Road Trip in the rain

Whitefish Point from the Lighthouse

Today we picked just about the crummiest weather day of the trip to see some sights in the Upper Peninsula near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Since we will probably be provisioning at that location for next year, we wanted to scout it out ahead of time. Lucky for us they have a super Wal-Mart which is really all one needs. Leaving SSM we headed northwest for the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point. This facility is absolutely first class and has many interesting artifacts from Great Lakes shipwreck history including the ship’s bell that was recovered from the Edmund Fitzgerald which went down on 11/5/1975 not far from Whitefish Point. This location marks the eastern entry into Lake Superior and is about as bleak as it gets.

Museum complex from Lighthouse

Whitefish Point Light

Bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald

Welcome to Paradise

Tahquameneon Falls (lower)

Back in Mackinaw City

Leaving Whitefish Point we backtracked through the big city of Paradise on our way to Tahquamenon Falls State Park where the larger of the falls is purported to be the second only to Niagara east of the Mississippi. While at the falls we enjoyed a nice downpour in 50 degree weather. We made it back to Mackinaw City around 7PM and after dinner we settled in to a comfortable evening with the heat on.

Tahquamenon Falls (upper)