My girlfriend and I attended the Tall Ships show at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois yesterday. It was a beautiful day for the show with sunny skies and temps in the mid to upper 70's. We got tickets to sail on the Windy, one of the Chicago based tall ships. I recommend this tour to anyone who wants to get out on Lake Michigan and get some great shots of the city and lake. Enjoy!
Waiting on the 151; Navy Pier in the distance
The Windy
Our Pirate Guide
The Chicago Harbor Lighthouse
Water Intake
Shedd Aquarium
Buckingham Fountain
Sears Tower
The AT&T Corporate Center, The Legacy, and Chase Tower
Navy Pier is a very funny place in Chicago. We enjoyed a great time there. We rode on the big wheel and saw all those tall ships. I would return there tomorrow.
The views of Chicago from Navy Pier and from the lake are spectacular.
fantastic pics! i've gone to the festival in years past, but i missed it this year. getting a mile or two out in the lake is one of the absolute best ways to take in the totality of the city's skyline. that pano you got of it is spectacular!
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Originally Posted by kool maudit
really brings you back to the days of chicago as a bustling, 18th century port.
maybe that was just a typo, but chicago was definitely not a bustling port at any point in the 18th century. by the mid-19th century it had indeed become an exceptionally busy port, but in the 18th century chicago was still a wilderness on the frontier edge with a handful of french canadian fur traders the only non-natives living in the area. ft. dearborn was built by the feds in 1803, and that's when the tiny settlement began to grow ever so slowly. it would remain unincorporated for another 3 decades after that. when the canals and railroads came to chicago by the mid-19th century, that's when chicago began to EXPLODE.
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i was being sarcastic... but affectionately so, as chicago is still a great backdrop for these ships that would never have docked there in their heyday.
Thanks for the compliments all! Chicago is beautiful from many angles, but there is just something special about being on the lake and looking back towards the city.
i was being sarcastic... but affectionately so, as chicago is still a great backdrop for these ships that would never have docked there in their heyday.
chicago, in it's lake port heyday, wasn't frequented by the larger square-riggers (not really a great lakes style of sailing ship), but those smaller schooners seen in the pics above are absolutely similar to the type of sailing ships that brought goods to and from chicago by the thousands back in the 19th century.
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