It was a rainy day today. The rain started and stopped all morning. About 3PM it started RAINING and the wind blew. The dirt/gravel area on the right is the drive to our campsite. I took this photo out of the drivers side window, during one of the times the rain almost stopped. It mostly stopped around 7PM.
There are tent campers at several sites. At 10PM the temperature is 66 and the humidity is 97%. The overnight low is supposed to be 61.
Over the past 14 years we have been in the UP a total of 5 times; 2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 & 2024. Today I made my 4th visit to the Michigan Iron Industry Museum. This year was the first year that I walked the boardwalk that overlooks the site of the first commercial forging operation in the UP, on the Carp River. The first iron was made there on February 10, 1848.
The boardwalk starts at the back side of the museum and runs up the hill. It includes several switchbacks as it climbs up the hill. The photo below is looking down the boardwalk from the top of it. I'm not sure where this path goes, maybe an exploration to be made the next time I visit.
The photo below was taken from the end of the boardwalk in the photo above. It looks down on an observation area that the boardwalk leads to. Off the top left of the observation area is a ramp leading down to the museum.
According to oral tradition the Ojibwe, Odawa (Ottawa) and Potawatomi people say their ancestors all migrated to the upper Great Lakes region. These groups spoke a common language and shared beliefs and customs. They called themselves the Anishnabeg, "original man".
The text alongside this picture says, "By 1800 Ojibwe lands encircled Lake Superior. The Odawa called Michigan's northwestern Lower Peninsula their homeland. The Potawatomi inhabited the Lake Michigan shoreline of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and southwest Michigan.
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