Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Okie Dokie, Picture time.

So at the beginning of the month me and my family went to Grand Marais, Michigan for vacation. While up there we visited numerous waterfalls, hiked through miles of forest and sand dunes, and saw the pictured rocks. The upper peninsula is amazing. The coast of it is hardly developed and everything is just beautiful......except the horseflies from hell...but that's another matter entirely. So to view the pictures in the order they were taken scroll down to the bottom of the post and proceed to scroll up to look at them. Otherwise scroll down and vicariously enjoy the awesomeness that is the upper peninsula of Michigan.

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Taken about around a half hour later than the pic below this one

A beautiful sunset over Lake Superior

Taken around 9:30 P.M.

A cool waterfall...I forget the name of this one

Another waterfall. The upper peninsula is full of them

Miners Castle taken form the platform behind it. Part of the Painted Rocks

Miners Castle

Miners Falls. Located near Miner's Castle oddly enough

Not quite sure how this happened

Taken on Hurricane River Beach...a Floating Tree

On Hurricane River Beach there are all these ship wrecks that are scattered along the beach.

The area had a very eerie feeling to it

Kinda Creepy

These ship wrecks are well over 100-110 years old

A shot looking straight down from the top of the lighthouse

When the lighthouse was decommissioned the lighthouse service, now the Coast Guard, completely destroyed the interior.

The National Park Service is now working on restoring the interior.

The Au Sable Lighthouse.

It warned ships of a sand stone "reef" that extended out from shore for about a mile.

I got to go up into it

"Hey dude"

I stood right next to that sign

The Log Slide a.k.a. The Devil's Slide

A 500' drop to Lake Superior.

I slid down and climbed all the way back up.

And yes, you were allowed to...

it just wasn't recommended that you do if you aren't ready for 45 minutes of intense climbing

Just to show the scale of things. (scale provided by my family)

Its about a 600' straight drop to the lake

This is showing a transition area where the forest turns into the dunes

This was taken along the trail to the Grand Sable Dunes

(which are actually growing each year)

Grand Sable Falls

We were on this road for about an hour. Taken around 9:00 at night

The Mackinac Bridge.

For whatever reason it perfectly fits in with its surroundings

This is the sun breaking through clouds.

Taken as we drove over the Straits of Mackinac