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The Miller Ferry cruises along Lake Erie, with Perry's Monument and International Peace Memorial on South Bass Island in the background. Ferry services to Put-In-Bay, Middle Bass and Kelleys ...
Service to Cedar Point started in 2016, with regular service to the islands in 2017. The Jet Express also offers excursions. These excursions are theme-based and visit a variety of U.S. and Canadian ports throughout Lake Erie and its tributaries. MV Jet Express II during a training exercise with the US Coast Guard Station Marblehead
In 1997, the Waterworks Ferry Dock in Presque Isle State Park received a $1.1 million renovation and dredging to reverse decades of deterioration. [1] Water taxi service between the Waterworks and downtown Erie began on June 7, 1997 with the introduction of the Presque Isle Express—a 40-foot (10 m), 36-passenger pontoon boat. [2]
The Lake Erie Islands are geologically part of the Silurian Columbus Limestone. When the Pleistocene ice sheets carved out the basin of modern-day Lake Erie, these hard rocks proved more resistant to erosion than the shales in the east, and as a result, Lake Erie's western end is much shallower than the basins in the east, so that the islands ...
A sunset at one of the beaches facing Lake Erie on Presque Isle. Water skiing and scuba diving are permitted at Presque Isle State Park in designated waters of Lake Erie. [53] Water skiing must take place in Presque Isle Bay or out on Lake Erie and is prohibited within 500 feet (150 m) of the shore.
Lake Erie (/ ˈ ɪr i / EER-ee) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. [6] [10] It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes [11] [12] and also has the shortest average water residence time. At its deepest point, Lake Erie is 210 ...
5. Lake Erie has islands, but there's no clue to how many. Ohio's portion of Lake Erie contains at least 26 islands in the western basin, but the exact number of islands varies, depending on water ...
The largest known seiche on Lake Erie was a 22-foot event that killed 77 people and dammed Niagara Falls with ice, temporarily stopping the waterfall from flowing. More recently, a 16-foot seiche ...