More Scenes from Sleeping Giant

After we went out on the Thunder Bay Lookout we walked the short Thunder Bay Bogs Nature Trail.

I was hoping to see some carnivorous plants but I didn’t. There was lots of lichen,

some lowbush blueberries,

and this strange fungus.

It was a very moosey looking place, but still no moose.

We stopped at two other pretty little lakes,

under increasing clouds,

and returned in a downpour.

Our doorstep had become a tiny lake.

Yesterday we hiked along Joe Creek.

We went the short distance to Lake Superior…

although the trail all but disappeared before we got there.

We drove back to the far end of the peninsula to hike Cemetery Trail. Most of the graves in the cemetery, which was used from 1868 to 1937, had wooden markers and wooden picket fences. There was not much left.

This is the only stone I saw. It says “Kelly Ann McLean, Feb 10, 1872, Aged 10 Days” How sad.

When we left the trail we drove a mile or so on to the little community of Silver Islet. This is all scrunched up between the rocks…

and the lake.

Although the road makes a loop here it is a two way road.

Lots of pretty little houses.

Lots of summer people and traffic.

A very slow go through the little town.

This place was for sale but it didn’t entice me. Interestingly I saw a house with McLean on the sign outside. Perhaps descendants of the family that lost little Kelly Ann.

Sleeping Giant is a lovely park…

with a beautiful Visitors Center, but now it’s time to move along.