Lake Superior

 From Mackinac, Trish and I drove to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and stopped for a couple of days at Munising on the shore of Lake Superior.  This massive lake is more than 1,300 feet deep at its deepest point and contains more water than all the other Great Lakes put together.

We stopped at Munising because it is the access point to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, a National Park we have never visited.  You have to see the shore from the Lake itself, which means a boat ride.

Both days we were there the winds were high and the entire tour could not run.  We only got to see the beginning of the beautiful Pictured Rocks on this trip…maybe again sometime.

 

Our big trip there was a glass bottom boat trip over to Grand Island where we were to see shipwrecks underwater there.  We say the restoration of the first lighthouse there where the keeper got $400 a year plus a cow for his service.  

Our boat had large glass panels in the bottom where we could all look down at everything underwater.  It was remarkably clear as we floated around over the Schooner Bermuda, a nearly perfectly preserved wreck of an iron ore carrier that was overloaded and didn’t survive its journey in 1870.

This stop was a bit off the beaten path, but we enjoyed coming here immensely.