July 26th: A big lake

We were camped by the lower Tahquamenon falls and so headed that way to start the day. They were even more scenic than the upper falls. The we backtracked to Whitefish Point, the site of a lighthouse and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. It was just off Whitefish Point that the Edmund Fitzgerald went down on November 10, 1975. We took advantage of our unusually warm summer to swim in 65 degree Lake Superior, much warmer than normal. The rocks on the shoreline were amazing in their variety and colors and begged to be built into a cairn and collected. It was hard to decide which ones looked best. Then on toward Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, stopping at Pine Stump Junction for lunch (how could you not stop at a place called Pine Stump Junction?), Grand Marais, Michigan, and ending up in a state forest campground within the National Lakeshore where we had our own private view of a lake, , a history of logging in the area from a park ranger, a roaring campfire and s'mores. Not a bad day at all.