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We stopped while driving east on the shores of Lake Superior. This was at Grand Marais, and it was one of the prettiest towns that we saw on the trip. I think that this would be a good place to stay on your next trip.
Hiking down the beach looking for shipwrecks. We were west of Au Sable Light Station and there were three shipwrecks laying on the beach. Sank because of a sandstone reef 1/2 mile offshore.
If you look closely at the picture on the left, you can see the ribs of the ship in the water. When the waves went out you could see the wooden beams.
The Log Slide Overlook at the Grand Sable Dunes, near Au Sable Point, was very high and steep and provided a wonderful view of Lake Superior. If you went down these dunes, you would have a very hard time getting back up.
Kendra took this old photo of us in 2005 and painted this good painting in 2022.
On top of the Au Sable Light Station. This was put here only after there had been over 100 shipwrecks in the immediate area. The fog is very bad there because of the high sand dunes, and the water is also very shallow and rocky near this point. Before modern guidance systems, ships used to follow the shore and there were many wrecks.
Kendra wanted to stop and have her picture taken with this elephant. It was at a McDonald’s somewhere near Hulbert.
Felicia and Kendra at Manistique Light House on Lake Michigan. We did not want to leave the UP area. The weather was nice, the people were very friendly and there was so much that we had not seen.
Last night of our trip was in a beautiful log cabin that was a bed a breakfast in northern Wisconsin. It would hold three families. The cabin was designed and built in British Columbia, near where we had vacationed a few years earlier. It was taken apart and shipped to Wisconsin.
We did some hiking through the woods. There were many deer at dusk and sunup. We counted over 60 in the field in front the cabin out at once. Kendra met a little friend.
