Next on the trip agenda was to head further east and check out Tahquamenon Falls. It's a 50 ft drop and about 3-4 times as wide. This thing dumps a lot of water in a hurry. After that it was off to the lighthouse and beautiful beach at Whitefish Point. 17 miles offshore from here, the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew rest on the bottom of the mighty lake.
After some beach strolling and ice cream eating it was time to make our way towards Grand Marais and the Grand Sable dunes area. Our original route was to take a series of gravel back roads. As we began this excursion we found ourselves getting deeper and deeper in sand and logging traffic to the point where it was no longer fun, even on an "adventure bike". After a brief talk with a logger who informed us that the road got much worse up ahead, we turned around and headed back to the tar route.
The tar detour got us into Grand Marais an hour later than we had planned but still plenty of time to hit the Lake Superior Brewery for some Pizza before heading out to see the dunes.
The Grand Sable dunes stretch for 5 miles and drop 300 ft to the shore of Lk Superior. Around the turn of the century, trees were harvested on top and the logs were slid down the face of the dunes to barges waiting down below. I wonder if the workers at the bottom got any hazard pay compensation?
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| That's some beautiful water |
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| It doesn't look that bad here but it got a lot worse in short order. |
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| Au Sable Falls |
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| Grand Sable Dunes |
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| More fun than the sand road |
