Saturday, May 31, 2008

May 4 Road Tour of Keweenaw Peninsula

Here it is, mid-Sunday morning and the sun is glinting through the clouds. Time to make a trip the 50 + miles, roundabout to Copper Harbor....


Time to visit pocket parks by the shores of Superior and laze around in the chilly northern air with our parkas zipped up. Finding caddis fly larva in their sand-rough shells on the copper colored rock pools on the shore. A good sign of pure water.



A wonderful time to visit the waterfall running into iced-up Lac La Belle with its full spring runoff flow ...


Let's go up to the top of the Keweenaw's hawk mountain, Brockway Mountain to watch the spring migration of raptors soar on the thermals. Here the trees are squat and stunted, thick and sitting low to the mountain with the wind and snow pruning them there. When the sun shows through and heats the basalt cliffs, the hawks, eagles, falcons, vultures and ravens soar high in unison in the firmament.


Let's hike and beach comb around Hunter's Point , making like joyful tourists on a holiday, taking nothing but pictures: of a water spirit Misshepezhieu, created a million years ago in volcanic basalt of quartz, breathing a fire of and outlined in copper-colored deposits.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Yes, it is rock dragon natural pictograph!