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This weekend's Touring, enjoy!
1)Point Iroquios Light Station: Purpose was to guide freighters between Whitefish Bay and the St. Mary's river to the Locks. Seven miles from the Whitefish bay light station in about 535 ft of water is where the famous Edmund Fitzgerald went down and lost the entire 19 crewmen back in 1975. That Lighthouse (Whitefish bay) is still in service and is the oldest in service lighthouse in the US. In 1919 the steamship Myron went down in the famous "November storms" by this light station. The light keeper would fish the "floaters" out of the water when they came ashore and the local undertaker would pay him 19 dollars a piece! A heck of a way to earn extra cash! Named after the western NY Iroquios Indian tribe who wanted to expand their trade routes and traveled the 400 miles west by canoe to set up camp and do battle with the local Indian tribe.
2) Same Light Station view from the beach
3) Same light station but from the top of the light tower. Three sets of steps..... The background view is Canada and if you look closely you can see the windmill farm on the horizon.
4) Shot of a freighter coming from the locks and making its way to Whitefish bay. That is the famous Mission Hill's observation point about 2-3 miles east of the Iriquios Light station up a single lane twisty dirt road! The Famous Mission hill Cemetery is across from the view point with some very OLD headstones dating back a few centuries
5) A shot of a Freighter making its way north to the locks from the salon window of the bus to give you a feel of what we see every time we sit on the couch and look out the curbside in the city RV park we are staying at.
6) Double rainbow for all the rainbow lovers. I'm still chasing that crazy leprechaun to make him give up his stash of loot!

Where we went to eat Pasties for Dinner at the suggestion of Jack. They are right across the street from SOO Locks Park in downtown Sault St. Marie........they were written up as having the best "upper pasties".......they did live up to their reputation!
http://www.franksplace-saultmi.com/