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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Lake Superior

Weather

They don’t call them Great Lakes for nothing

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2019, 1:51 PM Feb 26, 2019
4

Can your summer do this?
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Weather

Surf’s up on Superior

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 2, 2019, 2:48 PM Jan 2, 2019
0

Is there anything that screams ‘Minnesota winter’ more than surfing?

No. There’s not. Read more →

A moment on Madeline Island

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 30, 2018, 8:54 AM Aug 30, 2018
7

Oh, nothing. Just a bear swimming to Madeline Island. Read more →

This or That

No lighthouse for you, Willmar

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 9, 2018, 8:21 AM Aug 9, 2018
6

Only a state with giant ball of twine could appreciate what might have been in Willmar, where a plan to move a lighthouse from Lake Superior in Duluth to the land-locked town appears to be sunk for good. Read more →

Weather

It was a nice evening for sailing on Lake Superior, until it wasn’t

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 17, 2018, 7:04 AM May 17, 2018
6

According to the reaction this video is getting, there are a lot of sailing experts on social media with advice to give.
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This or That

After 11 years, sunken camera reunited with owner

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 9, 2017, 7:33 AM Oct 9, 2017
3

For 11 years, a digital camera sat at the bottom of Lake Superior until Two Harbors photographer Christian Dalbec found it when he was diving a couple of months ago.

What are the odds Dalbec could find the owner? Read more →

People are jerks

Tourist boats set adrift in Duluth

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2017, 11:16 AM Sep 21, 2017
1

That was some fun a person had overnight when they invested time and energy and risked their freedom in order to set two tourist and event boats adrift in Superior Bay.

So what if it’s Justin Steinbach’s livelihood, eh, kid?
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This or That

At the midnight hour, people welcome a ship to Duluth

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 31, 2017, 10:32 AM Mar 31, 2017
3

And no hour is too late to keep the salute between ship and Lift Bridge quiet. Read more →

Weather

Here’s 48 minutes of ice stacking on Lake Superior

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 10, 2017, 2:19 PM Mar 10, 2017
4

Take one big lake, add some warm temperatures, and finish it off with wind and, voila! You’ve got a show. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Weather

The sea smoke of Lake Superior

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2016, 3:22 PM Dec 22, 2016
4

Duluth photographer Levi Drevlow is getting plenty of attention after his Instagram video of sea smoke on Lake Superior last week stormed the Intertubes. Read more →

This or That

The ghost ships of Superior

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 13, 2016, 3:41 PM Dec 13, 2016
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Real Minnesotans? They’re the ones who’ll stand along the canal in Duluth when an ice-laden ship like the Great Lakes Trader comes in from the netherworld of lake Superior as it did today. Read more →

The jobs we do

Aboard a saltie in Duluth, hurrying up to go nowhere

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 11, 2016, 8:27 AM Nov 11, 2016
9

The saltie Cornelia finally pulled into the harbor in Duluth yesterday, a scene we never tire of watching and a scene we’ve never watched without wondering if there’s a worse job in the world than working on a saltie? We don’t know the answer to the question because we’ve never worked on a saltie nor Read more →

This or That

They don’t call it Superior for nothing

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 11, 2016, 10:02 AM Oct 11, 2016
3

Few places on earth seem to do autumn as well as northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.

In a perfect world, it would last longer.

Alas, it is not a perfect world. Read more →

Regional history

Video surfaces of 119-year-old shipwreck on Superior

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2016, 8:17 AM Sep 14, 2016
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The Duluth News Tribune reports the wreckage of the Antelope, a schooner that went down with its load of coal in 1897, has been found and it’s ‘spectacularly intact.’
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Arts & Culture

Duluth’s Tall Ships from the air

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 19, 2016, 12:46 PM Aug 19, 2016
5

Eight giant ships of yore, their sails unfurled, are expected to glide underneath the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge Thursday afternoon during the “Parade of Sail” to kick off Tall Ships Duluth 2016. Read more →

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