The Macinac Bridge at night.
A poor dilusional skiier in Michigan.
A lighthouse on Lake Superior in Wisconsin.
Lake Superior from Wisconsin.
A farm in Wisconsin with notably missing cows.... in all my travels I have never before seen the Great Lakes. They are amazing. Lake Superior is the largest ... and I can certainly attest to that. I awoke to it this morning and it stayed with me until about 7:00 pm. The scale of these lakes are unbelievable. They extend into the horizon like oceans do but they have a calm to them that decieves the illusion of sea. Although I learned today that Lake Superior can get wicked storms that can rival and ocean storm and which have sunk quite a few ships.
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There are now cows on the farms because they are scared of all the crazy tourists who come and sit on their bales of hay!
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee'
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early.
I have been on the banks of Erie, Huron and Michigan during the winter months and I would not want to be out there in a boat. They are nasty with the wind, cold and water hitting you all at once. They don't have the wave action that the Oregon coast has in the winter months, but you can understand why large ships have sunk there.
I actually watched a film about the sinking fo the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior at a visitors center in Wisconsin. It looks like they can get some really wicked storms on the Great Lakes.
oops, I realized that I already said that in my blog =)
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