Nomad exploring life wherever I am
Once more on this Great Lakes tour, I had a chance to get out on the water. No, not in those little kayaks, but as a passenger on a catamaran cruise up the coast of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Well worth the 80 miles round-trip driving to Munising and back and the $48 cruise ticket because you get to see rocks and cliffs like this.
Late one day at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, I decided to watch the sunset, from start to finish. I walked down the beach till I found a nice big rock that made a comfortable bench, dug my toes into the warm sand, and settled in to watch the show. 9:12 PM This far north, the sunsets come late in July. It’s after 9PM and the sun isn’t even close to the horizon yet. I wait, though. I have nothing but time and patience this evening.
Picking a campground in a place I haven’t been can be a lesson in serendipity. Sometimes, the campground is closer to a highway than I thought, with the accompanying traffic noise. As soon as I pulled into the Hurricane River lower campground and looked left to see Lake Superior, I knew this place was a winner. I backed into my site, quickly set up the basics, and then headed down to the shore. Oh, my…
With this set, I have passed the halfway point of 2021 challenges without missing a one. Which kind of surprises me, since some weeks the challenge theme was far from my favorite thing to photograph. But still, I persisted. So, without further ado, here’s four more weeks… Week 26: Breathe The theme of “Breathe” could mean whatever you wanted, and it didn’t take me too long to figure out that to me, it meant being back near water after a few months away from it. When I spent my first morning at Indiana Dunes walking on the beach, I knew…
Twelve hours. That’s all it took for Antietam (pronounced an-TEE-a-tam) to become the bloodiest one-day battle in the Civil War and in American history. On this field, on September 17, 1862, nearly 100,000 soldiers joined in battle, with 22,717 of them killed, wounded, or missing by end of day.