And the Alpena

 This is one of the other ships that I wanted to catch.

The Alpena was heading down from her namesake city.

She was heading to Detroit to unload cement (what else?).

It was a fairly warm day, so there was a bit of heat haze.  I guess it wasn't too bad.

There is still some heat haze in this picture.

It finally got better as the ship got closer.

I hate heat haze.

The sun was at a better angle too.

There weren't as many fisherman.

One more shot with my normal camera.

I would have liked to catch her heading into the dock but I wanted to go to other places.

It would be another hour before she was near the dock.  I think there would have been more fishermen around her.

If she had a normal unload time, I could have caught her today.

As it turns out, she was doing a split load for Toledo.

If I had caught that earlier, I might have tried to catch her going into Toledo.

A beam shot.

She continues on.

I like this shot with the skyline in it.