Posted By: DocJ44
Michigan UP trip - Oct 1 and 2 - 10/22/06 05:00 PM
Before starting our volunteer duties at Big Sable, I thought it would be fun to the visit the Michigan UP and see some lighthouses in the eastern part. We left home on a rainy morning Sept 30 and it was an 11 hour drive to Brimley where we spent the night. The rain had stopped by the time we hit Flint and it was a beautiful drive the rest of the way.. After checking in to the motel, we went to the Bays Mills Casino. We had a 45 minute wait until we could be seated for dinner so we played the slots. About 15 minutes into it, the machine suddenly started adding credits and realized I had won over $100. Realizing I had just won gas money for the trip, I decided to stop and entertained myself watching Scot lose his $20. After breakfast in Brimley the next morning, we started on our way. It was a perfect fall day and I would say the leaves were pretty close to being peak. After seeing how well my son’s pictures from his small digital camera turned out on the Portmouth trip, I had decided I was going to get a digital camera and this trip was the motivator to buying it. I wanted an intermediate-level camera with good zoom capability and decided on a Sony Cybershot DSC-H5.
The first stop was Point Iroquois which was open to climb.
Here is the view from the lantern room:
The next stop was Whitefish Point and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. It was such a nice place that we ended up spending more time there than I had originally thought. They sell great fudge there too.
This lens that is on display in the museum is the original 2nd Order Lens from the White Shoal Light that many of us saw last summer in Mackinac.
The first stop was Point Iroquois which was open to climb.
Here is the view from the lantern room:
The next stop was Whitefish Point and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. It was such a nice place that we ended up spending more time there than I had originally thought. They sell great fudge there too.
This lens that is on display in the museum is the original 2nd Order Lens from the White Shoal Light that many of us saw last summer in Mackinac.