Labor Day I’ll be starting an 11 day trout fishing and relaxation trip to the Driftless Area.
I won’t be updating this blog anymore. Usually I have a weak signal. At times I spend an hour or two creating and posting. Perhaps at the end of a trip I’ll post the whole trip.
Left Cornucopia and drove mostly west to Superior Wisconsin where I had lunch with an old workmate I hadn’t seen in around 10 years and then headed home.
Drove west along the shoreline to Cornucopia, Wisconsin where I visited a friend I went to college with from 1970 to 1972. Hadn’t seen him in 46 years.
This morning I started driving west and northwest along the Upper Peninsula Lake Superior Shoreline passing through Munising, Marquette, Houghton, and Copper Harbor.
Found a beautiful private campground facing west on the shore of Lake Superior called Sunset Bay Campground.
The Mackinac Bridge goes from St Ignace in the Upper Peninsula south to Mackinaw City in Lower Michigan.
Got it straight, Mackinac Bridge, Mackinac Island, and Mackinaw City.
At the end of the bridge in Mackinaw City is a state park.
There are many ferries running to and from Mackinac Island from several locations. I left from Mackinaw City.
Mackinac Island Harbor 
Mackinac Island is beautiful with beautiful hotels, inns, large and small homes. No vehicles are allowed. There are thousands of bicycles and I don’t know how many carriages and horses.
It’s about a mile walk to The Grand Hotel.
From this point on and to enter is a $10 fee
The town is a beautiful tourist trap kinda like a Key West or Charleston South Carolina of the north. Shop after shop, particularly fudge shops.
When my ferry was leaving I counted 6 ferries actively entering or leaving the small harbor.
Three in one frame
Drove from Milwaukee to my campground, Lake Michigan Campground at St. Ignace, which is on the north shore of Lake Michigan about 10 miles northwest of St. Ignace, Michigan. St. Ignace is in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Mackinaw City is Lower Michigan which I’ve seen referred to as The Mitt. The Mackinac Bridge connects the two.
Lake Michigan at my campground. Very windy.
Drove north an hour and a half to Whitefish Point. To the west of Whitefish Point is 200 miles of the main body of Lake Superior. 
To the southeast of Whitefish Point is Whitefish Bay. You can see a large freighter in the distance.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was hoping to get to and around Whitefish Point to get out of the storm and large waves of the main body of Lake Superior and make it to the relatively safe waters of Whitefish Bay.
There is a large Lighthouse, Coast Guard Station, Museum at the point. It doesn’t appear to be in use but is beautifully maintained.
Pretty sure I’ll be taking a week long trip across The Michigan Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin starting this coming Sunday. Tentative plan is to spend a couple of days camped a little north of The Mackinaw Bridge, cross Mackinaw Bridge, and go to Mackinac Island. After a couple of days I’ll go west to hopefully see a very old friend in Cornucopia Wisconsin and a friend in Superior Wisconsin.
Just got home. Another beautiful day but my time was up.
As strange as it sounds, the weather is too perfect for trout fishing. Middle of July, sun beating straight down, no clouds isn’t good for fishing. I know where the fish are but can’t get at them. One of the things done to improve a stream is to create undercut banks. That’s where the fish are on a sunny cloudless day.
I was standing in this spot tying a fly on, getting ready to fish the shady area when a branch about 10 feet long fell out of the tree on the right, exactly where I was going to fish. That’s a no-shitter.
Caught two brown trout this morning while fishing Timber- Coulee. Maybe one 12″ and one 14″.
Then it got very windy.
You have to be able to fly fish in the wind but when it’s so windy the trees are bending it’s difficult. That’s one of the best things about retirement. I can fish tomorrow.
