Knowledge starts with alongshore conditions which vary from one lot to the next: Reach – width of the land; Fetch – open water to build wind/waves; Direction – compass point ...
Preserving beaches and bluffs starts with wind direction. This ’wind rose’ (think of compass rose) is for Grand Traverse Light at the tip of Leelanau County, north of Northport. ...
A Life Well Lived Along the Sea. As a boy on the Netherlands’ North Sea, I visited Texel Island. Here two Seas join (as Michigan-Huron join at the Straits). ...
Whaling and Other Lake Michigan Tales - Traverse City Visitor Center gets a lot of questions from visiting out-of-towners. The oddest might be the ones about whale-watching tours. Traverse City ...
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Whale in the Bay - We have all heard the idiom, ‘elephant in the room’, to draw attention to an ignored truth or issue. But what of the large truth ...
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