What a gorgeous spot for the show in Grand Haven! The show is in a park that is right on a marina for LARGE pleasure boats. The water is the Grand River. Very shortly after the marina and park it passes into Lake Michigan. To say that it is wide and deep is an understatement. This becomes evident when the ocean going freighter passes by and blocks the entire heights of the high sand dune that forms the western shore.

I have a photograph that I named Big Red which is of the lighthouse at Holland State Park in the winter. About 80% of the people coming into the booth think it is the Grand Haven lighthouse. I drove out that way when the show was over. The beach at Grand Haven State Park was jammed. The lighthouse was in the distance. I’ll have to give it a closer inspection some time, but off hand it did not seem similar.

This is nice little show, but this year the sales were hard to come by. It was a HOT day and I never stopped sweating after set up. I’ll have to think hard about going back, but on the other hand it is gorgeous and I have to get closer to that lighthouse. Maybe I can catch it at sunset.