Shipwreck Gift Shop

Pick up your tickets for the glass bottom boat tour of the shipwrecks of Lake Superior at the Shipwreck Tours Gift Shop.

The State of Michigan has recently adopted the Lighthouse for its official symbol of Michigan’s tourism industry. This past winter, Pete and Joe, along with help from other family and non-family members, built a new gift and ticket shop modeled after Grand Island’s East Channel Lighthouse.

Marty & Phyllis Pokela, who spend their summers on Grand Island, provided Pete with copies of the original plans for the East Channel Lighthouse which was constructed in 1869. It was abandoned in 1913, but a restoration effort is underway.

The gift shop and ticket office entryway is a replica of the East Channel Lighthouse. The 32′ x 36′ interior is finished and echoes the lighthouse motif, featuring spruce wood planking throughout, a 22′ cathedral-style ceiling, white pine crossbeams, and four atrium windows, two each on the south and north sides of the building. A light is installed in the lighthouse tower. The gift shop design takes full advantage of a spectacular view of Munising Bay, with a bank of three 4′ x 6′ windows on the east side of the building.

The Gift Shop has a nautical motif with a wide range of nautical items and a selection of regional maritime and shipwreck books.

There are sweatshirts and T shirts of unusual quality and design, even some shipwreck designs. There is a section for model boats and framed pictures and posters of lake boats, including the Edmund Fitzgerald. Michigan videos are also available.

Captain Linquist operates the dive shop with rentals of tanks, weights and air refills.