FROM Y'ALL TO EH!!! Day 7 May 31, 2010 Copper Harbor to Champion, MI

Another normal start had us leaving the park at 11AM, at least we are consistent.  The first stop this morning was a short jog north, very short as we came to the end of the road.

Only to find out it was the beginning of the road.  As the sign says, Hwy 41 starts rights here and goes all the way to Florida.  Who knew.

The next stop on the way out of town was Manganese Falls and again it was not all that spectacular.  I am not going to stop at anymore falls no matter how great the reviews are.  We couldn't get real close but I took the best picture available and then we headed on.

It wasn't that far down the road that we stopped to walk on the beach for awhile.  It was a cool and windy day as it should be on the beach with a rocky point. During our walk we ran into a bunch of people looking  for rocks or so we thought.  We found out they were actually looking for Agate.  Agate is a micro crystalline variety of quartz, characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of color. We looked for a little while and I think we found one.  Whooppee.

We left Hunter's Point and headed for a scenic view before we left town.  We climbed to the highest point in Copper Harbor which gave us a nice view of the town and surrounding area.

Town of Copper Harbor - Lighthouse on point.

   Lake Fanny Hooe

Island on the end of Hunter's Point

It really is a nice area and we both would like to come back some day, let me refrain, some summer day.

We finally got out of Copper Harbor and headed south on Hwy 26 which gave us a different perspective of the peninsula as it runs down the west coast close to the water.  The drive was quite nice as we had a view of Lake Superior just about the entire way.  We made brief stops to take pictures of Lighthouse, sandy beaches, bake shop run by the monks and other various things of interest.

Lighthouse at Eagle Harbor

                                                                          Bakery Run by Monks

We made a quick stop for a late lunch at a roadside park outside of Mohawk, MI and found this sign at the side of the road depicting the annual and largest snowfall in the area.  You can see from the sign that the record was 390.4 inches in 1978-79.  Now that's a lot of shovelling.

After lunch we continued on until we came to Van Riper Campground which is on Lake Michigamme just outside of Champion, MI.  We decided to stay here for the night even though it was still early in the afternoon.  We just relaxed and read a bit before having supper and called it an evening.  Another very enjoyable day.

Sunset Pictures of Michigamme