Driving

Today was our hiking and waterfall exploration day. There are 20 waterfalls very close to Munising, some very close to the road, and some involving hiking. We did two quick visits in the morning, to Alger Falls and Wagner Falls, both very close to Munising and close to the road. Next we ventured 5 miles east to the Miners River. We hiked to Miners Falls, and got some nice pictures. Then we drove to Miners Castle, which we had seen from the water on yesterday...

We headed north from Mackinaw City towards Lake Superior. Had a nice winding, forested drive along the Superior coast to Munising, where we took a boat tour to the Pictured Rocks. On our 2.5 hour tour along cliffs over 150' tall, we saw rock caves, colourful displays caused by water flowing through the different minerals in the rocks, rock formations of all different shapes (it was fun describing the different ones we saw, because everyone saw the rocks differe...

We took our bikes with us on a ferry to Mackinac Island (same pronunciation as "Mackinaw", this is the French spelling). We started by cycling the 8-mile paved trail around the island, and scouted out some of the sites we wanted to view later. The trail was very flat and picturesque. We stopped for lunch in the lakeside village and shopped some of the stores. Very beautiful little village with lots of neat architecture and colours. After our tour, we got back on ...

We took a very pretty drive through the central part of northern Michigan, to Mackinaw City. We cycled through the town, then for a while on a Rails to Trails south of the city. We discovered a Dark Night Sky viewing area, overlooking Lake Michigan, on the west part of Mackinaw. We went for the sunset, but due to the "super moon", which was very bright, we didn't go back in the evening. We discovered that there are several more Dark Night Sky viewing areas in...