Whitefish Point

We continued our travels north on Tuesday driving 200 miles to St. Ignace. Driving over that huge bridge was an adventure, specially since it is under construction, and we only had one lane with trucks coming towards us in what is supposed to be our left lane. Doug did a great job getting the rig across. I was a little bit nervous in my car and did not get to see to much of the humongous lake that we were crossing, but it was also grey and foggy when we got there.

I was not to worried, since I thought that Wednesday was supposed to be a nice day to go to Mackinaw Island and would admire the bridge then. We got settled in at the Lakeshore Campground and the rain started. It pretty much rained all night and was still raining in the morning. There was no sense in going on a boat to go to the island in that weather, and therefore you will not see any pictures of the big bridge, since I never got to see it without drizzling rain and fog.

So we decided to outran the rain and went north to Whitefish Point Lighthouse. Driving through the UP is just awesome. It is hard to explain, but it is just such a beautiful area to drive through. Donna and Grant told us that it would be worth it to go see the Whitefish Point Lighthouse and they were absolutely correct.


We both like lighthouses and have spent a lot of time on the east coast checking them out. This one is pretty cool too. It has so much history of all these boats that sank around this area and the huge glass lens in the museum was totally cool.


We went onto the beach to check out Lake Superior. We have reached a milestone! We have now seen all five of the great lakes and they are all huge.

It was still early enough in the day to drive over to Sault St. Marie. We took the scenic route and Doug found this little beach area along the drive. Lake Superior is huge.