthouses. The 2nd order Fresnel lens that was once in the tower is now on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point Lighthouse. (Photo by Tony Connaghan.)
This story appeared in the
May/Jun 2014 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.
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