July, 15, 2012

We got up at 3:30 am and could see the Northern Lights.  We got in the Silverado and drove outside of town beyond the city lights and stood on the side of the road and watched them and the Moon-Venus-Jupiter conjunction.  The lights were awesome - fast moving flashes, rays, and waves covering most of the sky. We went back to bed around 4:45 am.  We slept until almost 9 am.  We left camp and drove east to Munising, Michigan.  On the way we stopped at Ishpeming and shared a beer at Jasper Ridge Brewery.  In the parking lot using Jim’s phone I found a geocache in an old ore mine rail car while Jim watched my purse in the bar.

We got a site at Tourist Park Campground in Munising, a city park right on Lake Superior.  We are one camping site off the lake.  There is a tent by us.  The sun was shining and there is supposed to be some rain for the next two days.  Jim got on line and booked us a sunset boat tour of Pictured Rocks at 7:30 pm.  When we got to the boat dock around 6:15 it had clouded up and fog had started to roll in.  We rescheduled the trip for tomorrow at 2 pm.  If it is raining or foggy we will reschedule again.

We found a geocache across the road from camp and two of them in town.  After rescheduling the boat tour we went for a beer at a local pub.  We were the only ones in there and had a nice visit with the bartender.  We went back to camp and I fixed dinner and we sat outside at the picnic table.  You can’t see the lake because of the fog.