Asphalt & Lake Tours

A bit breezy and brisk this morning as we started our road trip to Garden, Michigan.  Just outside of Garden is Fayette State Historic Park.  Back in the 1880's, Fayette was known as a company town producing iron.  The State Park finally bought Fayette in 1957 to preserve the buildings and land.
 

This is a shot of the foundry works which sits next to the water.  Ships used to dock directly in front of the foundry to load pig iron and then sail to ports in lower Michigan.  This town survived  in this industry for 20 years then became just a resort town before the State Park made the purchase.  

After touring the remains of Fayette, we hit the road again.  On the quest to see the famous Pictured Rocks from the lake.  We drove back to Munising and purchased our tickets.  The tickets were only half price since we would only be seeing The Castle due to all the icebergs still in the lake!  We decided to go anyway; the sun was shining and the wind very calm.

As with all cruises, we start with safety!  This is one of our guides on the boat demonstrating how to choke yourself with a lifevest.  

This is pretty much what we saw on our cruise.  We were not able to make the Castle due to the ice pack!  According to the crew, this is really unusual for the ice to last this long.  The cruise company did refund our tickets.  This means that the Pictured Rocks are on the "Come Back" list!

The view from our campsite - Lake Superior with icebergs!  Waiting for another magnificient sunset on the lake.