The next place we went to see was up by Grand Marais, another place we haven’t been to in a very long time. We have both always liked to visit Lake Superior. It is the closest thing you’ll come to seeing an ocean up north.

The place we stayed at was called Lamb’s resort. It had great reviews and was pretty close to Grand Marais, plus it was on the water. You have to make your reservations over the phone each year, no electric stuff for them.

It was really foggy our first day. Here is what we could see from our site

On a clear day you could see forever, just not so much today.

We went down by the shore, which was just a short walk away

You couldn’t see much but we brought our chairs, had an after dinner drink and listened to the water lap on the shore. Aaaah. So relaxing.

There were several options for meals where we stayed so Gary missed out on the gourmet stuff. Where you entered the campsite, off the highway, there was a little restaurant. They had coffee and sweet rolls for breakfast. They even had lunch AND dinner. One night we ordered their pizza for dinner, very good, just the right size and a good value. We decided we wanted to spread the wealth as far as eating out so we went to another restaurant down the road a ways. It was really different. We were very confused as to what we should be doing to get fed there. You walk in and have to order your food, get your own coffee and then they bring the food to your table. Kind of like Culver’s, except the food was fancier. They could of used a little more signage so us old people knew what they expected of us. But we muddled thru, placed our order, got our coffee and found a table. The food that arrived was a little too foo-foo for us and they were sure proud of themselves by the prices they charged. Let’s just say we decided to go to the little place that was closer to the campsite for any more breakfasts

Because it was a little foggy the next day, we decided to check out the State park that was real close to us. As a matter of fact, you can see where we were last night from the park

This looks so close but when you go by foot, it is quite the walk. There was a cool trail to get down here

This is after you get down the trail. You can tell it had been a dry summer by how low this stream is.

We saw a nun out on vacation

That might be a priest but I couldn’t see if he had a collar on. I guess they are entitled to a little vacation too after having to deal with all us sinners.

We found this campsite by the loading ramp

Where it was clearly marked no over night camping

Ok, so you can’t afford to pay the camping fee

At least don’t trash the area. What a bunch of pigs

But we didn’t let them spoil our walk

I saw this sign….but I didn’t see any place to rest nor anyone doing their business in the woods. Rebels that we are, we just ignored it and kept walking up the path past the sign.

Love it!

That night, after dinner, we went back down to the “beach”. Look! Someone’s going swimming!

You brave little devil you. We also saw this ginormous Airdale, or something

And that was no short person. He was a very well behaved doggie.

The next morning we went into Grand Marais. Here is the first hotel Gary and I stayed at

Still there, just looking a little rough. This restaurant

which was closed this visit, was where we waited for my big brother to come get us when we were on a snowmobiling trip one year. Our tow vehicle ended up in the ditch by where we were staying. They over plowed the roads up there and while we thought we were just pulling off the road, we actually drove into the ditch! Oh what a trip that was.

The Blue Water Cafe didn’t have any kind of entertainment but what they did have was a TV that had like a slide show of old pictures on it. Kids now a days would be thoroughly board. We found it fascinating.

The one “trading post” that was there a long time ago is still there, right by here

Always loved this spot. It is even cool in the winter when you come and the lake is frozen and the rocks are covered in ice from the last storm that blew in. We did have to take a look inside the “Trading Post” and you can’t leave without buying something so I bought

I have some sharp knives at home that don’t slice into my fingers anymore so I figured they must need to be sharpened. Although once I used it, I figured I should have gotten the bigger one because with hands that are going to s***, this small thing is hard to hold tight. Man, it sucks getting old, but hey, I’m still able to spook around so I can’t complain too much.

Outside the store was this Covid reminder

I thought that was pretty cute.

After we checked out the store we did some more exploring. We saw these two house boats in the bay

I think the first one they started out with canoes. Neither of them look like anything I’d want to take out on Superior unless it looked like glass and even then, there better not be any wind

That night we enjoyed one last look at the lake

and I already have a note to call on January 2nd for a reservation next year.