NMI Pickup
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45°4' 16" N, 85°58' 27" W45.07105 -85.974283
North Manitou Island.
For those of you old enough to remember the island pickup/dropoff point off the beach by Bourniques. This was before the fancy dock they put in. If the weather was bad, the drop off point was on the south beach off The Big Windfall. The boat is the "Manitou Isle".
Photo date: July 1989
This photo was taken with an Olympus point-and-shoot film camera onto 35mm slide film. Slides were then scanned using an Epson scanner.
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Wow, I'm glad you posted this. Ironically, just last weekend some of my friends and I were remembering the days of walking the plank from the boat onto the island. None of us could remember exactly how it looked. Sometimes, the weather would force a pickup on the Southwest side of the island. That usually required walking off the plank into the water, and wading ashore. The insurance company probably wouldn't even approve this today.
Posted 3 months ago.
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Those were the days my freind, we thought they'd never end!
This is FANTASTIC! Thanks for posting this in the SLEEPING BEAR DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE (POOL) I’m glad you’re here!
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Thanks for sharing!
Cher
Posted 3 months ago.
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Can't say that I ever saw anyone fall in. Seemed like a real possibility though. :)
p.s., I think that's Dave Hooper helping us.
Posted 3 months ago.
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Hi, I blogged this to Remembering Bumpa on Leelanau.com - hope that's OK by you!
Posted 2 months ago.
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No problem using my photo whatsoever.
You know, Dave Hooper has an excellent photo of the "bucket brigade" from 1989 too.
And that might actually be George in the window. God bless the man.
Posted 2 months ago.
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This really triggered a lot of memories... thanks for the great photo. At the risk of aging myself... when the weather was bad, George used to pick us up in the 60's and 70's, just like this, on the south end of the Island. I remember one year when it was so rough that George wouldn't come in close to shore, so we went to the Boat House, picked up a row boat and took it to the south end (there was an old road to the south end that ran by Fielen's - I think) where we rowed out to the Manitou Isle. Wish I had pictures of that!
Posted 5 weeks ago.
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Great story oban. We had to hike down to the south end once, but having to take a rowboat out - that's original.
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