Waking Up to the Sykes

 Last Saturday night, I saw a friend post a picture of the Blue Water Bridge from the Sykes.  So that prompted me to look up the Sykes on Marine Traffic.  Sure enough, she had just passed the Blue Water Bridge.  It was around midnight, so I figured it would be around 7:00 A.M. for her to enter the mouth of the Rouge River.

I set my alarm early because I had hoped to catch her.  I didn't sleep well and I figured I had a little more time to catch her so I slept a little longer.

I checked a couple more times and then I decided to go out.  

It's not often that I get to see the Sykes and after seeing my pictures, I'm glad I went out.

I think she was coming over from Burns Harbor with a load of coke.

Coke is what they use in the blast furnaces and it comes from the processing of coal.

After she delivered the coke, she ended up loading iron fines for her return trip to Burns Harbor.

Like I said, the Sykes is not a normal visit on this side of the state.

But the company that owned her was bought by Cleveland Cliffs.  They also bought the steel mill, so she might be over this way more often.

Since I didn't get over early enough to use my drone at Fort Street.  I decided to use it here.  I love te shadows in this picture.

I was trying to get an angle where I wasn't looking into the sun as much.

I like this shot.

I ended up shifting the drone around.

She didn't have a tug this time, so it was a little slow going for her.

But it gave me a chance for different angles.

Which meant different lighting.

I switched back to my other camera for a bit.

If only I'd gotten a train in this one.  If you look up in the sky, you can see a Spirit Airlines airplane.  You can also see the moon.

I love the reflections.

She slowly backs into the slip.

Like I said, it was a little slower this time.

One more shot with my regular camera.  But I like it.

And then I switched back to my drone.  I was trying from a lower angle than normal.

Catching her as she backs in.  I love this spot for pictures because of the background.

The water is a nice blue.

A bow shot.

But I think I like this angle more.

Another shot.

Another bow shot as she gets into her slip.

I love the industrial setting.

She's lined up.

And she starts to back up a little faster.

I didn't stay after this shot.  I had other things to go to.  I wasn't able to catch her as she left though.