Michigan Trip Day #1
Saturday, August 30, 2025
This photo of Neenah, WI was actually taken on 8/29/25, but it was the only one for the day so we included it here.
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Some creative lawn ornamentation in Menominee, MI.
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Menominee North Pier Lighthouse.
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It was a beautiful day to walk the pier, but one can only imagine how inhospitable this would be during the winter storms. There are specifically warning signs to not walk out here during inclement weather. The body of water is Green Bay off of Lake Michigan.
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North Pier Lighthouse.
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Our next stop was Escanaba, MI, where we visited the Sand Point Lighthouse and Delta County Historical Society Museum.
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Furnishings on the inside of the lighthouse shows how it would have looked back in the day the lighthouse keeper and their family lived here.
This wood carving of a mother dog and her pups was made out of a single solid piece of wood.
The view from the top of the lighthouse.
Lisa posing with the fresnel lens. The fresnel lens is pronounced fray-NEL with a silent ‘s’.
Coast Guard rescue boat inside the adjacent boat house.
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The history museum had my first ever computer - the Radio Shack TRS-80! I loved this thing!! However, I don’t love that it is now an artifact in a history museum!!
This is the rudder from the sunken ship “Nahant,” it was raised on June 21, 1985 - eighty-eight years after it sank in approximately 20-feet of water.
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This is an image looking up the rocky coastline of Lake Superior toward the Marquette Harbor Lighthouse in Marquette, MI.
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The Lower Harbor Ore Dock in Marquette, MI. These loading docks were once used to dump iron ore into the freighters that work the Great Lakes.
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