Above: The ticket office and waiting area, sit next to the entry gate to the ship. A large parking lot is adjacent. Left: The entrance gate to the Badger, warns passengers that they will no longer have access to their cars. It also warns non passengers that they have no business passing through. Below: Large trucks, and commercial loads are common. The Badger was originally built to transport fully loaded train cars, and has no problem with even the largest trucks.
	Above: Cars are driven into the waiting maw of the Badger. They are driven in, and parked, by Badger employees.  Left: Counterweights help manage the load on the bridge to the ship. beyond site the lighthouse, and the harbor entrance.
	Left: Passengers board though the same huge opening, and then proceed up a flight of stairs. A lift is available tor the infirm. Below: The car hold of the SS Badger. One of the passenger stairways can be seen to the right of the photo.
	Left: Fuel for the Badger, sits in large mounds ashore. Below: Fuel for the Badger passengers is doled in in several dining areas on board. This one, is the Lower Deck Lounge.
	A look back, down the car entryway to the Badger. Cars and trucks to still be loaded, are lined up in the parking lot.
	Left: Passengers on the aft section of the upper deck, watch as some trucks are loaded on board. Below: A few shots of the upper deck lounge, called the Cabana Room.
	Left, and Below: Out on the open upper deck, awaiting departure. Up here, you really get a feeling of being on a big ship.
	Above: The harbor entrance. Left and Below: The foredeck, just below the bridge.
	Above: A look back at Manitowoc, and the river. Left: Trucks are backed onto the Badger. As they are the heaviest, they are the last to go. Below: A tug comes to push us off of the dock.
	Above: Black smoke shows just how hard this little tug is working, to push the 8000 ton Badger out into the channel. Left: The Captain, or perhaps a bridge officer, watches as the ship is move away from it's berth. Below; Passengers also watch the operation, though with a far less critical eye.
	Above: We are on out way. The ship is passing through the harbor entrance, out of the protected waters of the breakwall, and into the open water of the lake. Left and Below: The lighthouse at the entrance to the breakwater.

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