I'm posting this tonight as I'll be on the road early
tomorrow - next post from Mackinac Island (link)!!
I wanted to go to Copper Harbor (link) today but it's 3
hours away and they have had significant flooding recently. So, instead I decided to go back to Marquette
and do some of the things I missed.
I started the day at The Dead River Coffee Roasters...it smelled amazing in there!! They had a French language radio station playing. English language jazz, but ads and announcers in French. Totally cool!
I went to the Marquette Maritime Museum and the Marquette Light house tour (link). The highlight of the museum was this antique lighthouse lens. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald display was interesting too- Yup it's a song too (link) Tour guide said that the line in the song about the lake never gives up her dead is because Lake Superior is so cold and deep that the bodies don't decompose.
I started the day at The Dead River Coffee Roasters...it smelled amazing in there!! They had a French language radio station playing. English language jazz, but ads and announcers in French. Totally cool!
I went to the Marquette Maritime Museum and the Marquette Light house tour (link). The highlight of the museum was this antique lighthouse lens. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald display was interesting too- Yup it's a song too (link) Tour guide said that the line in the song about the lake never gives up her dead is because Lake Superior is so cold and deep that the bodies don't decompose.
On a lighter note...For navigation purposes all lighthouses
have a different light pattern. The
Marquette lighthouse is a white light every 10.5 seconds. I also learned that the deepest part of Lake
Superior (1,332 feet!) is just off the coast at Munising...where I took the boat cruise.
I tried to go to the local art museum but as it's on the college
campus and parking was nonexistent...and it was too cold to walk far. So I found a lake side park to watch the
waves, read and eat the last of my farmers market finds. Those were the best peaches I've ever eaten!
I went back to the Presque Isle Park and wow was the lake different from the day I walked out to the lighthouse to enjoy the view. Very rough today. It was pretty cool to watch the kayakers, surfers and what I've learned are kite surfers (link) battle the waves. Surfing in the UP! Kind of cool...or rather very COLD.
I went back to the Presque Isle Park and wow was the lake different from the day I walked out to the lighthouse to enjoy the view. Very rough today. It was pretty cool to watch the kayakers, surfers and what I've learned are kite surfers (link) battle the waves. Surfing in the UP! Kind of cool...or rather very COLD.
While I've been in the UP I've seen people out constantly; running,
walking, hiking, sailing, kayaking and now surfing. The Yooper's (as people from the UP are
apparently called) really seem to love the outdoors.
Tonight is my last night in the UP. Tomorrow I have a 3 hour drive to catch the
ferry to Mackinac Island. If I get up
early I can catch one of the few ferries that goes under the Mackinac Bridge
for pictures. But, I'd need to be on the
road by 7:30 and I've sworn off alarm clocks so that probably won't happen. Oh well, they have ferries every 15 to 30
minutes.
This Airbnb (link) has been a good one even though I've still
not meet the host. The entries in the guest
book make me think this is not unusual. It also appears, from the guest book, that this
place has been almost fully booked for several months. I bet he gets lots of bookings during the winter
for skiing, snowmobiling, etc.
That's it for now - next post from Mackinac Island! I'm excited to be on the island and in a
hotel for a change!
I really want to visit here! It looks so relaxing and I would love that cooler temperature.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a place I would love to visit but not when it's cold. Love seeing all the places you are visiting!
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