Sunday, August 4, 2013

COPPER HARBOR JULY 30

Tour of the Keweenaw

First, Estivant Pines, just east and up the mountain from
 Copper Harbor
 Story of the Pines
 Trail to the Pines
Some of these trails I'll tell ya... Wet and buggy
 Which way?......The Shortest!
 Cool Fungi
 OK, I'll come only up to you and then, I'm going back!
 300 year old White Pines
 Ok where's the trail markers?

 Fitting inside a tree cross section
Rings 400 years old
 Miners Falls




 We drive south along the lake to Eagle Harbor


 Eagle Harbor



 Eagle Harbor Lighthouse
 Blasted the reef of rock making an enterance for the Harbor



 Russian Orthodox Church
 Eagle River Falls
 Eagle River
 Downtown Calumet, MI
The center of the Copper Boom,
now a Historic National Park
 Mostly red sandstone buildings quarried nearby
 Main Street

 Firehouse
 Catholic Cathedral
 Stopped at this roadside park for a picnic
sampling our first pastie.



Beautiful Spot

Tomorrow--Christmas, Michigan

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