Ashtabula/tug Defiance departed Duluth 12/29/2014

The Ashtabula/tug Defiance  departed at 7AM Monday in below zero temperatures.

Indiana Harbor arrived Duluth 12/29/2014

The 1000 ft Indiana Harbor arrived at 10AM this morning with a heavy coating of ice.

Bentleyville closing night fireworks

Cameras Down!

Reply from camera streaming service in regards to our camera outage this morning:

sorry about the issue, it was our fault, we were adding a few more servers to your region (as a follow up to a yesterday's attack on our servers) and a configuration problem caused some of the cameras to become offline. We have only discovered it after the first ticket arrived. Please accept our apologies for this, all cameras should be online now, but if you are still having some issues, please let me know.

Thank you for your understanding.
--
Sincerely,


10:30 - Update -- All cameras restored -- problem with streaming service has been resolved. I apologize for the interruption.

06:00 - There appears to be a problem with the internet streaming service based out of Europe-- I am checking into it!

Bentleyville Fireworks Tonight!

FYI,
This is the last night for Bentleyville 2014. At 6:30PM CST there will be a closing fireworks display that you should be able to watch on the "Harborcam" Camera Page.

2013 Fireworks

Enjoy the show!
Den

Buffalo arrived Duluth 12/27/2014

Buffalo arrived at 7AM this morning for a load of coal.

Merry Christmas!

To all my Harborcam Friends -- Wishing your the very Merriest of Christmas's and a Happy New Year!

Hon James L Oberstar departed Duluth 12/23/2014

Hon James L Oberstar departed at 10:50 Tuesday.

Lee A Tregurtha arrived Duluth 12/22/2014

Lee A Tregurtha arrived at 13:20 Monday.

American Century arrived Duluth 12/20/2014

The 1000ft American Century arrived at 8:15 Saturday for another load of coal.

Farewell to the Salties for 2014 - Palmerton departs Duluth 12/20/2014

The Antiqua flagged Palmerton departed Duluth at 12:15 this morning after dropping off a load of structural steel. The last ocean vessel of the 2014 shipping season will race to beat the closing of the Welland Canal on December 26th.
Daylight hours start getting longer tomorrow and Spring is just a few short months away.  Enjoy winter while it lasts.
--Unusual for a ship to sound its horn at midnight, but, I guess this is a special occasion!

Palmerton

Bluebill arrived Duluth 12/17/2014

The Antiqua flagged Bluebill arrived Duluth Wednesday evening to load grain.

Mesabi Miner arrived Duluth 12/17/2014

Mesabi Miner arrived Duluth Wednesday afternoon.

Mesabi Miner

Hon James L Oberstar arrived Duluth 12/16/2014

Hon James L Oberstar Duluth Tuesday morning for more iron ore pellets.

Hon James L Oberstar

James R Barker arrived Duluth 12/15/2014

THe 1000ft James R Barker arrived Duluth Monday evening.

Aerial Bridge Quiz

While your waiting for the next boat, take this Aerial Bridge Quiz to see if you may be bridge operator material or at least be able to answer your friends questions about this famous Duluth landmark.

Palmerton arrives Duluth 12/14/2014

The 463 ft Antigua flagged Palmerton arrived Duluth this afternoon with a load of structural steel.

Palmerton

Flashback to August!

With the winter fog blocking the camera views for a few days, it might be nice to reflect back to August when the sailboats were in full swing.

Paul R Trergurtha arrived Duluth 12/12/14

Paul R Trergurtha arrived Duluth at 15:40 on Friday

Harborcam Upgrade in progress

Our new "Streaming" Harborcam installed. --- While I have some tweaking left to do on the new harborcam, it is up and running.

Comment:  Many thanks to those of you who donated to fund this camera. It is hard to believe that from December 3rd to today, the 12th, we raised the $1500, order the camera, and have it installed.  WOW - All I can say is thank you so much.

About the new camera view.  While the view seems a bit distant, I tried to include as much of the harbor as possible, so that the combination of the Bayfront Cam and the Harbor Cam will just about give us full coverage.

I will continue to adjust all six cameras that we have now and hope that you enjoy the different  viewing options.

Den

Bentleyville Video (17 Min)

Hope you enjoy this year Bentleyville "Tour of Lights" either by visiting or through this video.

Mesabi Miner arrived Duluth 12/10/2014

The 1000ft Mesabi Miner arrive Wednesday morning at 10:15

Camera Status!

Wednesday 08:30AM -- cameras reset and back online
Wednesday 07:30AM -- Looks like the Visitor Center cameras are down.  Investigating!

Breaking into the Light - AmericanSpirit

While a rather common scene in Duluth, the big boats on big water is still eye catching delight. The American Spirit pushed out of the Duluth Shipping canal. (from the files)

American Spirit

Winter Shipping!

I added the snow - just wishful thinking I guess!

Juno arrived Duluth 12/08/2014

Juno arrived Duluth at noon on Monday.

Bentleyville Kaleidoscope

The lights at the Bentleyville "Tour of Lights 2014" are a phenomenal scene to behold, but, this view is one you might miss when you visit.
Here is the view looking straight up inside the towering 128ft high Christmas tree, covered with more then 100,000 LED lights.
If you would like to jump into the tree and take a look around for yourself -  CLICK HERE

Bentleyville Tree (Vertical View inside)

Sunset Ice Fishing on the Duluth-Superior Harbor

If you look on the Harborcam during the day, way down the bay, you will see a bunch of small black dots on the ice.  This is the flock of Ice Fishermen that love to hit the ice as soon as it freezes up.

I stopped by at sunset to take a quick look from above with my little photocopter.