We went back to Kewadin Casino this morning. I took my camera in this time as there is some incredible artwork there. I wanted to share some of it with you.
Thought you might enjoy these. There were also baskets and other things behind glass and therefore hard to photograph.
Monday morning we got up bright and early to head to Sault Ste Marie, ON. It was only a 15 minute drive from the campground to the train station. Here is the train coming into the station.
The trees up here are closer to peaking. There are leaves of green, yellow, orange, and red everywhere.
Here we are.
The train took lots of turns.
Here we are going down 500 feet into the Agawa Canyon.
The canyon area is well groomed with picnic area.
There is an old souvenir car.
There is a high lookout platform but it was over 300 steps high so we stayed on the ground.
We had planned to walk to Otter Creek Waterfall but that trail and one other were closed due to the high rainfall last week. This is looking down at the Agawa River running through the canyon.
We were here an hour and a half to allow time for people to hike to the various places. Wayne and I took advantage of the stop to have lunch in the dinning car without worrying about our beverages splashing out.
We were able to see Bridal Veil Falls from the train as we headed back.
Here is some more of the beautiful color along the river.
This trestle on the right over the Montreal River is 130 ft. high and 1550 ft. long.
More color.
The leaves aren’t as pretty up close. The maples seem to provide the most color. As you can see they go from green to yellow to orange and finally to red.
We passed many lakes and rivers on the trip.
The scenery was awesome.
Wayne kept wishing he could fish the many rapids along the rivers.
This is Searchmont. It you look carefully you can see the ski slopes behind the building.
More color.
Going back toward the USA I was able to take a picture of the four US locks.
And here we are at customs.
I took over 300 pictures so there are only a few displayed here. For more pictures you can visit my Picasa Web Album at: http://picasaweb.google.com/marynelle/AgawaCanyonTourTrain?authkey=Gv1sRgCJXGq4WU37nnxwE&feat=directlink
We woke up to a beautiful day so we decided to drive to Munising, MI to take the Pictured Rocks boat tour. The drive up was beautiful and we saw evidence that the colors are really beginning to come out.
We got on a tour boat for the 2:00 sailing. You could see the colors peaking through on Grand Island across the bay.
The first part of the trip takes you out of the bay and into Lake Superior. This is the Miner’s Castle.
In this view you can see the observation deck on the back portion of the formation. There were people who had climbed up there.
We finally arrived at the Pictured Rocks. The “pictures” on the limestone cliffs were formed by water seeping through the rocks and the various ores scattered throughout. This one reminds me of an angel or a dragonfly—two of my favorite things.
There was an area with several hoodoos.
Here is a large area with several different colors.
This area is more browns and tans.
I see Indians in this mural.
The white, brown, and black streaks can lead the imagination to picture all kinds of things.
This is the pass-through at Lover’s Leap
I have no idea what made the horizontal stripes on this cliff at the base of Lover’s Leap.
This is a better view of the leaping platform.
Unsure of the name of this formation.
This is Indian Head.
This is called the Grand Portal. There was a collapse of some rocks in the past few years so you can no longer drive a small boat through it.
This is the backside of Grand Portal.
This was one of the many beautiful beaches that we went past. There were people who had hiked in on all of them.
This is Chapel Rock. Note the tall tree that is growing on top of the rock.
More beautiful cliffs.
The 2:00 tour goes to Spray Falls as a bonus. There were heavy rains recently so the falls were beautiful.
When you are on Lake Superior you can look towards Canada and see nothing but water.
On the return trip we got closer to the cliffs.
As we got back toward the dock we came close to the East Channel Lighthouse that was built in 1874. It has been adopted by the residents of the area and has undergone some restoration.
We stopped for dinner on the way back and I got to take a picture on some trees without being in a moving vehicle.
For more pictures of the trip go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/marynelle/PicturedRocks?authkey=Gv1sRgCJKp0q6NrcafTw&feat=directlink
While on this trip our Jeep turned 100000 miles.
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