Matthews Island Lighthouse

Algoma 2013


Matthews Island Lighthouse

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The lighthouse is my favourite photographic subject.

Matthews Island Lighthouse

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From the Pine Island ferry dock (which doesn't exist anymore although remnants are visible in the water here).

Pine on Pine Island

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A nice pine tree on Pine Island. Relatively few are left as the old-growth pine were used for lumber a century ago.

Outcrop, Pine Island

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Poking up through some exposed rock is a new fir tree.

St Joseph Island (northeast corner)

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This is the northeast corner of St Joseph Island. The notch-like bay at the top is Joque's Bay. At right is the channel that separates St Joseph Island from Drummond Island, Michigan.

North Channel

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Looking back to the northeast at the North Channel.

St Joseph Island

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The heavily wooded northeasterly portion of St Joseph Island.

Richards Landing

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St Joseph Island, Ontario, with Richards Landing in the foreground. You can see the bridge at the upper right, nearly obscured by cloud.

Richards Landing

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A close-up. This was my grandmother's home town.

Finn's Bay

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The U.S.-Canada border runs down the middle of the broad channel shown here. In the foreground is Sugar Island, Michigan. The small island above that is East Neebish Island, Ontario. Finn's Bay is the bay above that, with the small island in it at far right. At left on the Canadian side is Pumpkin Point.

Sugar Island and Michigan mainland

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This is the Michigan mainland just southeast of Sault Ste. Marie.

Sault Ste Marie, Michigan

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Soo Michigan.

International Bridge, Sault Ste. Marie

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The bridges (rail and highway) linking the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario (in background), across the St. Mary's River (with shipping canals and the five locks -- four in the USA and one in Canada). The large industrial area on the Canadian side is the Algoma Steel Corporation, now Indian-owned and renamed Essar Steel Algoma.

Pine Island Causeway

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AKA "The Fill".

Maskinonge Bay

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Our bay.

Marshall's Island

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Marshall's Island and the tip of the Long Point.

Landing Gear

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Coming in to land at YAM (Sault Ste. Marie Airport).

Marshall's Island

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AKA Blueberry Island.

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