{"id":5200,"date":"2017-07-04T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2022-06-13T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:27:00","slug":"shipwreck-boat-tour-on-lake-huron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"Shipwreck Boat Tour on Lake Huron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on the east coast of Michigan which is on Lake Huron, we took a boat tour to view some shipwrecks in Thunder Bay. The Great Lakes have many, many shipwrecks over the years due to heavy shipping through the 1800s and early 1900s together with the bad weather and storms in the area. Over a dozen are in the Thunder Bay area and some of these are in shallow water and visible from a glass bottom boat.<\/p>\n<p>We saw two shipwrecks on our tour, the first was the New Orleans which was a side wheel steamboat used to bring passengers and freight from the New York area to the Michigan area. All the passengers and crew were rescued from this shipwreck. It sits in just 7.5 feet of water so it was quite visible from the boat.<\/p>\n<p>The other ship was the Monohansett which was a cargo ship. It sunk in 1907 in under 10 feet of water.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the tour we saw forested coastline and a couple of beautiful islands, one with a lighthouse and house for the keeper and his family.<\/p>\n<p>The tour boat docks on the river and we passed under a drawbridge to get into Thunder Bay. We had a good time on the boat; here are some pictures:<\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" scoped>.rbs_gallery_69e5b0faa5a6fSpinner{\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 50px auto;\r\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50px;\r\n\t\t\t\theight: 40px;\r\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t\tfont-size: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b0faa5a6fSpinner > div{\r\n\t\t\t  background-color: #333;\r\n\t\t\t  height: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t  width: 6px;\r\n\t\t\t  display: inline-block;\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation: rbs_gallery_69e5b0faa5a6f-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t  animation: rbs_gallery_69e5b0faa5a6f-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b0faa5a6fSpinner .rbs_gallery_69e5b0faa5a6fRect2 {\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation-delay: -1.1s;\r\n\t\t\t  animation-delay: -1.1s;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b0faa5a6fSpinner .rbs_gallery_69e5b0faa5a6fRect3 {\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation-delay: -1.0s;\r\n\t\t\t  animation-delay: 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data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Another-view-of-the-New-Orleans-wreck-300x200.jpg\"  title=\"Another view of the New Orleans wreck\"  data-width=\"300\"  data-height=\"200\" ><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img-data-popup\"  data-popup=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Another-view-of-the-New-Orleans-wreck.jpg\"  title=\"Another view of the New Orleans wreck\" ><\/div><div class=\"thumbnail-overlay\"><div class=\"rbsTitle \">Another view of the New Orleans wreck<\/div><div class=\"rbsIcons\"><i class=\"fa fa-search-plus rbsZoomIcon \" ><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img  category6659 \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-image   rbs-lightbox \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-thumbs\"  data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Lady-Michigan-glass-bottom-boat-300x200.jpg\"  title=\"The Lady Michigan glass bottom boat\"  data-width=\"300\"  data-height=\"200\" ><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img-data-popup\"  data-popup=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Lady-Michigan-glass-bottom-boat.jpg\"  title=\"The Lady Michigan glass bottom boat\" ><\/div><div class=\"thumbnail-overlay\"><div class=\"rbsTitle \">The Lady Michigan glass bottom boat<\/div><div class=\"rbsIcons\"><i class=\"fa fa-search-plus rbsZoomIcon \" ><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img  category6659 \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-image   rbs-lightbox \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-thumbs\"  data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/New-Orleans-wreck-seen-through-glass-bottom-boat-300x200.jpg\"  title=\"New Orleans wreck seen through glass bottom boat\"  data-width=\"300\"  data-height=\"200\" ><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img-data-popup\"  data-popup=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/New-Orleans-wreck-seen-through-glass-bottom-boat.jpg\"  title=\"New Orleans wreck seen through glass bottom boat\" ><\/div><div class=\"thumbnail-overlay\"><div class=\"rbsTitle \">New Orleans wreck seen through glass bottom boat<\/div><div class=\"rbsIcons\"><i class=\"fa fa-search-plus rbsZoomIcon \" ><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img  category6659 \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-image   rbs-lightbox \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-thumbs\"  data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/View-of-Monohansett-wreck-from-1907-300x200.jpg\"  title=\"View of Monohansett wreck from 1907\"  data-width=\"300\"  data-height=\"200\" ><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img-data-popup\"  data-popup=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/View-of-Monohansett-wreck-from-1907.jpg\"  title=\"View of Monohansett wreck from 1907\" ><\/div><div class=\"thumbnail-overlay\"><div class=\"rbsTitle \">View of Monohansett wreck from 1907<\/div><div class=\"rbsIcons\"><i class=\"fa fa-search-plus rbsZoomIcon \" 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class=\"rbs-img-image   rbs-lightbox \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-thumbs\"  data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Lighthouse-on-Sugar-Island-300x200.jpg\"  title=\"Lighthouse on Sugar Island\"  data-width=\"300\"  data-height=\"200\" ><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img-data-popup\"  data-popup=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Lighthouse-on-Sugar-Island.jpg\"  title=\"Lighthouse on Sugar Island\" ><\/div><div class=\"thumbnail-overlay\"><div class=\"rbsTitle \">Lighthouse on Sugar Island<\/div><div class=\"rbsIcons\"><i class=\"fa fa-search-plus rbsZoomIcon \" ><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img  category6659 \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-image   rbs-lightbox \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-thumbs\"  data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Entrance-from-river-to-Thunder-Bay-showing-lighthouse-and-bridge-300x200.jpg\"  title=\"Entrance from river to Thunder Bay showing lighthouse and bridge\"  data-width=\"300\"  data-height=\"200\" ><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img-data-popup\"  data-popup=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Entrance-from-river-to-Thunder-Bay-showing-lighthouse-and-bridge.jpg\"  title=\"Entrance from river to Thunder Bay showing lighthouse and bridge\" ><\/div><div class=\"thumbnail-overlay\"><div class=\"rbsTitle \">Entrance from river to Thunder Bay showing lighthouse and bridge<\/div><div class=\"rbsIcons\"><i class=\"fa fa-search-plus rbsZoomIcon \" ><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img  category6659 \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-image   rbs-lightbox \" ><div class=\"rbs-img-thumbs\"  data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/View-of-wreck-of-Monohansett-199x300.jpg\"  title=\"View of wreck of Monohansett\"  data-width=\"199\"  data-height=\"300\" ><\/div><div class=\"rbs-img-data-popup\"  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The Great Lakes have many, many shipwrecks over the years due to heavy shipping through the 1800s and early 1900s together with the bad weather and storms in the area. Over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shipwreck Boat Tour on Lake Huron<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-134-michigan-lower-peninsula-east-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6660,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/6660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}