early saturday morning we were sitting around with coffees and deciding on what to do with the beautiful day. we discussed all the household projects that we could do and then promptly saddled up the truck and the dog and ran away for the day-- north 2 hours to munising, michigan on lake superior. we took a 2 hour cruise along the pictured rocks national lakeshore. it was breathtaking! millions of years of deposition, erosion from wind and wave, and the oozing of minerals to the surface of the cliffs, creating beautiful colors and bands of striping on the stone. there were arches and caves, and on the top, nature holding on for dear life in the form of tenacious pines, birch, and poplar.it was a fantastic trip, and lake superior is absolutely awesome--the water is a beautiful green in the shallows and navy blue where it plummets to it's maximum depth of 1300+ feet! the largest freshwater lake in the world; and the cleanest. if it was drained to a level of 5 feet, the water would cover the continental united states. it is truly majestic and powerful; in winter the waves can reach 30 feet high.
i recommend this humbling experience of a trip to anyone!
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