Summer 2022: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

The forest yielded just a few brighly colored fungi

Shallow rivers seemed to be the norm

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Swans are a rare treat. We found this pair and their cygnet at an inland lake.

Whitecapped waves splash on the shorline at the cloudy start of the day

Spray Falls releases its water directly into Lake Superior

Chapel Rock is an oddity. An archway once connected the rock to the mainland, but it collapsed some time in the 1940s. Fortunately the white pine’s roots held fast, and so it survives to today.

Chapel Creek is surprisingly warm – so warm that swimmers can swim beyond its mouth in the normally frigid Lake Superior – even on a clool, cloudy day. (Sorry for the tourists.)

The shoreline here is rugged

Below Grand Portal Point is an impressive arch, oddly containing what must be rather recent debris.

I have never seen such large holes in a tree before. What would cause that? One in our group thought it was due to a piliated woodpecker, but I wonder.