Beaver Island Michigan

http://www.beaverbeacon.com/gallery/data/500/medium/4-28-2014-ice-coverage.jpg Important news: Ice conditions have improved. If ice and weather conditions continue to be favorable we will be making our first run of the 2014 season tomorrow, April 29. Departure times are tentatively 9AM from Beaver ...

Maybe we'll see the ferry out and about around the harbor tomorrow in the open water; still much ice between here and the mainland though. Hopefully it will continue to clear up soon.

IMPORTANT SCHEDULE UPDATE: The 2014 scheduled ferry runs for April 21st, 23rd and 25th have been cancelled due to extreme ice conditions on Lake Michigan between Charlevoix and Beaver Island. Ferry service will begin when ice conditions permit and we are able to safely operate our vessel. Please re...

Beaver Island Boat Company wrote:The 2014 scheduled ferry runs for April 21 and 23rd have been cancelled due to extreme ice conditions on Lake Michigan between Charlevoix and Beaver Island.

http://www.bibco.com/schedules-3/

Open water is starting to get a little closer...

Still a few miles south of Beaver Island, but at least there is a channel being cut in our direction! Still quite a bit of ice but spring may be on the way. Thanks to Buddy and to Michelle and Richie for pointing out this site which does a neat job of showing the route: http://shipfinder.co/ship/366...

NOAA Ice coverage, thickness, velocity, and surface temp maps
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/glc ... pe=N&hr=00

Marine Traffic AIS map
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/

The 2014 scheduled ferry runs for April 14, 16 and 18 have been cancelled due to extreme ice conditions on Lake Michigan between Charlevoix and Beaver Island. Ferry service will begin when ice conditions permit and we are able to safely operate our vessel. Please refer to our web page www.bibco.com...

When the Beacon site was launched in October of 2002 the forum was added along with the gallery to share extra photos that didn't fit in the early issues and news items, announcements, and other items that were timely and between issues. In the first part of 2003 Richie had the idea of registering t...

Great job to all involved. It's nice to see how well people come together and help eachother on the Island when needed to get things done. Good Afternoon, I just received word from Margo Marks, BIBCO President, that the Emerald Isle has been cleared by the Coast Guard to run. She will be departing C...

Celebrate the 4th of July in Style! Come by Shipwreck Shirts and check out our newest T-shirt design! The shirts are expected to arrive by June 25, 2010 â?? just in time for the holiday! Summer hours start June 21, 9:30 am â?? 5 pm. http://www.beaverbeacon.com/fimg/shipwreck-shirts-4th-of-july.jpg ...

Hi Holly - I have no idea whether the cabin you described is still standing, but I do have this photo of my grandmother (Mary Gatliff) feeding a fawn with a baby bottle that was taken about the same time you mentioned in your email. http://www.beaverbeacon.com/fimg/gramanddeer.jpg The fawn was in a ...

The forum doesn't support uploading images directly (I could modify it to do so, but I'm waiting on the next version first... long story...) You can either upload it to your own web space or ISP web space and link to it (or use IMG tags to call it into a post.) Or you are welcome to upload it to our...

Good catch.

That is quite embarrassing and it's entirely our fault. Our sincere apologies for doing such a poor job typing We will do better in the future.

Having heard about the renaissance of Beaver Island art, anchorwoman Diana Fairbanks of TV 7 & 4 and cameraman Bob Rhodes came hereâ??a first for them bothâ??in late July to see for themselves and to interview Sue Thompson, Mary Scholl, Skip Duhamel, Pat Boyle, and Cindy Ricksgers, a representative sample of the Island offerings. Skip had to work, saying, â??If you want to interview me, youâ??ll have to climb on the boat.â?￾ So they did, and suddenly found themselves hearing about the spiritual aspect of totem pole carving while Skip lifted his nets at High Island. It seemed the day had just begun when it was time for Diana and Bob to get on the five oâ??clock plane. Knowing there was much more to see, they promised theyâ??d be backâ??and would set aside more than a single day for their next visit.

The gallery pieces air every other Thursday on 7&4 news at 5 (and the following morning on the 6am show.)

The first one will air Thursday August 5th at 5:00 p.m.

The others will air August 19th, September 2nd and September 16th.