Tahquamenon Falls and Pictured Rocks

The Upper Peninsula is an amazingly wild and natural area of Michigan.  It even has a population of gray wolves, bears,  and cougars.  Mario spent a couple of summers studying up here while at the U of M and majoring in forestry.  It is on Lake Superior....aka Gitche Gumee. One of the places we visited while there is the Tahquamenon Falls, the second highest and third largest in volume falls east of the Mississippi.  

Mario's "dorm" with 2 other students while studying here!!

Also while in the U.P. we took a lovely boat cruise on Lake Superior, which is a little larger than South Carolina and is the largest fresh water lake by area in the world.  It truly is like an ocean.  It contains enough water to cover the whole United States at five feet deep.   
The boat cruise took us to another amazing site....Pictured Rocks National Lake Shore.  It is 15 miles of colorful sandstone cliffs and caves and arch formations.