Evening photos of Lake Michigan with temperatures of 0°Fahrenheit
When I post photos of Lake Michigan I am often asked if you can see across the lake to the far shoreline. The answer is no.
Lake Michigan is 307 mi (494 km) long and with 307 mi (494 km)
Max. width and 118 mi (190 km)
Min. width.
The Max. depth is
923 ft (281 m)
It's a really big lake! Once, on a whim, my daughter and a college friend decided to drive around the lake. It turned into a much bigger adventure than they anticipated! The drive is roughly 1,100 miles long and takes around 17 hours with no stops. They ended up needing to call home for gas and food money. At least they learned the value of trip planning!
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. The Great Lakes Waterway enables modern travel and shipping by water among the lakes.
Wikipedia
The Great Lakes hold about one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water supply.
This week the news has shown The Manitoulin, a 663-foot (202-meter) Canadian vessel that was stuck in the ice on Lake Erie after it dropped off a load of wheat in Buffalo, New York. There were 17 people on board. With the assistance of Coast Guard ice breakers it was freed three days later and resumed travel back to Canada.
The sun was going down in the west and casting a pink glow on the clouds out over the lake. Photos and video were taken with a Google Pixel phone.
Wind and waves at these freezing temperatures cause more ice to build along the shore.
