Silverman Loc: Michigan

On the shores of Lake Superior, near Brimley Michigan.

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BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Nice shot.

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Nice shot.

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

Nice shot. Isn't that Gitche Gumee?

Silverman Loc: Michigan

Yes, in the song about the sinking of the Great Lakes Freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald, they refer to the Indian name for Lake Superior as "Gitche-Gumee" (not sure about spelling.)

I cannot remember the famous singer/song-writer who wrote and sang that song.(Help-please.)

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

I like it.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Gordon Lightfoot, "the wreck or the Edmond Fitzgerald" wonderful song. as a former Yooper, I pull my LP out every year at the anniversary and play it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very good shot.

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

Yes, but let's not forget about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose poem "Song of Hiawatha" put that name on the map in the first place.

copladocus

What, nobody swimming in the lake photo??? When I was a kid we took a big loop around Lake Michigan and then across the Mackinaw bridge to the UP. I was a swimming fool and was all excited to get to swim in Lake Superior! I mean I was motivated. I fancied myself a young Mike Nelson from the TV show "Sea Hunt" and had my mask and fins in hand. I kept bugging my Dad about it and how it was going to be so fantastic. I remember commenting to him as to why all the motels had swimming pools with this great lake right at their doorstep. Fools I thought. So after the family was firmly ensconced in a motel room Dad followed me down to the beach for my inaugural swim in the lake. Now you must understand this was mid-summer and it was hot out. I noted a few other things in my rush to the water. First, I was the only person in swim shorts (and gear)and second, the beach was not my expected sand but rather very smooth rocks and pebbles. Folks, I got about knee deep in that water before it dawned on me that the water was cold. By cold I mean ice cold. Being bull-headed I waded in deeper until my unmentionables convinced me that further exposure was a very bad idea. I know inside my dad was laughing his ass off but he simply handed me a towel, my shoes and took me back to the motel and that ridiculous swimming pool...

Scruffy Loc: North Ridgeville

Thanx for the U-Tube link. The roll call at the end was very touching. As a fellow U.P.'er (Iron Mountain), I follow the same tradition that you mentioned every Nov.10th.

Silverman Loc: Michigan

Swimming from this beach is fantastic, shallow quite a ways out, but water is chilly, even in July & August, From this beach you will view every Great Lakes Freighter coming in from Lake Superior on the way to the famous Soo Locks, and every ship coming from those same Soo Locks on it's way out into Lake Superior. The 1000 footers are amazing to watch, now they have bigger one too.

gregoryd45 Loc: Fakahatchee Strand

Very nice, Silverman

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

When I lived in Marquette MI. everyone went swimming where the hot water mixed with the lake water at the power plant near Presque Isle. Other than there, it was way too cold to swim.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Beautiful area. Separated from the main land by the Mackinac Bridge. Yoopers live above the bridge and trolls live below it.
--Bob