A-yup. Ah'm a'campin.'
Rock and trees on the Baptism river.
Friday. Part of the lower falls on the Baptism River.
More Baptism River.
The mini waterfall on the Baptism.
It was grey and overcast when we drove up on Friday, but Saturday was nothing but sun!
I love birch trees! They're tall and slender and everywhere!
Some cool tree 'shrooms. Cori was reminded of some of the forest trees from Princess Mononoke.
On Saturday Cori and I hiked a nice loop (about 7 miles) that took us back to Nipisiquit Lake and Mic Mac Lake. Here we are at Nipisiquite Lake.
Saturday, Mik Mac Lake. Taken from the boat dock at Tettegouche Camp. You couldn't have asked for a more perfect day.
Off of Mic Mac Lake is the restored turn-of-the-century Tettegouche Camp. The park was originally owned by a logging company, and this was one of their camps. The DNR has restored some of the original buildings and rebuilt these cabins here for people to rent and stay in. It's situated deep in the woods off the lake, so it's pretty isolated and very tranquil. I wonder how much it costs for a night?...
Tettegouche Camp - this is the old barn.
Shed next to the barn.
Cori models the latest in Keebler Cracker Technology on the boat dock at the Tettegouche Camp.
Mic Mac Lake.
This isn't so obvious in the captured image, but this single bright red leaf laying among a sea of green ones caught my eye on the trail on our way back to camp. The sun was hitting the leaf just right to brighten it up a little and my range of motion for taking the picture was limited.
Saturday, one of the various lookouts along our hike. This is looking west, away from the lake, across the Sawtooth mountains.
Another lookout, this time, east, toward Lake Superiour.
The Wild Cori attacks only when provoked.
We had a cute little rabbit friend all weekend.
He didn't want to eat our food - apparently he just liked our company, as he only seemed to appear when we were around the campsite.
Before we left on Sunday, we hiked the short loop that goes out to Shovel Point. Though I've been to the north shore a lot and am pretty familiar with it, we decided to camp at Tettegouche because it was the park I was least familiar with. Turns out it has some of the most diverse and interesting geology, terrain, and animal life in the area. Lots of unique and interesting stuff that you don't see so much of in the other parks.
On our way to Shovel Point. A nice rock arch and cave off to the right, all slowly and deliberately carved over thousands of years by the waters of Lake Superior.
Sunday, out on Shovel Point. This is a good example of the unique rhyolite type of volcanic rock that is more concentrated at Tettegouche than the other north shore state parks (it's the red-ish rock).
We ended our trip on Sunday with a late lunch at Betty's Pies, just outside of Silver Bay, right next to the Stewart River. I've been camping up north almost every year of my life, but this was the first time I'd ever been to Betty's. Cori had rasberry-rhubarb and I had pecan. Cori: "Why are you wasting my time with more pictures?! I want pie!"