We are heading west along the Michigan shore of Lake Superior. It's hard to think of this as a lake...it just looks exactly like an ocean shore line, but the water is fresh and crystal clear. Oh yeah it's about 45 degees too so as inviting as it looks I don't think we'll be doing any swimming. Dropped into a campground in Ishpeming and checked out this old mining town from the 1800's and the lake port of Marquette from about the same time frame. They have a thing here called “ore docks”. The lake freighters, 1000 feet in length, pull in with a load of coal for the electric power plant. The freighters self unload the coal with conveyors and then reload with iron ore pellets brought in by train. The trains back in on these high rise docks and chutes located under the train cars lower down into the ship hold and the iron falls with a roar. We were fortunate that a ship was at the dock. It's quite the thing to witness and we must have been there for over an hour. One of those things you have to witness in person to get the full effect.
No comments:
Post a Comment