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| After a few household chores we head out to Wisconsin Point and the Superior Entry which is the only natural opening in the longest sandbar in the world...a 500 ft channel is now maintained by the US Army Corp of Engineers...currents here can reach 3 miles per hour... Iron ore was first shipped through here in 1893 and it is still one of the main cargoes of this busy port area..... It is also the most westerly point of the St Lawrence Seaway and still a very major port, huge silos and tankers......... |
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| Superior Entry Lighthouse built in 1913..... |
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| We have seen a few bald eagles soaring but not been able to catch one on "film" but managed to snap this float plane soaring over Lake Superior.... Talking of film, one of the local grocery stores advertised that they develop film...Those were the days !! |
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| I might have commented before about the amount of wild flowers we have seen in these northern areas....also a lot of wild raspberries...these were near the long beach at Wisconsin Point..... |
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| From Superior we cross the bridge into Minnesota and the large port city of Duluth... The lighthouse at Canal Park....as well as being a very busy port area it is a very popular tourist area with parks, aquarium and museums.... The Army Corps of Engineers Museum was really interesting...in the early 1900's most of the canals and works on the Great Lakes such as the Soo Locks were carried out by the Corps... |
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| I'm in heaven !!! Twin water-towers..... |
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| Thursday 21st July... We were awoken at 3 am this morning by a huge storm, continual lightening and thunder, torrential rain and high winds.....but all ok here apart from one of our outside chairs made a bid to escape !!... Not so in Duluth and other towns and areas in Minnesota....we hadn't realised until we drove over to the Mall in Duluth this morning that the whole city was with out power...we did wonder why the traffic lights were not working though !!! Luckily we had been sheltered in Superior by hills of Duluth.... We had come over to visit Verizon to check our the problem with our jetpac but of course nothing they could do without power, we'll sort it at our next stop near Bemidji... |
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| This is the bridge we shall use tomorrow when we head west on the US2 to Mahnomen, Minnesota.... |
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| Some of the huge store areas in the Port of Superior.... Blue skies today after last night's storm although it is hot and humid of course... We move on again tomorrow to north western Minnesota to visit Itasca State Park and the headwaters of the Mississippi... For now it's bye bye from.. The Not So Soggy Campers.... |
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