July 1 - Mark Vandervelde was busy cooking brats for his fellow volunteers at our St. Helena Island light station earlier this evening. |
July 2 - It's another beautiful, crisp morning at our St. Helena Island Light
Station. You could wake up to this view as one of our volunteer keepers. |
July 2 - Early morning chores at our St. Helena Island Light Station - pumping water for hand washing stations. |
July 2 - Pizza and salad for lunch at our St. Helena Light Station today. Anybody hungry? |
July 2 - Moonrise over the Mackinac Bridge as seen from St. Helena Island this evening. |
July 3 - Michelle and Lori are making more preparations to mark "The Fourth" at our St. Helena Island Light Station. |
July 3 - An array of Showy Lady Slippers on St. Helena Island |
July 3 - Showy Lady Slipper closeup on St. Helena Island |
July 3 - Yellow Lady Slippers on St. Helena Island |
July 4 - Lori makes good use of our new solar power to prepare some whipped cream to top the group's dinner dessert. |
July 4 - Joan takes some time to organize and clean the library in the keepers office. |
July 4 - Ann cleaning windows to clarify the situation. |
July 4 - Mark and Hogan work on rebuilding the deteriorating entrance steps to the rear of the assistant keepers dwelling. |
July 4 - Michelle busy scraping. Since the lantern is an exact cast iron replica of the original, at least we know there is no lead in the paint and they do not have to wear masks! |
July 4 - Lori working on paint removal in the steamy lantern. Once the pint is all removed, the cast iron will be wire brushed, primed, and painted. |
July 4 - Mark and Hogan have completed their rebuild of the south rear entry into the assistant keepers dwelling |
July 4 - the cream whipped earlier in the day ended up on this beautiful red, white and blue patriotic dessert. |
July 5 - Hogan putting the final touches on the construction of a new bench for St. Helena. |
July 5 - A whispy line of fog in the clearing to the north of the lighthouse at St. Helena Island this morning. |
July 5 -Cleaning lunchtime dishes - lighthouse style. |
July 5 - Lori provides the finishing touch for the new bench at St. Helena with some freehand routing. |
July 5 - Three boats at the dock this afternoon - twelve visitors touring the light station. |
July 6 - Post July Fourth sunrise as seen on our "big screen TV" - the boathouse door. |
July 6 - Hogan, Mark and Lori have modified the swim ladder on the new dock to accommodate the deeper water levels this year. |
July 6 - A beautiful wood lily found near the lighthouse this morning. |
July 6 - Lori and Michelle finished scraping the lantern astragals and applied primer, and are now adding the finish coat of white Rustoleum. |
July 6 - Hogan, MaryAnn and Mark have finished building and installing a new sturdy railing on the back steps to the assistant keepers dwelling. |
July 6 - Work on the new bench for St. Helena is finished, and it takes it place of honor right in front of the boat house. |
July 7 - Our "Lunch at St. Helena" visitors making their way through the lunch line. Positive comments from everyone on account of MaryAnn's wonderful meal planning. |
July 8 - Food preparation in the summer kitchen is a constant process in the summer kitchen when you have ten hungry mouths to feed. |
July 8 - Whacking weeds into submission along the path from the assistant keepers dwelling to the main island. |
July 8 - Mudding drywall on the newly constructed east wall of the assistant keepers dwelling. |
July 8 - Volunteers Greg and Debbie applying the first finish paint coat on the east end of the assistant keepers dwelling at St. Helena this afternoon |
July 8 - What better way to end out the day on a remote island in Lake Michigan than a beach bonfire with your fellow volunteers! You can bet these folks will sleep well tonight! |
July 8 - Another beautiful and productive day at St. Helena comes to an end. Sleep tight everyone. |
July 9 - Volunteers Debbie and Greg were busy this morning applying a second coat of paint to the refurbished east wall of the assistant keepers dwelling at our St. Helena Island Light Station. |
July 10 - Our crew of St. Helena volunteers on the deck of a Shepler's Ferry boat at 7:30 this morning as they departed from St. Helena Island. Thanks for your wonderful work! |
July 10 - The new crew sits down to enjoy an Al Fresco lunch at the picnic table at the foot of the tower. |
July 10 - The island is a great place to learn to handle a kayak on a perfect Lake Michigan afternoon. |
July 10 - Sittin' on the dock of the bay - wastin' time! |
July 11 - A beautiful morning in the Straits of Mackinac as visitors at our mooring on St. Helena Island raised their sail and departed. |
July 11 - Geocaching in the woods on St. Helena Island. |
July 11 - Pumping water - a seemingly never-ending island occupation |
July 12 - It looked like the folks with the Round Island Lighthouse Preservation Society were having a successful open house as we passed by on this afternoon's Eastbound Shepler's Lighthouse Cruise |
July 12 - Our volunteers on St. Helena Island took the day off and kayaked around the island to the site of the old village on the north side of the island. |
July 12 - Photo of the St. Helena Island Light Station taken from one of the station kayaks this afternoon. |
July 13 - First-time keeper Dan and his yellow lab Moxie arrived at St. Helena Island Light Station earlier today, and are spending a quiet evening at the picnic table by the tower. |
July 13 - Moxie guards the supply-filled Rubbermaid tubs in the kitchen as Principal keeper MaryAnn explains the layout of the land to new volunteer keepers Jill and Reason. |
July 13 - Moxie checks-out today's rapidly rising water level at our roll-out dock. |
July 14 - Reason uses a flashlight to get a good view as he applies a final touch-up of plaster in preparation for priming the inner east wall of the assistant keepers dwelling. |
July 14 - Good evening world from the lantern at the St. Helena Island Light Station. |
July 15 - Sometimes you just need to find an isolated place to clear your head - even on an isolated island. |
July 16 - A sailboat tied up to one of our offshore moorings at St. Helena Island this morning and Reason headed out with one of our Zodiacs to bring them to shore for a tour of the light station. |
July 16 - The view of St. Helena Island Light Station as seen while MaryAnn was at the mic this afternoon. |
UGLY ANNE loaded and ready to head out to St. Helena Island with 20 wonderful guests on our one day Lunch At St. Helena excursion. |
July 22 - UGLY ANNE beneath the Mackinac Bridge headed for St,. Helena Island Light Station. |
July 22 - A
group of lunch guests make their way through he lunch line in the
lighthouse summer kitchen. We always eat well at St. Helena Island! |
July 22 - What better way to enjoy a wonderful lunch on a gorgeous northern Michigan day than on the picnic benches at the foot of the lighthouse tower. |
July 22 - TV 9&10 Videographer Corey Adkins interviews St. Helena Lighthouse Principal Keeper MaryAnn Moore with the Mackinac Bridge visible seven miles to the east. |
July 22 - Meanwhile, our volunteers cleaned the lunch dished behind the lighthouse in front of the assistant keepers dwelling. |
July 22 - UGLY ANNE Captain Chris West and one of our guests relax in the shade of the boathouse and enjoy the unique view of the Straits of Mackinac. |
July 22 - Their visit over, UGLY ANNE pulls away from the dock as some of our guests lean over the side to get a "last minute shot" of the light station before turning to head back to Mackinaw City. |
July 23 - A two-masted sailing vessel passed to the east of our St. Helena Island Light Station during lunch today. |
July 23 - Principal keeper MaryAnn suited up for combat with the poison ivy at our St. Helena Light Station this afternoon. |
July 23 - Goodnight world - we'll keep the light on for you! |
July 24 - The promise of a great new day on a peaceful island in northern Michigan. |
July 24 - Today, our St. Helena Island Light Station volunteers are repairing some cracks in the wall in one of the bedrooms in the main dwelling. |
July 24 - Yet another beautiful sunset tonight from the gallery at our St. Helena Island Light Station. Sleep well everyone. |
July 25 - The Petoskey Youth Group boat on the mooring in front of the light station. |
July 25 - The leader and boys from Petoskey jumped right in helping out in any way they could. |
July 26 - Today, Director Jake and the four young men with the Petoskey Youth Group are busy moving stone to build up sinking areas around the pathways at our St. Helena Island light station. |
July 26 - The boys work at filling-in with stone to the north of the boat house. |
July 26 - The 335-foot PEARL MIST dwarfed the Mackinac Island dock yesterday during the eastbound Shepler's Lighthouse Cruise. |
July 26 - It was almost 90 degrees this afternoon, and Moxie took the opportunity to languish in the breeze on the St. Helena Island Light Station crib dock. |
July 26 - The Petoskey boys decided to take to the water to cool off. This group works and plays hard! |
July 26 - MaryAnn took advantage of the cooler setting sun to repaint the license numbers on our Zodiac MARIGOLD. |
July 26 - The boys discovered a new use for our baggage wagons. |
July 26 - You've got to hand it to these young men - they know how to work and play hard! |
July 27 - White Shoal Light Station as seen during tonight's Shepler's Westbound Sunset Cruise. The lake was so calm tonight that an 18-foot open runabout had made it out to the lighthouse! |
July 27 - Grays Reef Light Station as seen during tonight's Shepler's Westbound Sunset Cruise. You have to love northern Lake Michigan. |
July 28 - We have a group of quilters enjoying the the peace and quiet that only an isolated island light station like St. Helena can afford. |
July 28 - With only limited solar-powered electricity on the island, hand sewing is the order of the day. |
July 28 - Another beautiful sunset at our St. Helena Island Light Station. Surely, It doesn't get any better than this! |
July 29 - We received word that the school sailing vessel INLAND SEAS from Suttons Bay is headed for St. Helena Island and should arrive in time for dinner. |
July 29 - 10 high school and college students from the INLAND SEAS explore the lighthouse and meet our volunteers. |
July 29 - INLAND SEAS Captain Ben Hale brought his fiddle to the dining room and filled the lighthouse with music. |
July 29 - As music and happy voices filled the dwelling, the light blinked on to faithfully served mariners as it has every night since September 20, 1873. Good night from St. Helena Island. |
July 30 - In the heat of the afternoon, some of the crew of INLAND SEA took the opportunity to cool of in the shade around the picnic tables at the east end of the lighthouse. |
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