Guardian of Lake Superior

Back in early April, there was still plenty of snow on the non-beach areas at Calumet Waterworks Park, with some snow and ice still on the beach. I took some pictures of different things, then decided to sit down on a huge log that had washed up on the beach.
I took our [...]

Lake Superior Dog to the Driftwood Rescue!

Humans aren’t the only ones that enjoy wading/swimming in Lake Superior. Our dog likes it too!
Here he is playing some fetch with a piece of driftwood. You can just smell the wet dog :-)

Our dog isn’t a complete water dog, though. He will only wade in the water and will not swim. [...]

Swimming in Lake Superior

Today’s picture is again from this past weekend’s adventure at McLain. We decided to walk down the beach heading towards Calumet. I turned around and caught some people “swimming” in the lake and snapped a pic. I say “swimming” because only one person was brave enough to go in the water all [...]

The Invasion of the Black Flies

On Saturday, we spent the day along the western side of the Keweenaw peninsula with our end destination being Copper Harbor. We know that June can be a bad month for black flies (or biting flies as they are also called). Every year we forget exactly how bad they can be.
Our stops along [...]