I have seen pictures of the lighthouse in Sturgeon Bay and wanted to walk under it. Okay so it's not really the lighthouse itself but the catwalk leading to the lighthouse.
Stacy and my first stop in Door County was the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal so I could walk under the lighthouse.
The lighthouse is part of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal and is actually part of the US Coast Guard Station there. There is small parking lot to park in or some street parking. It is a bit outside of Sturgeon Bay but not too far.
You can walk under the catwalk to the end of the pier. It is wide enough that you don't feel like you are going to fall in. It is concrete which does get wet when the waves crash up on it from time to time.
We walked to the end of the pier and back. As we were headed back in a lady stopped us and asked if we knew that a big ship was coming through the canal. Of course not. So we turned around and waited for the ship. What's funny is we had to wait for the drawbridge as we came into Sturgeon Bay and commented to Stacy that a big ship was out there.
It turns out the ship that was coming through the canal was the Arthur M. Anderson which was the ship behind the Edmund Fitzgerald when it went down all those years ago.
Seeing a ship come through the canal was probably the highlight of my day. Just seeing the enormity of the ship as it made it's way through the canal from the bay of Green Bay to Lake Michigan was jaw dropping. From what I learned there is no schedule of when a ship is coming through and we just happened to get lucky.
Check out the Sturgeon Bay Ship Pierhead and lighthouse the next time you're in Sturgeon Bay and who knows maybe you'll see a ship too.
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