Menominee to Eqoufette

From Menominee Michigan to Eqoufette Michigan
Today I left the lovely little park in Menominee and headed to the north end of Lake Michigan. It is hard to comprehend for anyone coming from SC just how large these lakes are but I will try to give some concept of it. Lake Michigan is about 70 miles wide at any point so if you drove from Redlands to LAX that would be about how far you would have to go to cross the lake, and it is about 300 miles long so if again you left Redlands you could drive to just about San Francisco until you would drive the length of the lake.
That fact and there are five of these Great Lakes and Lake Michigan is not the largest but Lake Superior is makes this truly astounding.
The park I am in tonight is on the lake again and I now have a tree shaded space with a wonderful view. I had stopped at the top of a small cliff to look over this campground and just knew I had found a home for the night. The campground is not crowded as I suspect we are far away from any populated areas. Sault Ste. Marie is another 85 miles away and it is not considered a large city by any means.
Tomorrow is Labor Day but I think I will still try to go to Sault Ste. Marie to see the locks there and the museum. I was told by a local that they were probably open so I will take the chance even though the prudent thing would be to wait another day.
The terrain today was flat in driving although I hugged the western side of the lake and then the northern end. I am now in what they refer to as Upper Michigan. The farms grew smaller and then disappeared into forests with timber and logging and fishing being the main commercial interests here. The forests are of white birch, ash, some cedar, oak and evergreen. The trees are not the giants that we see on the western side of the country and the largest diameter seems to be about 24”. But it is nice to see the forests again.
Todays travel was only about 170 miles and I am getting spoiled with lounging around too much. Tomorrow will be wit hthe Jeep only as there is no reason to drag the RV all the way to the locks just to have a look see.
Well tonight is ravioli night and then take Scruffy for his nighttime stroll.
1 Typical terain
2 Northern part of Lake Michigan
3 Lake Michigan beach
4 Campground
5 Campsite