Trip up North

This was my weekend off...wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...so Cecil and I decided we wanted to head up to the UP and get some photos of Tahquamenon Falls before they melted. I have been up there many times in the summer and wanted to see how it looked in the winter. I had heard it was just gorgeous, so I wanted to get some pics. Then we thought we might head over to a lighthouse near Brimley and get some photos of it covered in snow as well. It seemed at first that our plans would be ruined because the weather was calling for it to warm up and rain on top of it. We decided to go anyway and hope for the best. By the time we got to Macinaw City, it was so foggy you could hardly see and so we ate breakfast and went on across the bridge, hoping for better weather when we got to the falls. A note here, I had never been to Macinaw City in the winter and was really surprised to see that 90% of the businesses were closed! I never knew that it was strictly open in the summer. As we crossed the bridge, I was looking down at the frozen Straits. The ice breaker had been thru the week before and you could see where they had made a path and it at frozen over again. It was something to see. I had hope to get a glimpse of the island but it was way too foggy. the fog stayed with up til a ways past Engandine but then it started to clear up. We stopped at the Upper Falls first . There were a ton of snowmobilers there..just taking a bathroom break i guess..lol...cause the gift shops etc werent open. We walked in to the falls and we could hear them but not as loudly as usual. We were hoping they were still frozen but they were partially thawed. It was an amazing sight! Very dramatic! The snow was up to the backs of the park benches and that was kind of cool. We went on to the Lower Falls only to find that we couldnt go see them. There wasnt a path plowed into them. Would have been a mile hike each way and we didnt have any snow shoes so it just wasnt possible. That was kind of a bummer but what ya gonna do...
We headed on over to Brimley to get some shots of the lighthouse there. We ended up taking a short detour over to Whitefish Point to get some shots of the lighthouse there too. If that name sounds familiar, think of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It went down not far from there. Also tried to get some "arty" lol..shots of the fog coming off Lake Superior where the snow was on it but they didnt come out real well.
Then we went off to Brimley to get our photos of the Iroquois Point lighthouse. Also got some shots of some snowmobile riders riding thier sleds across Lake Superior. On the way home, we wanted to get some photos of the bridge with the ice under it and maybe the lighthouse there at Macinaw City but the fog was still there. So off to home we went. Made it just in time to watch the hockey game, which we woudl have been better off not seeing..lol..
That was my Saturday..how was yours?



upper falls march7,2009


another shot of the falls


cecil at the falls

notice how deep the snow is.......

lighthouse at whitefish point


same lighthouse, different angle



also at whitefish point. notice how deep the snow
is on the walkway to the lake?


lighthouse at iriquois point near brimley, mi


the tower at brimley



snowmobile on lake superior