Day 30 - Wednesday, July 8 - Last Day on the Keweenaw Peninsula

It rained last night and some this morning. I'm still not up to snuff so we postponed going to Copper Harbord until next year. We were up there two years ago.

Kathy went to Walgreen's and picked up some pain meds for me and while she was out she bought a pasty for our lunch. People talked about how great they are and we tried them 4 or 5 years ago. The ones we had were NASTY. So many people keep talking about how good they are so we decided to give them another try, glad we did. This one was good.

We just hung around the campground the remainder of the day. Kathy sat outside for hours. I was out for an hour or so in the evening.

I walked the trash down to the dumpster and walked around so that I could take a photo of the Chutes and Ladders playground down at the beach.

Kathy knew I was interested in seeing the bridge go up and let me know that it was being raised. The photo below shows the bridge in it's normal summer position. Prior to 1982 when there was still rail traffic across the bridge it was lowered so that the blue truss sections lined up. Vehicle traffic went across the top and rail traffic went across the bottom. In that position there was only 4' of clearance between the bottom of the bridge and the water. That is still the winter position and snowmobiles use the bottom.

This is the partially raised position, enough to get the current boat under it. In the fully raised position there is 100' of clearance under it.

Still maybe an hour until sundown when I took this photo. It was cool enough that we headed back into the coach. 

This is the boat in the photo above. I'm not sure why we didn't investigate a dinner cruise on the river. I'm glad we weren't on one this evening. It would have been cold out on the water.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He has blessed me.