July 9th, 2005
We stopped in Grand Marais, Minnesota for about two and a half hours.
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The harbor of Grand Marais, a very, very quaint town. |
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The lighthouse in Grand Marais. |
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We walked along a lovely path out to the lighthouse. |
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The water is SOOOOOOOO clear. |
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Grand Marais is one of the most scenic towns we visited.
Plus, we happened to arrive in the middle of a local art fair. |
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Nina posing in front of Lake Superior. |
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Wonderful little tidal pools. |
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A close-up of the lighthouse. |
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A loon up close!! |
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One of the more modern lighthouses..... |
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Chris was thrilled to find a Swedish pizza
restaurant (what are the odds... his two favorite things in one place....). |
Our next stop was the Split Rock lighthouse.
| This was a truly breathtaking lighthouse perched precariously on a cliff. |
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| A view of the cliffs surrounding the lighthouse. |
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| We drove along terrain like this from Thunder Bay to Duluth!! |
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| Gorgeous!!!!! |
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| Aren't we cute? |
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| An up close view of the lighthouse. |
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| The lighthouse and the lighthouse museum. |
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| Ahhhhhhhhhh........ breathtaking............... |
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| Nina in front of her favorite East Coast tourist attraction... lighthouses!!!! |
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Gooseberry Falls was just a few miles down the road.
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The Gooseberry Falls was simply one waterfall
after another.....
the upper, middle and lower falls. |
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The falls had plenty of room for cooling off! |
Two Harbors was also having an art fair and therefore a madhouse but we stopped for a few minutes anyway.
| This is a gargantuan iron ore dock where they
would load boats full of ore and send them off to smelting plants. |
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| The Two Harbors lighthouse. |
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| A historic old tugboat in front of the iron ore docks. |
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And finally to Duluth.
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The Duluth lighthouses side by side. |
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The Duluth drawbridge. |
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A traditional black and white lighthouse. |
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The "house" style lighthouse. |
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The water
front of Duluth. We walked along the ENTIRE water front
in search of an old Viking ship, which when we finally found it, was covered for renovation. |
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We went for a romantic horse drawn carriage ride along the water front. |
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That's one BIG horse!!! |
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Surprisingly, Duluth is a bit like San Francisco.... the streets go straight up and down.... |
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For a large city, Duluth is very beautiful. |
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Very nice................ |
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The front end of our once shiny new car saw some SERIOUS BUGS!!!! |