Great Lakes Cuba and Caribbean Adventures

24/11/2023

Now accepting invitations for 2024/25
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08/11/2023

20/07/2023

Happy Viking guests as we traverse the Soo Locks in upper Michigan
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18/05/2023

Good morning from our gorgeous Great Lakes!

This is our M/V Kaye E. Barker this morning at the Straits of Mackinac.

19/03/2023

Ice at the long gone Racine Reef Light, WI on Lake Michigan, 30 feet high on March 27, 1912 - Photo from the GLLKA Archives

19/03/2023

20/02/2023

20/02/2023

There are churches I remember in my life though some have changed 🙏❤️⛪️🎼💒

16 new items · Memory by Michael Crowe

20/02/2023

Winter view at the fully restored Point Betsie Lighthouse Museum, MI on Lake Michigan - Photo by Bluesky Media LLC

15/02/2023

Congrats to the winners at Michigan Tech
Photo 📸 credit: Mark Timonen

23/01/2023

Must love lighthouses 💕🌊⚓️

Faro Di Mangiabarche

31/12/2022

Must Love the Great Lakes in winter ❤️ 🌊⚓️❄️

27/12/2022

Frozen Falls

20/12/2022

When the gales of October, November and December come to the Great Lakes, it can get pretty rough Wave splashes can exceed 100 ft

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Waves exploding against the cliffs of Tettegouche during the winter storm. 🌊

The pictures never do it justice for how big these waves are. The cliffs at this spot are easily 50 ft tall, and the waves were splashing well above.

28/11/2022

28/11/2022

My friend Bob Tagatz is Grand Hotels historian and a wonderful speaker if you ever get to beautiful Mackinac Island look him up 🙏🌊🌈

30/10/2022

Happy Halloween 👻

You can’t escape its clutches — just in time for , the Pillars of Creation reach back out like a ghostly hand. (Some chilling perspective: these “fingers” are roughly 5 light-years long!)

The eerie landscape is captured this time by the James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared instrument (MIRI). Mid-infrared light specializes in detailing where dust and gas is. Here, the densest areas of dust are the darkest shades of gray, while the red region toward the top is where the dust is diffuse and cooler.

Don’t worry, the baby stars seen in Webb’s near-infrared view (released earlier this month) didn’t disappear. They’re just not easy to detect in mid-infrared! Instead, MIRI sees young stars with dusty cloaks — the crimson orbs at the pillars’ fringes — as well as scattered, aging blue stars.

Hauntingly beautiful in any light, we can’t help but return to the Pillars of Creation over and over. And each time, we deepen our understanding of this region. With this new MIRI image, astronomers now have higher resolution data in mid-infrared light than ever before. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3DEqFws

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

27/10/2022

I have spent the last few days exploring parts of Niagara with a good friend, former colleague and fellow photographer. It is always so much more fun sharing your passions with others. It brings new perspectives and allows you to reevaluate your routines and try something new. I love this shot of the maple trees that we captured in Pelham Ontario, Canada, just down the road from the Comfort Maple! Some stops at the local wineries also helped to fuel creativity!