Lake Huron, Presque Isle Michigan

by Kelly Hazel

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Lake Huron, Presque Isle Michigan

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Kelly Hazel

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This photograph was made looking out over Lake Huron from the rocky coastal area in front of the Old Presque Isle Lighthouse.
Presque Isle is a small township in northern Michigan which boasts a small harbor and two lighthouses. The old lighthouse was built in 1840 from both stone and brick, but the harsh weather on the coast of Lake Huron deteriorated the structure very quickly and in 1890 a new lighthouse was built further inland. The Old Lighthouse is now a museum housed with furniture and tools that tell a visual story of what life at the Lighthouse was like when it was operational.
Lake Huron is the second largest of the 5 lakes that make up the Great Lakes of North America by surface area, and the 3rd largest fresh water lake in the entire world. It is bordered on the West by the US state of Michigan, and on the East by the Canadian provence of Ontario. Though the coastline stretches nearly 4,000 miles (I think this includes the island coasts), there are very few large cities located on the coast of Lake Huron, which remains dotted by small villages and townships like the beautiful Presque Isle, MI. There ar more than 30,000 island in Lake Huron!
There are also many famous (and not so famous) wrecked ships laying on the floors of Lake Huron--More than 1,000 shipwrecks have been recorded to date. Driftwood from theses sunken ships can often be found washed up along the shores of the lake.

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February 13th, 2017

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