Saginaw River Year End Review: September 2024

2024 Year in Review:  September 2024.  What a great month on the Saginaw River, with 29 commercial vessel passages, 11 more than 2023 and 140 passages for the year-to-date, 26 more than the year before at this time.  There was the first delivery of road salt to the Sargent dock in Zilwaukee in a few seasons, and a good variety of vessels and tug action, including what seemed like Northern Venture here every few days.

With the drone, I flew 26 times, logging 30.03 miles over 4 hours and 21 minutes of flight time.  For the year-to-date, that gave me 127.66 miles flown in 20 hours 2 minutes during 118 flights.

Saginaw River Year End Review: August 2024

Saginaw River Sunday!

2024 Year in Review:  August 2024:  August continued the above average trend in 2024, with 25 vessel passages, seven more than during August 2023.  This put the year-to-date passages at 111, which was 15 more than the same time period the year before.  We got a salt water vessel visit in August, as well as a number of days when more than one freighter was moving on the river, including three boats unloading at the same time, almost bow to stern of each other in a short section of docks in Essexville.  I also included a bonus train crossing the river on the Lake State Railway Bridge.

Looking to the sky, I only made 17 flights with the drone, covering 19.93 miles, over 2 hours and 55 minutes.  For the year-to-date, that gave me 92 flights, over 97.63 miles and 15 hours, 41 minutes.

Saginaw River - January 16, 2025: Princess Wenonah & Islander

The second set of photos from January 16, 2025 features the Bay City Boat Lines vessels Princess Wenonah, at her dock in Wenonah Park near Veteran's Memorial Bridge, and Islander, docked at Scotty's Sandbar on the Middlegrounds.