June 9 Munising, Mich. and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore cruise

    We had only the second night of rain we've had last night and still this morning.  (It appears we may be in rain a couple of days this week).  We drove out of it on the 2+ hours drive to this part of the Upper Peninsula.  On the radio a car dealer in a small town we had gone through said "Don't forget.  We'll take anything in on trade: land, livestock, even guns."

    Munising is a little town on a bay of Lake Superior.  We set up camp in a nice campground.  The back wall of our camper is all windows and they look out onto the lake here.  We've enjoyed that feature on the St. Mary's River this week and several other places.  These kayakers took off from our campsite.  Nice, huh, Dave?   Then we drove through town before the cruise.  No Victorian homes, but old ones, and most were so well kept and many have porches and many had beautiful hanging flower baskets on them, etc.  Some people had their ice fishing shacks sitting in driveways or side lots.  Lots of old buildings in a nice downtown that is several blocks long and deep.  In a shop were 2 cute plaques:  Today was a complete waste of makeup and You can't have everything - you don't have room.
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore cruise was 3 hours and 37 miles roundtrip.  It was so beautiful when we got here and then a big thunderstorm was to hit and the lake was so choppy that they postponed the cruise for an hour.  It was cloudy the whole time until the last 15 minutes.  Captain told us Lk Superior has 2880 miles of shoreline.  Not far out of the harbor we sailed over a shipwreck, but we couldn't see anything.  There are glass bottom shipwreck boat tours, too, but they are short.  The lake waters have made these rock formations and caves.  There were many cave-ins, with huge, huge boulders and small ones piled below where they came from.  The rocks went on for a few miles.  Their colors are the result of cedar root tannins, ore deposits and copper deposits, to name a few.  This lighthouse was built in 1867 and was one of many built on the Great Lakes right after the Civil War in the schoolhouse style.  It hasn't been used for over 100 years.
    Someone had left the fire pit full of partly burned logs and we hoped to have a fire with it tonite, but it has been so windy that we didn't.  That has been the problem lots of evenings when we have been next to the lake or the rivers.  We are watching the sun glitter over the lake right now.  It doesn't get dark until about 10:30 already, up here in the U.P.

    We forgot to put this picture on the blog from Whitefish Point.  Somehow we don't think this ladder scaffolding would pass OSHA or Hanford regs.