Passengers peer over the rail of the Huron as the thick ice cracks and gives way beneath the 64- ton steel boat during the last trip of the day to Mackinac Island Monday, December 29. Visible in the distance are smoke from the boat and the Round Island Passage Light. Arnold Transit stopped the boat for the winter five days later.

While Arnold Transit Company's passenger ferry Huron is delayed en route to Mackinac Island from St. Ignace because of packed ice in Lake Huron Monday, December 29, Andrejka Hirschhegger of Santa Barbara, California, formerly of Saginaw, uses the time to snap some photographs of the Island. Grand Hotel can be seen in the background. The Huron, which usually can make the six-mile trip from dock to dock in a half hour, took almost an hour to arrive at its Island port that day. Miss Hirschhegger said the delay gave her an opportunity to collect photographs that she intends to use for a book she is creating that features photographs of the four seasons of Mackinac Island. The boat stopped running for the season Saturday, January 3.