Lighthouses & Falls, Duluth to Wisconsin

 Thursday, June 9th

We drove in to Duluth to go to the Lake Superior Maritime Museum. I got a bonus on lighthouses. 3 of them right there. This one is my favorite, Superior Entry Lighthouse.

This one is North Breakwater Lighthouse.

This one is South Breakwater.

We watched the bridge lift up for a big tour boat.

What a cute little tugboat boat!

Lake Superior

The Museum Exhibits.

A sample of a few ship cabins

There are 2 narrow canals in the harbor.

Inside, one of the displays was the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Do you remember the Gordon Lightfoot song of the same name? The song was done in 1976.

There was another of many crashes of ships & this one was on a clear day.

After lunch we headed for Wisconsin. My original plan was to go to Wisconsin Dells & ride a duck boat. We were also going to go to see where my Dad's side of the family, the Clark's  ended up after Connecticut & Massachusetts. I would have loved to see where they lived. Since we have to get home, we are settling for the upper west of Wisconsin across Lake Superior from Duluth.

We went to Amnicon Falls & are staying overnight. I figured that would be enough to earn a place on my map.

Upper Amnicon Falls

Lower Amnicon Falls behind us.

Now & Then Falls. They must disappear in the summer!

We had a beautiful private campsite but I forgot to take a picture. We ate outside again & weren't too bothered by bugs.

Friday June 10th.

This was basically a travel day. We stopped at a gorgeous town called Park Rapids, MN for a picnic. The lake was on both sides of the park.

I couldn't resist taking a pic of giant Paul Bunyan!

Another stop for laundry & another pizza night at Godfathers.

We stayed at a campground in Detroit Lakes, MN. I swear it seems like every town has it's own Lake. This is the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" After all!