This is part three of six blogs on the history and development of Waterworks Park on Presque Isle.             While the extension of the intake line reaching 5,000 feet into Lake Erie was somewhat successful, it did not fully solve the typh…

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        Happily for me, Friday the 13th turned out to be a wonderful day for a short visit to Horseshoe Pond.  Sometime about 10 A.M., I left the house for Presque Isle.  I quickly become conscious that it was turning out to be a day of penetr…

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            I was at a dinner last week when a friend and I were talking about the lack of winter weather so far in December and January.   In fact, he was telling me about how just that afternoon, he had taken his canoe and put in at the …

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On one of my days off last week, I decided that the sun was just right, so camera in hand, I headed to Presque Isle. I made two or three stops to photograph fall leaves before pulling into the Waterworks parking area. After using the East Pond as a sho…

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This Presque Isle vista is named after the Sturgeon fish that were plentiful in Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes in the 1800s.  The vista is located at the 4th parking lot on your right as you enter the park.  It was common that the Sturgeon in La…

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I spent my Memorial Day weekend being lucky enough to hike, travel and take photos!
A photo I was able to shoot here was a fun to take and edit.  I love photographing waterfalls if you haven’t noticed by now.  

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