A Few Great Lakes Light Houses

NOAA's Model of the Grand River entering Lake Michigan

Read more about the Great Lakes in The Dynamic Great Lakes.

Middle Island Sinkhole Lake Huron

Fresh ground water enters Lake Huron through sinkholes near Alpena, MI.  This video is from Google Earth.  Divers and research scientists have been studying this phenomenon since 2008.

Other underwater sites in the Great Lakes may be visited on Google Earth.

Diving Shipwrecks Lake Superior

Lake Superior Frozen

This satellite photo shows Lake Superior on March 3, 2010.  The lake is frozen due to the cold winter. 

According to NOAA, Lake Superior rarely freezes over completely and then just for a few hours.  Complete freezing occurred in 1962, 1979, 2003, 2008, 2009 and this year.

Read more about ice on the Great Lakes in The Dynamic Great Lakes.

Tribute to the Edmund Fitzgerald: Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes

So many sailors have been lost on the Great Lakes that an

1,850 pound solid marble crucifix was placed 70 feet underwater in

Little Traverse Bay in Lake Michigan, near Petoskey to

commemorate them.  The Dynamic Great Lakes

Water is Life

Remember the story about King Midas? He wished everything he touched would turn to gold. Then he sat down at a banquet and his food turned to gold, his goblet of water turned to gold--he then understood his mistake. Water is life itself.  We can't drink gold.

Like King Midas, we should never sell our water for money. It belongs in the commons. It belongs to the eight states and two provinces--the bottom lands under the waters as well as the shores, tributaries and groundwater that feed the Great Lakes. By selling this water, the Great Lakes will shrink and their species will die.

Only 1% of this water is replenished by rain and snow.

The Dynamic Great Lakes is a primer about the Great Lakes system and its species.